Postgraduate taught 

Education (Primary) (Dumfries campus) PGDE

Learning And Teaching In The Primary Curriculum DUMF5112

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Social and Environmental Sustainability
  • Credits: 30
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Runs Throughout Semesters 1 and 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

Learning and Teaching in the Primary Curriculum

Timetable

To be completed

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

One assignment of 4000 words

Course Aims

To develop a critical understanding of the current curriculum, policy and practice and their roles in constructing effective learning experiences for children
- To enable students to develop a range of learning and assessment strategies which they are able to justify, plan, deliver, assess and evaluate
- To ensure that students understand the link between effective teaching and the quality of children's learning, and the central importance of building productive relationships with the learners
- To enable students to subject the learning and teaching process to regular scrutiny through critical reflection
 - To develop professional identity in the context of professional ethical codes, values and commitments

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Demonstrate a systematic and critical understanding of the curriculum, policy and practice guidelines
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of a range of approaches to teaching
- Demonstrate theoretical and practical understandings of the relationship between teaching and learning
- Plan learning and teaching effectively to meet the needs of a socially and culturally diverse range of learners as well as those with additional support needs
- Use developing knowledge and understanding of how learning occurs to devise appropriate strategies for planning, implementation and assessment, with particular reference to strategies associated with Assessment is for Learning
- Build relationships with pupils and colleagues which foster learning
- Develop and continually improve professional practice through observation, reflection, evaluation, enquiry and critical engagement with literature
- Make ethical and professional judgements appropriate to their role as beginning teachers

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

1. In order to be eligible for the award of credit for this course, students must achieve a minimum of 80% attendance (see programme handbook for further details).

2. Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.