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Introduction to the Teaching and Learning module
Weekly Plan
Assignment Brief
Submission requirements & Assignment Checklist
Assessment Sheet
Page 4
Page 5
Page 14
Page 15
Page 16
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The module aims are
• to reorient trainees from their varied subject backgrounds to the reality of teaching their subject in schools and to the academic requirements of the programme.
• to start to develop in trainees the levels of knowledge, personal qualities and standards of professional competence necessary to stimulate the imagination of pupils.
The focus of the module is the rudiments of lesson planning through experiential and practical faculty and school sessions integrated to help you to acquire a range of practical teaching ideas and a graduated range of experiences of teaching in preparation for Practical Teaching
1. The school experience provides practical experience working with pupils as well as Training
Sessions with Subject Mentors and other Partnership School staff. While the work in this module is developed at all levels there is normally an emphasis on KS3 & KS4. You will be introduced to the range of resources available in your subject, including ICT.
The module introduces trainees to short term lesson planning within NC requirements and to formative and diagnostic assessment and assessment within the NC and GCSE. You will be helped to start to audit your Subject Knowledge.
A number of aspects, e.g. lesson observation, lesson planning, Monitoring & Assessment, ICT, which are introduced in Professional Issues, are developed in a subject context.
Pathway Co-ordinator: Carrie Headlam
Room 102 in 2-5 Kirkby place carrie.headlam@plymouth.ac.uk
Pathway Tutor and Programme Leader: Tom Cowan
1 st Floor in Nancy Astor Building tom.cowan@plymouth.ac.uk
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Tuesday 0900-1200 Mathematical Activities (Rolle 207)
Welcome and Introductions
Collect Initial Work
Mathematical Activites
Wednesday 0900-1200 (Rolle 207)
Complete and collect Trainee Snapshots in PDP
Photos taken
The PGCE calendar – important dates
Carrie and Tom
Carrie and Tom
Statistical Activities
Wednesday 1300-1600
Individual Tutorials (Schedule to be Confirmed)
Carrie and Tom
Background Reading

Johnston-Wilder, S., Johnston-Wilder, P., Pimm, D and Lee, C (2011) Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School: A companion to School
Experience
Chapter 11 Mathematics in Context
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Tuesday 0900 -1200 (Rolle 109)
Primary/secondary transition
Tom
The national curriculum in KS2: overview
Developing methods of written calculation: Addition and subtraction
Leapfrogs
Tuesday 1300-1500 (Rolle 109)
Mathematical Investigations
Wednesday 0900-1200 (Rolle 207)
Magic Maths
Return of Initial Work
Tom
Carrie
Consideration of Programme Aims
Introduction to the National Curriculum
Introduction to Teaching & Learning Assignment (end of module assessment)
Introduction to course and subject documentation
Card Matching and Calculus
Allocation of GCSE Questions
Wednesday 1300-1500
Independent Study/Tutorials
Carrie
Background Reading
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Johnston-Wilder, S., Johnston-Wilder, P., Pimm, D and Lee, C (2011) Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School: A companion to School
Experience
Chapter 2 Mathematics in the National Curriculum
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WEEK 10
Tuesday 0900 - 1200
Week beginning 28 th Sept. 2015
(Rolle 109) Tom
Starter
Accessing the Module Folders through moodle. The On-line Handbook &
Proformas and Exemplars Booklet
Lesson Planning: Using the lesson plan proforma
Tom Tuesday 1300-1500
Geogebra
(Rolle 304)
Wednesday 0900-1200 (Rolle 207) Carrie
Starter: The Four Fours
Focussed Lesson Observations
GCSE Presentations Group 1
Review SKP: strategies for progression
Module assignment: discussion
Mathematical Investigations
Wednesday 1300-1500
Independent Study/Tutorials
Carrie
Background Reading
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Johnston-Wilder, S., Johnston-Wilder, P., Pimm, D and Lee, C (2011) Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School: A companion to School
Experience
Chapter 5 Planning for Mathematics Learning
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WEEK 11
Tuesday 0900 - 1200
Starter
(Rolle 115)
GCSE Presentations Group 2
Medium term plans
Week beginning
Tom
5 th October 2015
Looking at a good lesson (Lesson Observation Proforma) and creating a
Reverse Lesson Plan: using the Lesson Plan Proforma, working in small groups.
Tuesday 1300-1400
Autograph
(Rolle 304) Tom
Wednesday 0900-1200 (Rolle 207)
Visiting speaker: Ted Graham
The Further Maths support programme
Developments in A-Level Mathematics
Wednesday 1300-1500 (Rolle 207)
Visiting speaker: Naomi Sani
Carrie
Carrie
Developments in Core Mathematics
Background Reading
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Johnston-Wilder, S., Johnston-Wilder, P., Pimm, D and Lee, C (2011) Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School: A companion to School
Experience
Chapter 9 Using Information and Communication Technology
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WEEK 12
Tuesday 0900 – 1500 (Rolle 304)
Week beginning 12
Exam board websites.
Logarithms Puzzle and the Tarsia Website th Oct 2015
Interactive Resources
Tuesday 1530 - 1630(ish) Carrie
Promethean IWB Session at Ridgeway School, Plympton
Wednesday 0900-1200 (Rolle 207) Carrie
PfEG Resources
Review School Experience (Acting Like a Teacher and Classroom
Management)
Review of Reverse lesson Plans. Module assignment
Developing written methods of calculation: multiplication and division
Wednesday 1300-1500
Independent Study/Tutorials
Carrie
Background Reading

