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| EDU-20029 | Education placement | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Co-ordinator: | Mrs Alison Parr Room: CBA1.055, Tel:34337 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Level: | 2 | Credits: | 15 | Study Hours: | 150 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Programme/Approved Electives for |
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| Educational Studies
Dual Honours (Level 2) Educational Studies Major (Level 2) |
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| Available as a Free Standing Elective |
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| In the first instance, priority will be given to students who are taking Educational Studies as a dual honours or major degree subject and to incoming study abroad/international students taking education as part of their degree programme
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| Prerequisites |
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| Priority will be given to students who have completed the Year 1 core/compulsory educational studies modules: Understanding Learning and Education in Britain or comparable modules in the case of incoming study abroad/international exchange students
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Description This module is designed to enable students to gain work-based experience in an educational context and to reflect, in a theoretically informed way on a range of educational themes including: how children learn; how teachers teach; how schools are organised and managed. Students will also reflect on their own emerging professional capabilities and attributes and career plans. The module offers students who are thinking of a teaching career in either primary or secondary education, an opportunity to gain valuable work-based experience in educational settings. In the first part of the module (Keele-based) students will attend three 2-hour workshops where they will be introduced to key issues and theories and perspectives relevant to their education placement. Following the introductory workshops students will spend 10 days (either two consecutive weeks or half or full days per week) - equivalent to 70 hours - in an educational setting. The placement will involve observation of teaching sessions and where appropriate, being engaged in supporting the work of teachers. Students will need to apply for and will be interviewed for a place on the module at the end of semester 2 in year 1. To apply for the module students will need to submit a CV and a written proposal outlining why they should be allocated a place on the module.Accepted students will need to arrange, at personal cost, a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (or equivalent $ùcertificate&© for study abroad/international students) prior to the start of the module. The current cost of a DBS check is £44. Students will however, be supported to find a placement either in primary or secondary education. Priority will be given to students who take Educational Studies as a Major or Dual Honours degree subject. Incoming study abroad/international students may also be permitted to take the module. Places are however limited and will only be allocated to students who are able to demonstrate the following: &· Familiarity with current educational issues and debates (essential) &· Evidence of capacity to work as a team member (essential) &· Have completed the core Educational Studies modules Understanding Learning and Education in Britain or equivalent modules on educational learning and education policy and practice (desirable) &· have completed at least one Educational Studies elective module or equivalent modules on childhood or the history of education (desirable) &· Previous engagement with educational settings (desirable) &· Satisfactory performance at interview (essential) &· a reference attesting to ability of students to act professionally in a work place situation (essential) &· Finally, any offer of a place will be subject to a completed DBS enhanced disclosure (or equivalent certificate for international/study abroad students) which is deemed satisfactory by the University. |
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| &· To enable students to make connections between theoretical knowledge/academic perspectives on education and the processes/practices/policies that exist in educational work environments; &· To enable students to experience, recognise and develop skills, attributes and professional capabilities that are valued in the educational workplace; &· To enhance graduate employability and students' ability to plan their career path &· To enable students to recognise and map their own learning against the graduate attributes listed in the Keele Distinctive Curriculum |
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| Intended Learning Outcomes |
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| Make meaningful connections between the knowledge acquired as part of the Educational Studies degree programme and the professional contexts and processes in the education workplace will be achieved by assessments: 1,2 Systematically record teaching observations and make reflections on these drawing on academic theory will be achieved by assessments: 2 Evaluate personal learning gained from an educational work-based learning experience will be achieved by assessments: 1,2 Have a practice informed understanding of the professional qualities expected of teachers in the education workplace will be achieved by assessments: 2 Apply in detail, academic theory to an area of educational policy/practice. will be achieved by assessments: 1 |
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| 9 Hours Keele-based teaching (6 hours introductory sessions; 1 hour supervision/meetings with Keele-based placement supervisor; 2 hour assessment workshop; 70 hours placement 35 hours guided independent study 36 hours preparation of portfolio and reflective analysis |
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| Description of Module Assessment |
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| 01: Reflective Analysis weighted 50% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a reflective analysis of the education placement linking academic theory to educational practice (2,000 words). a reflective analysis of the education placement linking academic theory to educational practice (2,000 words). Students will be asked to focus in depth on one of the themes covered in weeks 1-3 of the module but to make connections between theory learnt as part of the Educational Studies degree and observations of teaching, learning and school organisation. |
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| 02: Portfolio weighted 50% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| portfolio of evidence gathered during the course of the placement - comprising 5 sets of documents as listed below a portfolio (50%) that evidences the work-experience gained - to include the following: &· the student&©s application (CV and covering letter) for the placement; &· records of teaching observations (a minimum of 4 teaching sessions to be observed and written up by the student); &· records of any work undertaken as part of the placement (eg listening to students read, supporting group work) &· confirmation of the completion of placement hours -signed off by a representative of the placement school and the Keele placement supervisor; &· an evaluative report of the student&©s own learning (minimum 800 words) mapped against graduate attributes listed in the Keele Education Studies programme; |
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| Version: (1.04D) Created: 22/May/2013
This document is the definitive current source of information about this module and supersedes any other information. |
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