SHA5292 - Professional Development and Placement (PE and Sport)

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Identify principles of effective interpersonal relationships and team working.
Demonstrate knowledge of professional skills.
Reflect on personal strengths and weaknesses and understand appraisal schemes in employment.
Evaluate and reflect on the work experience gained and demonstrate understanding of the limits of knowledge and skills in this context.
Demonstrate and reflect on the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring the exercise of personal responsibility and decision-making.

Content:

Students will be on placement for 4 days per week, for 7 weeks.

The placement may be organised by the student, subject to that agreement, or by the university. Alternatively, the placement will be matched to the student by the university careers and employability service. The work placement will be overseen by a work-based mentor and a university based placement tutor and will be required to focus on the role sport and physical education plays in school and the wider community.

Students will complete a critically reflective report based on their experience in the workplace, detailing appraisals and skills developed along with details of projects students have been involved in.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Students will receive a short series of introductory sessions to introduce key principles in relation to professional and personal skills required and the production of evidence to support these principles.
Students will be supported and required to use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information, and to propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis; effectively communicate information, arguments, and analysis, in a variety of forms, to specialist and non-specialist audiences, and deploy relevant techniques to solve problems; undertake further training, develop existing skills, and acquire new competences that will enable them to assume appropriate levels of responsibility within the organisation.

Students will be on placement for 4 days per week, for 7 weeks, focusing on the role sport and physical education plays in school and the wider community and the skills and knowledge required for its effective delivery.

lecture
Hours: 4
Intended Group size: 40

Tutorial - placement tutor and professional mentor
Hours: 4
Intended Group size: 1

Placement
Hours: 224

Guided independent study
Hours: 30

Further details relating to assessment
Students will be required to report their progress to their allocated placement tutor and mentor at regular intervals and will be supported throughout by a placement tutor. In addition, where possible and relevant, the students will be visited by the placement tutor.

Pass / Fail of the placement itself will be allocated based on the student's performance and is at the discretion of the organisation mentor in addition to the placement tutor.

Assessment:

001 Portfolio; 4,000 words equiv.; end of module 100%
002 Placement; pass/fail; end of module 0%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Andrew Pearce
Level - 5
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5T1A2

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