Module EDUM042 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EDUM042: Secondary English Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
The principal aims of the module are to:
- enable you to gain a comprehensive understanding of the research, principles and practice relating to current teaching of English in the secondary curriculum;
- introduce you to how students learn in English;
- develop your confidence in using principled practices for teaching English;
- offer you contexts for learning through observation, participation, collaboration and co-operation;
- develop your ability to reflect critically on your own practice;
- encourage you to be an autonomous and independent learner;
- encourage you to teach with imagination, enthusiasm and courage;
- nurture an understanding of, and an enthusiasm for, continuing professional development: a lifelong commitment to developing your literary, linguistic, creative and aesthetic strengths; and
- support you to meet the Standards required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. identify and evaluate educational concepts and issues related to English in education; 2. recognise pupils learning needs in English 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 English; 4. demonstrate secure understanding of the National Curriculum for English; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 5. critically evaluate the relevance of educational theory to practice; 6. synthesise relevant educational literature in support of an argument; 7. use appropriate technologies for data handling and writing in education; 8. present data and findings in a form appropriate for educational contexts; 9. use research data in support of an argument in education; |
Personal and Key Skills | 10. manage your own learning development; 11. learn effectively and be aware of your own learning strategies; 12. express ideas and opinions, with confidence and clarity, to a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes; 13. work productively in different kinds of teams (formal, informal, project based, etc); and 14. think creatively about the main features of a given problem and develop strategies for its resolution. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
London: SAGE Burn A, Durran J. (2007) Media Literacy in Schools London: Paul Chapman
Fleming, M., & Stevens, D. (2010). English teaching in the secondary school: Linking theory and practice. Routledge. 3rd Ed.
Goodwyn A and Stables W (2004) Learning to Read Critically in Language and Literacy Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Hopkins, D. (2014) A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Research Maidenhead: Open University Press
Mercer, N. (2000) Words and Minds: how we use language to think together London: Routledge
Myhill D, Jones S, Watson, A., & Lines, H. (2016). Essential primary grammar. Open University Press.
Web based and electronic resources: see PGCE English course on ELE (http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/).