EDUC1571: Foundation Subjects and School-based Practice 1

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• To begin to develop students' knowledge and understanding of:
• teaching, learning and assessment in the primary classroom;
• teaching and learning in foundation subjects;
• the Teachers Standards, the ITTECF and approaches needed to fulfil these;
• the development of professional identity;
• safeguarding in primary education.

• Establishing high expectations;
• Promoting good progress;
• Introduction to behaviour management in the primary classroom;
• Introduction to pedagogy;
• Introduction to adaptive teaching;
• Introduction to the primary curriculum;
• Introduction to assessment in primary education;
• Developing teacher professional behaviours;
• Building knowledge and understandings of safeguarding;
• Introduction to the foundation subject curriculum and pedagogies.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Methods and approaches suited to the effective planning, organisation and management of the primary curriculum, teaching and learning;
• Development of pedagogic content knowledge;
• Key ideas underpinning the Primary National Curriculum;
• Key ideas underpinning the foundation subjects curriculum;

Subject-specific Skills:

• To be able to reflect on own value systems and development;
• To communicate understandings about teaching in primary education;
• To observe, record and triangulate educational practice to theory in primary schools and classrooms.

Key Skills:

• Demonstrate and reflect on professional behaviours as required in the ITTECF and the Teachers Standards;
• Think critically and independently;
• Work effectively, both independently and as part of a team, on given tasks and activities;
• Communicate ideas, principles and theories effectively in written and oral form;
• Construct and sustain a reasoned argument;
• Evaluate and make use of information from a variety of primary and secondary sources;
• Work collaboratively with peers;
• Engage in peer- and self-assessment;
• Manage time and work to deadlines.

• Workshops, enrichment days, lectures, seminars, tutorials, intensive training and placement days (ITaPs) will be used as appropriate to support students in developing their understanding of and ability to fulfil the professional responsibilities of a teacher.
• All learning outcomes will be assessed appropriately via the assignment.
• Student must attend School Placement days comprising 11 Serial Days, 24 Block Placement days, and 4 ITAP days.

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