Module EDUM066 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EDUM066: Secondary Education and Professional Studies (School Direct)
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
The principle aims of the module are to:
- enable you to gain an understanding of a range of contemporary education policies and issues, theory and practice;
- support you in reflecting critically on children’s learning and development, pedagogy and teachers’ roles and responsibilities; and
- support you to meet the standards for Qualified Teacher Status as required by the National College for Teaching and Learning.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. identify and evaluate educational theories and policies and engage in critical debate about current issues, drawing on evidence from theory, policy, research and practice; 2. understand theories of pedagogy, learning and development, and consider how these can inform professional practice. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. critically evaluate the relevance of educational theories to practice; 4. synthesise relevant educational literature in support of an argument; 5. use appropriate technologies for data handling and writing in education; 6. present data and findings in a form appropriate for educational contexts; 7. use research data in support of an argument in education (including government reports). |
| Personal and Key Skills | 1. manage your own learning development and evaluation of your learning; 2. learn effectively both independently and co-operatively, and be aware of your own learning strategies; 3. express ideas and opinions, with confidence and clarity, to a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes with rational argument based on relevant and reliable data; 4. work productively in different kinds of teams (formal, informal, project based, etc); and 5. think creatively about the main features of a given problem and develop strategies for its resolution. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module introduces you to current thinking in Education and Professional Studies in the context of teaching in a school in England. Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that key elements of the module will include:
- Online resources including recorded lectures that will introduce you to topics relevant to your professional development as a teacher, for example: theories of learning; introduction to research methods; the curriculum; and assessment for learning.
- Online resources including recorded lectures that will introduce you to the expectations of working at Masters level and to approaches suitable for carrying out a small-scale, classroom-based, research study.
- Online seminars which create opportunities for you to explore, consolidate and deepen your understanding of these topics.
- Professional Studies seminars in school that will follow up topics from the lecture programme in a specific educational context.
On the PGCE School Direct, you will learn and reflect on the skills and knowledge required by the programme’s credit-bearing and non-credit bearing modules throughout the year. You will need to think about the modules in relation to each other. To facilitate this, the learning and teaching activities and guided independent study described below are scheduled to occur across all three terms both in the context of your university taught course and in the context of your applied professional experience in schools.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 88 | 212 | 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 & Teaching activities | 48 | Interaction with online resources posted for the module in ELE that will include reading selected literature, accessing video clips and listening to recorded lectures |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 30 | Seminars and follow up seminar activities |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 20 | Professional Studies seminars in school |
| Guided Independent Study | 20 | Completion of directed tasks related to module content |
| Guided Independent Study | 182 | Independent reading and reflection, classroom observation and teaching experience while on placement in school |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
School Direct Education and Professional Studies course in ELE (http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/)
