Aims:

 To build upon your prior experiences of teaching and learning and the work undertaken in ‘Planning and Enabling Learning and Assessment’ (EDPS0123) so that you can develop further your understanding of classroom practice. You will also be expected to continue to develop critical and reflective approaches to your professional practice.

 Specific module aims are to:

  Enable you to understand and reflect on what is meant by inclusive classroom practice in relation to theories and principles of learning and communication.
 
  Consolidate and extend your knowledge of your subject specific or context specific area and its pedagogy in relation to resource development, the use of ICT and inclusive learning.
 
  Enable you to reflect on what is meant by ‘good’ practice in the lifelong learning sector.
 
  Enable you to gain an understanding of theories and principles of learning and to relate these to professional practice in your teaching organisation.
 
  Enable you to develop the habits of engaging with and evaluating professional practice in relation to your teaching observations, through your own teaching and the support and guidance offered by your mentor and other role models.
 
  Support the development of your reflection through critical incident analysis.
 
  Enable you to plan for your own professional development, setting appropriate targets and monitoring your own progress.
 
  Enable you to develop competence in relevant areas of the teaching standards, specifically in the professional practice and values domain, especially the importance of reflecting on and evaluating your own practice as teachers, tutors or trainers against the value base of the ETF Standards.
 
  Enable you to progress your planned development of literacy, language, numeracy and ICT skills as set out in the Minimum Core.

  

 Outcomes

 You will be able to:

  Apply methods and techniques you have learned during the module, consolidating and extending knowledge to enhance teaching and learning in your professional practice
 
  Apply theories of teaching and learning in your professional practice to enable inclusive learning
 
  Make use of critical incident analysis to evaluate and improve your own practice with reference to theories of teaching and learning
 
  Apply up to date knowledge of your subject or context area
 
  Engage with the principles of, and strategies for, motivating learners and managing classrooms
 
  Use reflection and feedback from others, including peer groups, to evaluate and improve your own practice: and to draw on current research and scholarship
 
  Demonstrate habits of engaging with and evaluating professional practice in relation to observations in your place of work and through your own teaching
 
  Plan for your own professional development and monitor your progress
 
  Demonstrate continued development in literacy, language, numeracy and ICT as set out in the Minimum Core