Primary Education Placement 4 (University) (ED1126)

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

This placement, eleven weeks at a stage of the students' choice (lower/upper) is designed to build on, use and extend experiences, learning outcomes and understandings, developed on previous placements. It is intended to be coherent and progressively demanding, maintaining a pattern of growth in all areas.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Successful completion of Third Year of the BEd (Primary Education) degree programme.

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 11 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 3 hour(s) per week for 4 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Placement 4 provides opportunities for students to extend abilities through:

- developing and implementing effective forward planning for a period of four weeks (20 days) full responsibility

- developing an appropriate strategy for organizing learning and class management

- assessing and recording pupils' progress in learning

- planning and undertaking systematic research on a selected aspect of a teaching programme

- participating in the wider life of the school and collaborating effectively with school staff

- understanding policy and practice relating to primary-secondary transition