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This course aims to provide students with opportunities to further develop their professional skills as emerging teachers. Students will gain practical opportunities to explore the classroom environment from a teacher’s perspective and to critically reflect on this experience. The course includes a five-week placement in school. Building on from School Experience 1, students will work towards planning and teaching for a whole class in the three core curricular areas of Literacy, Numeracy and HWB. Following placement, students will engage in deeper reflection and be encouraged to develop their understanding of praxis, connecting what they have observed in the classroom to key Scottish policies and wider academic literature.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 2 |
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| Term | Full Year | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This academic course spans across the two semesters and includes a five-week placement in school. In preparation for School Experience 2, students will engage in a variety of course inputs aimed at developing their professional skills in the following areas:
• The planning cycle
• The role of the teacher
• Differentiation strategies and meeting pupil learning needs
• Formative and summative assessment strategies
• Building professional relationships with children and adults
• Wider partnership working, including parents and other agencies
• Teacher creativity
• Child Protection and safeguarding
Students will have opportunities in School Experience to team teach, teach groups and the whole class. They will be expected to teach at least two full days which do not need to be consecutive. Following placement students will engage with learning theory and pedagogy reflecting on experiences and using their documentation including specific placement tasks.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 26,27,28 | Feedback Weeks | ||
| Feedback |
Summative tutor observed lesson report (Weeks 26 - 28) and Summative school report (Week 28). Assessed in school by one tutor visit (50%) and one school report (50%). Feedback provided at time of tutor visit and ongoing from supporter teacher.
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Develop broad and detailed knowledge and understanding of the professional responsibilities of a teacher. |
| Procedural | Understand | Develop a detailed knowledge of planning for learning for a group of pupils in literacy, numeracy and HWB at first/ second level. |
| Procedural | Understand | Develop a broad knowledge of planning for learning. |
| Reflection | Apply | Develop the ability to reflect on and document experiences in the classroom environment. |
| Reflection | Understand | Develop awareness of the complex role of the teacher in a diverse Primary setting. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 40 | Feedback Weeks | 44 | |
| Feedback |
Students will reflect upon a learning experience they have planned and delivered in their MA2 placement, reflecting upon the planning and curriculum cycle. Students are to append their lesson plan as part of their submission. This assignment will be marked on Turnitin and feedback will be available to students within the 3 week period of submission. |
Word Count | 1000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Develop broad and detailed knowledge and understanding of the professional responsibilities of a teacher. |
| Procedural | Understand | Develop a detailed knowledge of planning for learning for a group of pupils in literacy, numeracy and HWB at first/ second level. |
| Procedural | Understand | Develop a broad knowledge of planning for learning. |
| Reflection | Apply | Develop the ability to reflect on and document experiences in the classroom environment. |
| Reflection | Understand | Develop awareness of the complex role of the teacher in a diverse Primary setting. |
| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | 16,28 | Feedback Weeks | 16 | |
| Feedback |
This is a mandatory formative assessment task where groups of students will work together to plan and deliver an MA2 Creativity Conference. Students will work with a Course Tutor to plan and deliver a small teaching session for a group of primary school aged children on campus. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Develop broad and detailed knowledge and understanding of the professional responsibilities of a teacher. |
| Procedural | Understand | Develop a broad knowledge of planning for learning. |
| Reflection | Understand | Develop awareness of the complex role of the teacher in a diverse Primary setting. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | 50 | Feedback Weeks | 1 | |
| Feedback | Word Count | 1000 | ||
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | 43,44,45 | Feedback Weeks | 43,44,45 | |
| Feedback |
Retrieval placement May/June 5 weeks in another school with one tutor visit and one school report. The student must pass both the Tutor Visit and the School Report to pass the placement element of the course. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Understand | Develop a detailed knowledge of planning for learning for a group of pupils in literacy, numeracy and HWB at first/ second level. |
| Procedural | Understand | Develop a broad knowledge of planning for learning. |
| Reflection | Apply | Develop the ability to reflect on and document experiences in the classroom environment. |
| Reflection | Understand | Develop awareness of the complex role of the teacher in a diverse Primary setting. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Develop broad and detailed knowledge and understanding of the professional responsibilities of a teacher. |
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