Online Education 2021-2022

The course is part of the BA Childhood Practice and can only be taken by students having access to an Early Years setting where migrant children are being educated.

The course focuses on challenges migrant children and their families face – a small research project on preparing a case study with one of the migrant children in the student’s setting is integral to the course.

This course has been developed as part of the EU ERASMUS+ project KINDINMI, the University of Aberdeen participated in.

The course is part of the BA Childhood Practice and can only be taken by students having access to an Early Years setting where migrant children are being educated.

The course focuses on challenges migrant children and their families face – a small research project on preparing a case study with one of the migrant children in the student’s setting is integral to the course.

This course has been developed as part of the EU ERASMUS+ project KINDINMI, the University of Aberdeen participated in.

This course supports you to learn from practice for practice and professional development, within a learning community and through collaborative enquiry. The course emphasises the role of the FE lecturer in enabling successful learning for all learners and requires you to critically reflect on your understanding of learners, including yourself. You will develop your understanding of the diverse characteristics of learners that impact on successful learning, and of approaches to facilitation that support learning for all. The course brings together ideas of critically reflective practice, effective facilitation of learning and the development of metacognitive skills for learning. It will support you to develop collaborative and reflexive approaches to continuing professional development.

This stand-alone course is to be offered as CPD to both primary and secondary teachers and covers key fundamental principles and underpinning theory to equip you to safely and effectively implement mindfulness in your classroom.  Reviewing best practise in areas such as ethics, safeguarding and dealing with adverse and religious affects, along with the underpinning purpose, science and impacts of a range of common practises you can build an informed mindfulness strategy and a mindful teacher presence for your classroom.  

This stand-alone course is to be offered as CPD to both primary and secondary teachers and covers key fundamental principles and underpinning theory to equip you to safely and effectively implement mindfulness in your classroom.  Reviewing best practise in areas such as ethics, safeguarding and dealing with adverse and religious affects, along with the underpinning purpose, science and impacts of a range of common practises you can build an informed mindfulness strategy and a mindful teacher presence for your classroom.  

This online course is designed to enable participants to link educational practice, evidence, and theory to design, deliver and evaluate courses for undergraduates and taught postgraduates. It encourages participants to take a critical, scholarly stance on different approaches to learning, teaching and assessment. Sessions are designed to facilitate participants’ engagement with pedagogical literature, to challenge current approaches to teaching, and to encourage planning for their further professional development in contemporary learning and teaching.

This module will consider social, cultural, ethnic, gender, economic and spiritual influences on the development of the individual and the impact of personal bias, prejudice and stereotypes on the counsellor and the provision of counselling. It will also consider power and authority dynamics in the therapeutic process and the clinical challenges which are characteristic of working with particular client issues and client groups. Students will be working towards completing 150 hours of clinical work and submitting recording sessions for review by their group supervisor. In terms of the processing element of the programme, students will begin and complete their self-assessment statement.

The theoretical themes of the module will focus on:

ï‚· Working with different ‘client groups’

ï‚· Different theoretical approaches (CBT Formulation, Psychodynamic Processes)

ï‚· Integrating new developments in the Person-Centred approach

ï‚· New developments in the Person-Centred approach

The second compulsory taught course on the PG Cert, ‘Activities, Knowledge & Values’ will address 5 themes (each delivered in a two-week block), which will be delivered as 5 synchronous interactive seminars (90 minutes). There will be fortnightly, asynchronous discussion-board activities, short video recordings, and topical readings. Overall, this course will balance theory with reflective practice in learning and teaching in higher education.