PGDE(P/S) Developing Practice module (ED42075)

This module focuses on developing your depth of understanding of curriculum areas. It will also cover how to plan for and manage teaching and learning over an extended period.

You will also focus on further enhancing your understanding of how theory and policy intersect. This understanding will inform your developing classroom practice.

This includes building your knowledge of how to differentiate the experience of learning for the children you will teach. This is where the concept of inclusion becomes integral to your practice.

What you will learn

In this module, you will:

• further develop your understanding of how to organise and manage the classroom
• develop your knowledge and understanding. This will help build and maintain effective and sustainable relationships with the children you teach and the professionals you work with
• learn how to develop learners’ conceptual understanding of the building blocks of learning for literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing. These are the responsibility of all teachers
• engage with principles and strategies that allow you to plan for teaching and learning in the short, medium and longer term. This includes through effective use of assessment
• learn about and employ a range of pedagogical approaches. You will learn to engage and support learning to meet the diverse needs of learners, as developmentally appropriate
• develop awareness and understanding of how critical and socially just approaches to pedagogy can challenge and inform your positionality as a teacher

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• use your experience to reflect on all aspects of your learning on the course. You will be able to plan for creating a well-organised classroom. This will enable you to maintain effective and sustainable relationships with the children you teach and the professionals you work with
• identify and employ appropriate pedagogies to address the needs of learners across a range of learning contexts
• follow your professional interests through having opportunities for personalisation and choice in study of curriculum areas or pedagogies
• critically reflect on your practice to assess its effectiveness. You will also be able to plan for your professional development needs
• approach placements from a position of growing confidence and competence. This will enable you to show your ability to fulfil the role of classroom teacher

Assessment

Learning outcomes will be assessed by a single written summative submission.

This module does not have a final exam.

Teaching methods / timetable

This is a seven-week module delivered in two parts, separated by a six-week placement experience.

·         Monday to Thursday is on campus

·         Fridays are predominantly online

It will be delivered through a combination of:

• on-campus and online lectures
• workshops
• tutorials
• online recordings and tasks
• independent study