Johnston-Wilder, S., Johnston-Wilder, P., Pimm, D and Lee, C (2011) Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School: A companion to School
Experience
Chapter 4 Different Teaching Approaches

CSMS Chapter 4
 Assessing pupils’ progress in mathematics at Key Stage 3 Teachers’ handbook
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WEEK
Tuesday
13 Week beginning
Visit to Launceston College
AM Observe KS4 Classes
Carrie
PM Collaborative Connected Classrooms with Nicola Trubridge
19 th Oct 2015
Wednesday 0900-1200 (Rolle 207)
Starter: Loop Cards
GCSE Presentations Group 3
Introducing a lesson
– starter activities
Module assignment: discussion
Investigation: Garden Ponds
Carrie
Planning Week 12 teaching: (Garden Ponds or other activity)
Wednesday 1300-1500
Independent Study
Background Reading
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Johnston-Wilder, S., Johnston-Wilder, P., Pimm, D and Lee, C (2011) Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School: A companion to School
Experience
Chapter 8 Communicating Mathematically
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WEEK 14
School Half Term Week
Tuesday 0900
– 1200
(Rolle 207)
Time to Work on Launceston Lesson plans
Week beginning 26 th Oct 2015
Tom
Tuesday 1300-1400 (Rolle 304)
Using Excel to produce classroom resources
Wednesday 0900-1200
Meet some of last year’s trainees
(Rolle 207)
Tom
Carrie
Teacher Recruitment Fair ? (TBC)
Wednesday 1300-1500 (Rolle 207)
Review of Launceston lesson plans
Carrie
Background Reading

Johnston-Wilder, S., Johnston-Wilder, P., Pimm, D and Lee, C (2011) Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School: A companion to School
Experience
Chapter 13 Teaching mathematics post-16
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WEEK 15
Tuesday Visit to Launceston College
AM Teach KS4 Classes
PM Lesson feedback and De-Brief
Wednesday 0900-1200 (Rolle 207)
Starter:
Carrie
PDP and setting targets for Practical Teaching 1
Preparing for placement and interviews
Wednesday 1300-1500
Independent Study/ Tutorials
Week beginning
Carrie
Carrie/Tom
2 nd Nov 2015
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PGCE Secondary Programme
For this module the assessment is based on the observation of an experienced teacher in your own subject area. You will be asked to carry out some observed lessons on an experienced teacher(s) in the first few weeks of your Practical Teaching 1 module. You will make notes on the Focused Lesson Observation Form and have the opportunity to discuss the lessons with the teachers, your Subject Mentor and your Subject Pathway Leader.
The assignment for this module is a 1500 word report and lesson plan. You need to analyse one of the lessons that you observe. You do not need to analyse all the components of this lesson. You will be asked to focus on/given a choice of foci, by your pathway leader. Please note the following:
1.
You need to analyse the component parts and explain the educational concepts that underpin what you observe. In doing this you need to link your explanation to your reading and understanding of the teaching and learning concepts (wider and subject specific) from the module.
2.
In your report you also need to explain why the topic of the lesson is a part of the curriculum. You will need to contextualise the topic as part of a series of lessons, explaining what other topics would come before and after and why the topic is important for progression in your subject.
3.
You will need to design your own lesson plan to cover the objectives of the observed lesson. This should be on the standard programme lesson plan proforma. You should include the lesson plan and focused observation form in your report as appendices and make reference to them when explaining how you would teach the learning objectives.
4.
Your report should be structured in a logical way with clear sections and appropriate headings. Your report should also have a contents page at the start and a list of references at the end. Your referencing should follow the Harvard system.
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Submission deadline: 3pm Tuesday 15 th December 2015 on the EPGS615 Moodle site. We recommend that you submit your work before or at the start of the day and do not leave last minute adjustments etc., until the day of the deadline.
Please complete this checklist before submitting.
I have:
Carefully read the Assessment sheet
(following 2 pages).
Proof read my 1500 word report.
Included a contents page.
Suitably structured the report into clear sections with headings.
Used Harvard referencing
Included my lesson plan.
Included my completed observation form, as an appendix.
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PGCE Secondary Programme
Trainee Name:
Subject Pathway:
Date:
Trainee Reference Number:
First Marker:
First Marker ‘s Signature:
Level 6 Module Outcome: [Provisional until confirmed at Assessment
Board]
PASS  FAIL 
Application of sufficient educational conceptual knowledge to the analysis of observed classroom practice, learners and teachers
Trainee has analysed an observed lesson in their own subject area and is able to relate aspects of the lesson to theories of teaching and learning.
First Marker’s Comments:
Application of sufficiently robust specialist subject knowledge to their own observations, planning and presented work in faculty sessions and serial school practice
Trainee has explained why the topic of the observed lesson is part of the curriculum and how the lesson will form part of a series of lessons.
First Marker’s Comments:
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Sufficiently wide use of educational knowledge of recognised good practice and ethics to demonstrate independent thinking, initiative and adaptation to ‘live’ classroom situations
Trainee has applied their knowledge of good practice to construct a lesson plan for the topic of the observed lesson with all the necessary components.
First Marker’s Comments:
Independently structuring and communicating educational ideas, flexibly handling subject knowledge within individual and collaborative tasks
The overall presentation of assignment is logical and the ideas in the assignment are communicated effectively. The standard of written English is acceptable and the referencing follows to Harvard system.
First Marker’s Comments:
Second Marker’s Comments (if applicable)
Name: Date:
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