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Welcome to B.Ed 3

Students as Developing Professionals

Calendar• Timetable

– Trimester 1• Days on campus: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

– Trimester 2• Days on campus: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

(provisional)

• School experience– Nursery

• Weeks 47 - 49 (November 19 – December 7)

– Early Years School• Weeks 6 – 10 (February 4 – March 8)

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Course Outline• Trimester 1

– Contexts for Learning– Humanities 3– Maths and Science 3– School and Professional Studies: Nursery Placement *

• Trimester 2– School and Professional Studies: Early Years School

Placement – Research Informed Professionalism– Academic Option

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Module Summative Assessments

Contexts for Learning 3000 word assignment

Mathematics and Science 3 examination (Maths) and assignment (Science)

Humanities 3 3000 word assignment

Option various

Research Informed Professionalism

group presentation and paper

School and Professional Studies

Nursery report (from mentor)Nursery reflective report School experience 5

Module Structure• 200 effort hours per module = 600 hours per trimester

– approximately 40 hours per week (contact and non-contact time)

• Lecture + workshop/seminar/tutorial + independent study

• Workshop/seminar/tutorial– collaborative working, discussions, presentations, reflections on

reading, analysing theory, lesson planning

• Independent study– read recommended texts/articles/chapters, re-read and annotate

lecture notes/handouts, identify questions, work on assignments

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Academic Options• Courses designed to deepen your knowledge of subject area• Not necessarily directly related to teaching

– Applying Mathematics*

– Art and Visual Culture*

– Developing Healthy Lifestyles

– Equality and Inclusion

– Holocaust Studies*

– ICT*

– Modern Languages

• Dissertation may be in same field, but not same topic• Final class lists will be created at end of October; movement

is possible until then. Any option with very low numbers (under 10) may not run.

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Attendance• 100% attendance expected (Regulation 5.7.3)• If lower than 75% attendance in a module, then withdrawal

from placement (fail), withdrawal from the module (University Student Engagement Policy).

• Procedure – Monitoring

• Lecturers, module co-ordinators, Year Group Leader

– 10% absence from module• First e-mail

– 20% absence from module• Second e-mail • Meeting with Programme Leader

– More than 25% absence from module• Meeting with Programme Leader• No placement.

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Assessment• Examination

– dates on Moodle– student responsibility to confirm

• Assignment Submission– Dates of submission should be met– Requests for extensions

• contact module co-ordinator; provide required evidence– Late submissions (up to one week)

• 10% late penalty– Failure to submit

• recorded as fail– Plagiarism

• refer to handbook– Mitigation

• refer to Moodle and handbook

If you have a final attempt you must contact the module coordinator . It is the student’s responsibility to confirm resit/ resubmission information.

Progression

• Three attempts at academic modules

• Two attempts at school experience (three attempts at pre-school report)

• Not able to proceed to the Honours year with credit deficit– Enrol as Assessment Only to pass– Return to B.Ed 4 following academic session

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Professional Conduct• On-campus lectures and seminars

– timekeeping– participation and concentration– mobile ‘phones

• On placement– attitude and values– commitment and work ethic– dress code– timekeeping– Communication

At all times please be very careful about what is posted on social network sites.

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Student Officers/Class Representatives

• Staff Student Liaison Group

• 2 officers from each section

• 3 meetings per year

• Names to me by Friday 27 September

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Communication

• Moodle– B.Ed Information site– module sites– Check on daily basis

• Section representatives

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Contact Details

Jennifer Ellis Programme Leader 3.012 jennifer.ellis@uws.ac.uk 01292 886252

Sue Orr Year Group Leader 4.054 susan.orr@uws.ac.uk 01292 886315

Jim Maclean Senior Lecturer 3.027 jim.maclean@uws.ac.uk 01292 886234

Mary Hunter School Experience Secretary

School Office

mary.hunter@uws.ac.uk 01292 886254

Cheryl Moir Student Services cheryl.moir@uws.ac.uk 01292 886283

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Catholic Religious Education Distance Learning(CREDL)

• Glasgow University distance learning• http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/religiouseducationbydistancelearning/

• Inform Programme Leader and Mary Hunter – aim to allocate placements in RC schools

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