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Stand Alone Module
Teaching and Learning in Primary School
30 Credits
- Duration:
- 15 Weeks
- Start Dates:
- September
- Attendance:
- One day a week
- Cost:
- Available on request
- Key Contact:
- Roger Dalrymple
- Tel:
- 01494 522 141 ext 3596
- Email:
- roger.dalrymple@bucks.ac.uk
Is this course suitable for me?
This module is targeted mainly at students working in primary schools who have the intention of training as teachers.
Overview
The aim of this module is to generate evidence to show skills and knowledge in teaching.
Content
It focuses on the particular, generic skills which practitioners need to be developing, in particular:
- Long and medium term curriculum plans
- Good practice in planning and evaluating lessons
- Differentiation
- Assessment for learning
- Classroom management
- Dealing with challenging behaviour
- Extending children’s thinking
- Raising the achievement of bilingual children
- Use of national and comparative data to set targets for achievement and attainment
- Typical content and practice of Key Stage summative assessments
- QTS and NQT professional standards
What will I learn?
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Plan and evaluate your lessons
- Demonstrate knowledge of a range of strategies for meeting the needs of different pupils, taking into account bilingualism, SEN, gifted and talented
- Demonstrate the importance of assessing pupils to maximise the opportunities for learning
- Understand the key principles underpinning effective classroom management and management of children’s behaviour
- Understand the national context for the assessment of children’s achievement
Teaching and learning
The teaching and learning strategy focuses on collaborative learning in classroom-based lessons. Simulations are commonly used, particularly in teaching effective strategies for dealing with challenging behaviour. ILT is used to share web-based sources of pupil achievement data and classroom teaching resources. Relevant local practitioners (e.g. headteachers/recently qualified teachers) are invited to offer perspectives on key issues.
The work for summative assessment needs to be arranged by you in liaison with a teacher within the same school who can act as a mentor. An opportunity for formative assessment (by both the mentor and module tutor) exists after you have taught an individual lesson as part of the lesson series (assessed summatively).
The module is assessed summatively via a portfolio containing plans for a series of 6 related lessons These plans include:
- rationale for subject and approach taken
- background data on class (e.g. prior achievement in relation to national expectations)
- learning objectives
- assessment opportunities
- differentiation
- use of additional adults
- timeline of lesson activities
- evaluation of lesson in relation to classroom management
The inclusion of these elements allows the tutor to measure your performance against the learning outcomes for the module. The assignment should include some brief comments from the workplace mentor on the work undertaken and should clearly indicate which Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) standards are beginning to be addressed.
Entry requirements
Working in a practice area with minimum 6 months experience in an appropriate setting is required
- 120 level 5 credits (or equivalent)
- Support of your manager
- Opportunity to work outside usual practice area, if necessary, to gain specific clinical competence
How to make an application
Please contact the Enquiries Team on 01494 603 171 or email ask@bucks.ac.uk
We hope to have a fully on-line application system shortly, but in the meantime, to apply for a course, please download and print these forms, completing them fully and posting back to the address below.
- Course_Enquiry_Letter (70.4 KB)
- Application_form (58.1 KB)
- Notes_for_Guidance (51.6 KB)
- Fee_Authoristaion_Form (61.1 KB)
- Academic_Reference_Form (50.6 KB)
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Alternatively, if you call us on 01494 603 171 or email ask@bucks.ac.uk we can post you a hard copy application pack.
Students funded by the NHS or other employer
If the cost of your course is being funded by your employer, please contact your education lead or manager for guidance as to how they would prefer you to make an application.