Welcome to B.Ed 3
Students as Developing
Professionals
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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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BEd 3: SESSION 2013/14:- Semester 1
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Weeks 39-47
Monday
9-10
10-11
11-12
12-1
1-2
2-3
9-11am
1-5pm
Lecture
Workshops
Contexts for Learning
3-4
4-5
Contexts for Learning
Room: GT29
GT 14 & GT 15
9-11am
1-5pm
Tuesday
Lecture
Humanities 3
Humanities 3
Room: LT2
Room: PS3, GT 16
SPS/Placement 3
Weeks 44-46
Fri
Thursday
Wed
Room TBC
9-10am
10-12noon
1-3pm
3-5pm
Lecture
Workshops
Workshops
Workshops
Maths & Science 3
Maths & Science 3
Maths & Science 3
Maths & Science 3
Section 1: Science, Lab
Section 1: Maths GT 15
Section 1: Maths GT 14
Section 2: Maths GT 14
Section 2: Science, Lab
Section 2: Maths GT 15
Section 3: Maths GT 15
Section 3: Maths GT 14
Section 3: Science, Lab
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Course Outline
• Trimester 1
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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
* (Assessment recorded in Trimester 2)
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Module
Summative Assessments
Contexts for Learning
3000 word assignment
Mathematics and Science 3
Humanities 3
examination (Maths) and
assignment (Science)
3000 word assignment
Option
various
Research Informed
Professionalism
group presentation and paper
School and Professional
Studies
Nursery report (from mentor)
Nursery reflective report
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School experience
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
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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
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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
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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
susan.orr@uws.ac.uk
01292
886315
Year Group Leader 4.054
Jim Maclean Senior Lecturer
3.027
jim.maclean@uws.ac.uk
01292
886234
Mary Hunter
School Experience
Secretary
School mary.hunter@uws.ac.uk
Office
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
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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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