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EDUC30740: Understanding Secondary Classrooms (Biology)

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Type Tied
Level 3
Credits 40
Availability Not available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Education

Prerequisites

  • None.

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None.

Aims

  • To critically understand a secondary curriculum subject and generic educational issues and their relationship to secondary children and classrooms.
  • To critically apply the ideas to classroom practice.

Content

  • The course will be structured around intensive study of the following topics focussing on their impact on the Secondary school classroom:
  • The professional responsabilities of the teacher;
  • The National Curriculum and other educational directives;
  • The nature and practice of classroom management;
  • Planning for effective teaching and learning;
  • The place of language in learning, including for those pupils with English as an additional language;
  • Planning for assessment in the Secondary curriculum.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

Subject-specific Skills:

  • On completion of the module students will be able to: critically understand a range of secondary curriculum subject-based and generic educational issues and their relationship to secondary children and classrooms;
  • critically apply the ideas to classroom practice.

Key Skills:

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Lectures, workshops and seminars, including presentations from the students. Normally, a lecture will introduce a particular topic, and will then be followed up in seminar groups, and in schools during regular visits.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Lectures204 per week1 hour20Yes
Tutorials51 per week1 hour5Yes
Practicals505 per fortnight2 hours100Yes
Preparation and Reading275 
Total400 

Summative Assessment

Component: A Portfolio of EvidenceComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
A Portfolio of Evidence2000 words100 

Formative Assessment

Preliminary feedback on the portfolio and assignment above.

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