FDA4062 - Working with Families

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Learning and Teaching Information:

This module will address the following Foundation Degree participants :
Supporting Early Years
Supporting Learning and Additional Needs
Supporting Children and Families in Social Contexts
Learning and teaching will include a range of methods such as lectures, e-working, workshops and tutorials, with emphasis on team experience and peer support, large and small group discussions, problem-solving activities, and individual and paired working.
Students may be expected to draw on a range of theoretical/academic, personal and work-based resources. Course documentation, support materials and web-based materials will be available on the VLE as appropriate.
Study skills will be developed. During the course of each session there will be opportunities for tutor/student interaction to meet individual needs and help develop skills, confidence, competence, knowledge and understanding relating to the aims and objectives of the module. Students will maintain their Personal Development Log during this module and on-going self-evaluation will be part of the students’ identification of needs.

Lectures, seminars, learning activities, workshops and tutorials, e-engagement e.g. e-fora, VLE activities
Contact hours: 25
Intended group size: 30/ groups/individual

Flexibly delivered assessment support/ e-support including tutorials
Contact hours: 5
Intended Group size: Groups/individual

Work-based tasks
Contact hours: 25
Intended Group size: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 145

Further details relating to assessment
Submission of an indicative extract mid-module is a requirement.

Typical portfolio content would be a small-group Wiki (e.g. 1000 word equiv, 20%), a personal SWOT analysis (e.g. 1000 word equiv, 20%), an essay (e.g. 1000 words, 30%) and a media review (e.g. 1000 words, 30%).

The media review requires students to individually identify a published contemporary mainstream media article featuring a family(s). Students will critically assess the validity and reliability of the article with reference to alternative academic accounts of modern families. Students will also reflect upon their own initial response to the media article and in light of their subsequent research around the issues.

The small group wiki requires students to work collaboratively in small teams in order to produce wiki based information a topic covered in the module. Students will then submit an individual SWOT analysis of the small group Wiki experience.

The essay requires students to submit an academic essay exploring communication and engagement with families.

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