Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EFPM908: Critical Reflection on Professional Practice

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Aims

The aim of this module is to enable you to reflect on your own development as an educator in relation to your professional learning and consider how that learning has impacted on your classroom practice. This module will introduce you to key theoretical perspectives on what it means to be a reflective practitioner and will provide you with an opportunity to create a portfolio of evidence demonstrating how your subject knowledge development has helped you to critically reflect on and revise your classroom practice.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here - you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. demonstrate conceptual understanding of the nature of critical reflection 2. reflect, with critical awareness, on your own professional practice 3. demonstrate self-direction and originality in collecting, categorising and reflecting on relevant evidence of your own professional learning
Discipline-Specific Skills	4. demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge in your subject area 5. review and evaluate critically how your MA academic study has impacted on your own professional practice through close analysis of practice and theory
Personal and Key Skills	6. make sound judgements based upon critical reflection 7. critically reflect on your own practice and discuss the implications for future practice

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

The primary aim of this module is to help you to construct and critically reflect on a portfolio of evidence in relation to your own professional practice. As such, most of the activities associated with this module relate to guided independent study. Whilst the precise contents of the syllabus may vary from year to year, guidance material will be available on the Exeter Virtual Learning Environment and will most likely contain resources designed to introduce you to:

The key principles of reflective practice
The reflective cycle and how that might be demonstrated in practice
How to identify an element of professional practice and link this to your ongoing professional development, particularly in relation to the development of your subject knowledge.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
5	294	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	5	5x 1hr online presentations which introduce and explore: a) The key principles of reflective practice and the reflective practice cycle b) How to construct a critical reflection on a portfolio
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	1	Tutor support (1 hour)
Guided Independent Study	7	Completion of reflective tasks included in the online presentations
Guided Independent Study	60	Reading of academic and professional literature
Guided Independent Study	110	Collating of portfolio
Guided Independent Study	120	Writing context for and critical reflection on portfolio

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).