PED5012 - Professional Learning and Development

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Explain how they have taken responsibility for their own professional learning by taking on board advice and feedback from tutors and mentors;
Outline how they have modified personal targets and action plans to improve their teaching through professional development;
Critically examine and reflect on their developing professional knowledge and theoretical frameworks and how this will impact on their practice.

Content:

This module builds upon reflection established in Level 4. The module firstly examines in depth the range of professional learning theories that guide professional practice. It also requires students to consider themselves as independent adult learners in the workplace. Students will critically reflect on their professional and academic progress by reviewing previous targets set and outcomes from all assessments. Additionally, students will also critically reflect upon the objectives of the different elements of the modules with a particular focus on developing their professional knowledge.

With the support of their University development tutor, students will jointly set increasingly challenging developmental targets that will enable them to explain how their developing knowledge and experience will impact on their practice.

Development tutors will support and monitor how students are engaging in the modules, managing their time effectively, using guided independent study time and taking responsibility from their professional and academic development.

Students will engage in a range of directed tasks that include a Professional Development Learning Journal. Development tutors will support students in their reflective practice by reviewing their professional development journal, supporting students in seeking additional experiences they may need and directing them to wider literature that will deepen their understanding and criticality. At this level, support for reflection will also be provided by taught sessions exploring professional practices - the content of these will include:
- The assessment process, including use of data
- analysing data to identify and plan for pupil progress
- applications of formative and summative data
- evaluation of school-based practices in this area
- safeguarding, including promotion of fundamental British values
- practices relating anti-bullying

Learning and Teaching Information:

Students will meet their Development Tutor for 1:1 target setting and action planning. They will meet in smaller tutorial groups to consider the links between the different objectives from the taught course, time management skills, progress towards targets set and their developing professional knowledge. Lectures illustrating professional practices will form part of the provision for this module, providing context for students' reflections and actions and for the setting of directed tasks.

Professional practice lectures
Hours: 38
Intended Group Size: 40

Individual tutorials Hours: 3

Group Tutorials
Hours: 12
Intended Group Size: 10

Guided independent study
Hours: 147

Directed activities: All directed tasks will be uploaded to an individual e:portfolio. These will include a reflective journal, a detailed action plan and developmental targets with supporting rationale that explains the impact of their developing knowledge and understanding on their professional practice.

This module is exempt from condonement of marginal failure as a pass is required in order to demonstrate subject knowledge and understanding of key concepts and ideas around professional practice and pedagogy that are essential in order to demonstrate preparedness for School Based Training and in line with the requirement to meet the Teachers' Standards.

Other relevant matters
eg. details of where the module will be available to students on other programmes not detailed in the Learning Outcomes section above.
This module will support students in addressing their targets practically so that they can meet the following from the Teachers' Standards effective from 1st September 2012: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/301107/Teachers__Standards.pdf

Part 1: Standard 8: Fulfil wider Professional Responsibilities
Standard 1: Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils
Part 2: Personal and Professional Conduct

Assessment:

001 E:Portfolio; 4,000 word equivalent (End of Sem 2) 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Mr Simon Fiddes
Level - 5
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YLQ5YLQ

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