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Undergraduate Course: Placement 4 (EDUA10110)

Course Outline
SchoolMoray House School of Education CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)
Course typePlacement AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryPlacement 4 is the last of a series across the four years of the programme. The placement sequence is based on a chronological model. In Placement 4 students are offered the choice between working at early stages (Nursery/P1, or P2 or P3) or middle (P4, P5) or upper (P6, P7). In Placement 4, students need to demonstrate that they are developing further professional knowledge and understanding, increasing abilities and sound professional values. The context provides increased time, and increased opportunities for independent action, to address these aspects. By the end of Placement 4, students should feel that they have been suitably challenged in preparation for their induction year. key feature of this placement is that students undertake a piece of research called the ?professional project=.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Placement 3 (EDUA10108)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Only available to students registered on the BEd Primary Programme (UTPREDB)
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Lecture Hours 4, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 10, External Visit Hours 2, Placement Study Abroad Hours 384, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 0 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 100 %
Additional Information (Assessment) As in previous placements, assessment of Placement 4 is based on a grading of satisfactory/unsatisfactory against the SITE categories on the placement assessment profile. Students must achieve the learning outcomes by the end of the block placement. Both university tutors and school mentors have a key role in assessment.

Evidence of achievement of the Learning Outcomes is derived from:

¿ Student performance in organising, managing, planning, teaching and assessing a class over a sustained period of twenty consecutive days
¿ The Teaching File
¿ The Professional Development Portfolio, containing written tasks and Progress Review
¿ Focussed discussion prior to completion of the assessment profiles.

Details of how these assessment points are overtaken are given to the students in writing in the full Placement 4 documentation.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
The purposes of Placement 4 are to develop understanding, professional competence and sound values in relation to:

- planning, teaching and assessing an appropriate curriculum for a class over an extended period (20 days), with regard to individual differences;
- developing and implementing an effective strategy for organizing learning and class management;
- assessment and recording, systematically, pupils= progress in learning across the curriculum, including suggestions for ?next steps=;
- negotiating, co-operating with, and respecting, school colleagues other professionals, and parents, regarding pupil learning and welfare;
- self-evaluation to improve teaching and learning
- broader school issues, in particular policy and practice relating to primary-secondary transition;
- systematic research on a selected aspect of a teaching programme;
- commitment to the profession, including taking responsibility for their own professional development.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information 35 hour(s) per week for 11 week(s). Block placement of 11 weeks commences January to March

Preparation classes prior to the block placement
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Ann Macdonald
Tel: (0131 6)51 6430
Email: Ann.A.M.MacDonald@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Marzia Ballardin
Tel: (0131 6)51 6381
Email: Marzia.Ballardin@ed.ac.uk
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