Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EARM002: Primary Art

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

The module will focus on extending the breadth and depth of your understanding of art education in several directions, in order that you can develop children’s art learning in a number of ways. These include:

To help you develop a critical, reflective, and creative approach to teaching art that fosters children’s enthusiasm for learning
To encourage you to appreciate the wider role of art in relation to cultural diversity and to use research to develop a contemporary and critical view of art education in theory and practice
To gain a deeper understanding of approaches to teaching art in order to understand its place in the curriculum and ways in which it can relate to other subjects.
To focus on leadership in art to enable you to evaluate and select materials, organize the subject within a school, and support your colleagues’ art teaching.
To be aware of effective approaches for inclusive art education, both in and outside formal school settings
To nurture your development as a reflective and autonomous professional practitioner who is able to identify strengths and areas for development in your subject knowledge and pedagogy, through evaluating current professional practice in relationship to developments in research and curriculum theory
To help you to meet The Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status (Ofsted, 2012) and thus be in a very good position to gain employment as a primary teacher able to specialize in art teaching

Each of these strands is developed throughout the module. Peer learning and teaching is a feature of the module, both by sharing strengths within the art specialist group and by providing support for fellow non-specialist students.

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. identify and evaluate educational concepts and issues related to art and to engage in critical debate about current issues in art, drawing on evidence from theory, research and practice; 2. recognize pupils learning needs in art and interpret these learning needs in order to plan, teach, assess and evaluate lessons and schemes of work; 3. demonstrate confident academic and pedagogic subject knowledge to teach art in the primary phase of education; 4. demonstrate secure understanding of the statutory requirements of art in the National Curriculum; 5. demonstrate professional competence as specified by the Standards for the Award of Qualified Teacher Status;
Discipline-Specific Skills	6. critically evaluate the relevance of learning theory to practice; 7. synthesize relevant educational literature in support of an argument; 8. use appropriate technologies for data handling and writing in education; 9. present data and findings in an appropriate form; 10. use research data in support of an argument in education;
Personal and Key Skills	11. manage your own learning development; 12. learn effectively and be aware of your own learning strategies; 13. express ideas and opinions, with confidence and clarity, to a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes; 14. work productively in different kinds of teams (formal, informal, project based, committee based etc); and 15. think creatively about the main features of a given problem and develop strategies for its resolution.

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Specialist reading task: Research paper critique	750 words	1,11,13	On-line/verbal feedback
Written assignment: Literature review using research, policy & theory to explore a focus topic	1,750 words	1,3,4,7,11	Written feedback

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Specialist written assignment, linking theory, policy, practice & research	100	5,000 words	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15	Written feedback
	0
	0
	0
	0
	0

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Specialist written assignment, linking theory, policy, practice & research	Specialist written assignment, linking theory, policy, practice & research	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15	See notes below.

Re-assessment notes

If a submitted assignment is deemed to be a Fail, you will be given feedback outlining what needs to be done to bring the assignment to a pass standard and one opportunity for resubmission will be allowed.

You can choose to resubmit a failed assignment ‘in year’ (i.e. before the final Exam Board in July). The resubmission would normally be made 4 weeks after receiving feedback on the first submission. Alternatively, you may opt to go to the Exam Board with the fail mark. You will then be referred to the Consequences Board who will confirm the conditions for resubmission of the work. Normally the resubmission should be by 1^st September. You should discuss these options with your tutor.

Note: if you choose the second option, the award of PGCE will be delayed until the Exam Board following any successful resubmission (normally held in December).

If a specialist assignment is deemed to be a Fail by the Exam Board, the mark obtained on resubmission will be capped at 50%.