Undergraduate Course: Design and Technology Placement 1 (EDUA08089)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Placement |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 08 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
Placement 1 is the first of a series across the four years of the programme. The series begins with a Primary School placement which incorporates time spent in an associated secondary school.
Placement 1 consists of a 5 week block placement following the Easter break.
The block format, timed to close the first year of the 4 year programme, provides opportunities for the students to apply in a professional context their understanding about learning in schools developed through first year education and curricular focussed university courses. School experience 1 relates directly to the themes of Education 1A and 1 B: Learning and Teaching; Lifespan Development, Socialisation and Learning; Social Inequality; Understanding life in classrooms and other educational settings. The students are required to evidence their observations, evaluations and analysis of their placements and make explicit links between their university studies and their practicum.
This serves to consolidate and extend their understandings about how children learn and develop, about teachers and teaching, and about the curriculum. Students in Placement 1 also develop new inter-professional awareness and competences particular to school and community settings, through researching some of the wider issues relating to social context, primary childhood care, education and management. The challenge of working collaboratively with others as a team member, showing initiative and making contributions, also helps students towards greater self-awareness and gives real experience of climate-setting.
It is also expected that students liaise with some of the outside agencies associated with the school e.g. community police, health visitor, sports development co-ordinator. Host teachers are therefore asked to support students in ways that allow them to learn to work collaboratively to begin to see the breadth of influences on the child through family, home, school and the community.
Another central feature of this placement is the opportunity to develop observation skills to illuminate insights into aspects of child development. This is particularly explored in the tasks set to encourage critical observation of differences between the primary and secondary school contexts. Achieving competence in such skills is particularly important in informing planning and assessment, as well as in providing a basis for research. |
Entry Requirements
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The purposes of Placement 1 are to develop understanding and professional competence in relation to:
1. curriculum, principles and practices in primary education;
2. the role of observation and reflection in planning for effective teaching successful learning;
3. socio-cultural and psychological perspectives on childhood development;
4. the roles of teachers and other associated professionals within and beyond the school;
5. self-evaluation to improve teaching and learning |
Assessment Information
Placement 1 is based on 2 placement profiles and Personal and Professional Development portfolio.
One placement profile is completed by a university tutor after observing the student with a group or class engaged in an appropriate Design and Technology learning activity and engaging in a post observation evaluation. This reflective discussion and other ongoing feedback and discussions with school colleagues is provided as formative feedback, to support and develop learning.
One placement profile is completed by the placement school based on observation and interaction during the full block placement.
Evidence of achievement of the Learning Outcomes is derived from:
&· The Professional Development Portfolio, containing written tasks, lesson planning, reflections, observations, progress reviews and profiles.
Details of how these assessment points are overtaken are given to the students in writing in the full Placement 1 documentation. |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
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Course secretary |
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