ED3PTGS-Guided Teaching (Secondary)

Module Provider: Institute of Education
Number of credits: 20 [10 ECTS credits]
Level:6
Terms in which taught: Spring term module
Pre-requisites:
Non-modular pre-requisites:
Co-requisites: ED3PTSS Shared Teaching (Secondary)
Modules excluded:
Placement opportunity: Mini placement
Current from: 2023/4

Module Convenor: Mr William Bailey-Watson
Email: w.baileywatson@reading.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:

This is the second of 3 school experience modules. It provides trainees with experiences of teaching and learning in a school placement that extends and consolidates their learning in the previous module in order to enable them to meet the assessable learning outcomes and develop their understanding and proficiency in becoming a teacher.

Aims:

To enable trainees to gain experience of the attributes, knowledge, understanding and skills required of teachers in order that they are able to demonstrate that they are meeting the requirements of the programme ITE curriculum. 

Assessable learning outcomes:

• To demonstrate and provide evidence of having made appropriate progress towards achieving the formative assessment point, and to be judged as not failing professional and personal conduct.


• Demonstrating through their teaching a systematic understanding of teaching and learning


• An ability to deploy established approaches to teaching and learning


• Conceptual understanding that both informs the student’s own teaching (including planning and problem-solving) and informs their analysis and evaluation of classroom practice (theirs and that of other teachers).


• An appreciation of the debates about a range of issues relating to teaching and the ability to engage with these debates professionally.


• The ability of students to take responsibility for their own development as teachers through reflective practice.

Additional outcomes:

Outline content:

Relationships with children and young people, frameworks, personal professional development, teaching and learning, assessment and monitoring, subjects and the curriculum, literacy numeracy and ICT, achievement and diversity, health and well-being, planning, teaching, assessing, monitoring, giving feedback, reviewing teaching and learning, learning environment, team working and collaboration. 

Brief description of teaching and learning methods:

School experience: observation, teaching individuals, small groups and whole classes, participating in whole school life, undertaking teachers’ pastoral responsibilities, mentoring, school based professional studies sessions. Trainees will be supported in school by a mentor, an ITTCo and visited by a university tutor.



University teaching: policy context for education; research context in relation to teaching, learning and childhood development; developing approa ches to reflective practice; strategies for learning in the school environment.



In addition to the taught hours shown below, students will be provided with a minimum of 30 days on placement in school supported by a visit by their university tutor. Placement hours are subject to change according to Programme Director and Steering decisions.

Contact hours:

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Seminars		36
Placement		157
Guided independent study:		7
Total hours by term	0	200	0
Total hours for module	200

Summative Assessment Methods:

Method	Percentage
Practical skills assessment	100

Summative assessment- Examinations:

Summative assessment- Coursework and in-class tests:

The summative assessment is 100% practical assessment of teaching on school placement. This will include the students’ Weekly Reflections on Progress, which must demonstrate the student’s ability to write at a Level 6 academic standard.

Formative assessment methods:

Trainees will keep an E-Portfolio of evidence to help them document their attainment against the curriculum expectations and with a view to progression towards achieving the Teachers’ Standards at the end of the programme.

Penalties for late submission:

The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of five working days;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than five working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/cqsd-old-site-documents/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf
You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Assessment requirements for a pass:

Trainees are required to meet the assessable learning outcomes in order to pass the module and to proceed to Module ED3PTGS as judged by the mentor/ITTCO/subject leader or tutor.  The subject leader/tutor will make the final decision based on the evidence and recommendation of mentor/ITTCo. 

Reassessment arrangements:

Trainees who fail this module will have one opportunity to resit and this will normally result in the need to suspend further studies until the autumn term of the following academic year . 

Additional Costs (specified where applicable):

1) Required text books: 

2) Specialist equipment or materials: 

3) Specialist clothing, footwear or headgear: 

4) Printing and binding: 

5) Computers and devices with a particular specification: 

6) Travel, accommodation and subsistence: Students cover cost of transport to and from the placement school for three placement blocks. History – transport to Windsor for session at Windsor Castle.

 

Last updated: 30 March 2023