Physical Education Placement 4 (School) (ED0996)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : EDU-4-PEPlacS

The major themes of the Fourth Year placement are: teaching pupils across the secondary school age range; an introduction to both the demands made of and problems encountered by teachers during their probationary phase, and experience of teaching/coaching in a related professional context; teaching a wide range of activities, some of which will be to a comparatively high level; information on team teaching, course planning and curriculum development; introduction to lessons relating to the probationary phase of a teacher's career; experience of an extended professional context.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Satisfactory completion of Placement 3 coursework prior to this placement

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Education, (The Moray House School of Education, Schedule C)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 35 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The following details are designed to outline the demands of BEd 4 placement. Specifically these include teaching PE to S1-S6, including a gradual introduction of Higher Still Physical Education with the aim of students having responsibility for teaching Higher Still classes as the placement progresses through the 8* week period. Also, opportunity should be given to become familiar with current initiatives, which involve the PE dept.

Accordingly, the major themes of the placement will be as follows:

i a gradual introduction to teaching of Higher Still Physical Education

ii continued development of the planning, implementation and evaluation of lessons in Physical Education in core PE in S1 S6 and specific certificated programmes.

iii consideration of current curricular development in core, Standard Grade and Higher Still Physical Education

iv consideration of whole school policies

vi describing and analysing the organisation and functioning of the school as part of the learning community

*Possibility that some students may be required or may elect to remain in the Secondary School for extended period (4 weeks).

Assessment Information

The grades for both third year and fourth year Placement will contribute to the determination of the Honours degree classification. The third and fourth year Placement will each have two grades: one generated by the school and one generated by the Faculty. Therefore, four Placement grades will contribute to the classification of Honours.

Each of these four Placement grades will be an aggregation of the six competency areas and the overall grade for Placement will be derived from the aggregation of separate grades for these as follows:

Overall Grade of A: at least 4 As and no more than 2 Bs (ie no Cs, Ds and Es)

Overall Grade of B: at least 4 Bs and no more than 2 Cs (ie no Ds and Es)

Overall Grade of C: at least 4 Cs and no more than 2 Ds (ie no Es)

Overall Grade of D: at least 6 Ds

Overall Grade of E: a failure would arise if 1 or more Es is recorded.