Student as Teacher
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• Timetable
– Trimester 1
• Days on campus: Tuesday Wednesday Friday
– Trimester 2
• Days on campus: Monday Wednesday Thursday
• School experience
– Middle Primary
– 25 th March – 29 th March
– Easter Holiday
– One week preparation including campus feedback input
Wed 10 th April
– 15 th April – 17 th May
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• Trimester 1
– Aesthetics 2
– Contexts for Learning
– Humanities 2a
• Trimester 2
– School and Professional Studies:
Middle Primary Placement
– Humanities 2b
– Maths and Science 2
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Module
Aesthetics 2
Contexts
Humanities 2a
SPS Placement 2
Humanities 2b
Maths and Science 2
Summative Assessments
Completion of Tasks
Assignment
Assignment
School and tutor reports
Assignment
Maths Exam and Science
Assignment
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• 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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• 100% attendance expected (Regulation 5.7.3)
• If lower than 75% attendance in a module, then withdrawal from placement (fail)
• Procedure
– Monitoring
• Lecturers, module co-ordinators, Year Group Leader
– 10% absence from module
• First e-mail from Claire Fowler
– 20% absence from module
• Second e-mail from Claire Fowler
• Meeting with Programme Leader
– More than 25% absence from module
• Meeting with Programme Leader
• No placement.
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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 3 rd and final attempt you must contact the module co-ordinator to discuss the assessment, and dates for resit / resubmission.

• Three attempts at academic modules
• Two attempts at school experience
• You may progress carrying academic modules provided there is not a prerequisite for successful completion before progressing.
• e.g. Maths and Science 2 in trimester 2 of
BEd2 must be passed before progressing to
Maths and Science 3 in trimester 1 of BEd3
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• On-campus lectures and seminars
– timekeeping
– participation and concentration
– mobile ‘phones
• On placement
– attitude and values
– commitment and work ethic
– dress code
– timekeeping
– Communication
All students should access Moodle on a daily basis to keep up to date with current information.
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• Staff Student Liaison Group
• 2 officers from each section
• 3 meetings per year
• Names to me by Friday 28 September
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• Moodle
– B.Ed Information site
– module sites
– Check on daily basis
• Section representatives
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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
• Hope to establish ‘support groups’
– students in all year groups
– local priest
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Jennifer Ellis Programme Leader 3.012
jennifer.ellis@uws.ac.uk
01292
886252
Yonah
Matemba
Year Group Leader
Jim Maclean Senior Lecturer
3.007
3.027
yonah.matemba@uws.a
c.uk
jim.maclean@uws.ac.uk
01292
886354
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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