WELCOME TO BED 4
P R E PA R I N G T O F LY T H E N E S T
OVERVIEW
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Calendar
Course outline
Summative assignments
Module structure
CREDL
Academic options
Attendance
Assessment
Professional conduct
Student Officers/Class
Reps
• Communication
• Contact Details
ATTENDANCE
• 100% attendance is expected (reg. 5.7.3)
• If attendance is lower than 75% in a module, then you are
withdrawn from placement (fail)
Procedure:
• Monitoring
• Lecturers, module co-ordinators, year group leader
• 10% absence from module
• First email from Claire Fowler
• 20% absence from module
• Second email from Claire Fowler
• Meeting with Programme Leader
• More than 25% absence from module
• Meeting with Programme Leader
• No placement
CALENDAR
Timetable
• Trimester 1
• Days on campus: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (and some Thursdays)
• Trimester 2:
• Days on campus: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
School experience
• Trimester 1 with P6-7
• Weeks 43 - 50 (22/10 – 10/12)
• Trimester 2 serial days
• Weeks 6-13 (4/2 – 25/3)
• Monday or Thursday
• by arrangement with school; not necessarily same every week
COURSE OUTLINE
Trimester 1
• Dissertation
• School and Professional Studies
Trimester 2
• Dissertation (cont.)
• Policy and Practice
• Educational Theory
ASSESSMENT
MODULE
SUMMATIVE ASSESMENT(S)
SPS (Final placement)
Tutor and teacher reports
Dissertation
8000 word thesis
Policy and Practice
Examination
Educational Theory
3000 word assignment
MODULE STRUCTURE
• 200 effort hours per single module
• 400 effort hours per double module
• 600 effort hours per trimester
• Approximately 40h 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, re-read and annotate lecture
notes/handouts, identify questions, work on assignments
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
ACADEMIC OPTIONS
• You have 2 attempts to pass modules
• A fail on a 2nd attempt results in being unable to graduate
with a BEd(Hons) degree
ASSESSMENT
• Examination
• Dates on Moodle
• Student responsibility to confirm
• Assignment Submission
• Dates of submission should be met
• Request for extensions
• Contact module coordinator, provide required evidence
• Late submissions (up to 1 week)
• 10% late penalty
• Failure to submit
• Recorded as fail
• Plagiarism
• Refer to handbook
• Mitigation
• Refer to Moodle and handbook
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
• On-campus lectures and seminars
• Timekeeping
• Participation and concentration
• Mobile phones
• On placement
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Attitude and values
Commitment and work ethic
Dress code
Timekeeping
Communication
• Check Moodle on a daily basis
STUDENT OFFICERS/CLASS REPS
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Staff/student Liaison Group
2 officers from each section required
3 meetings per year
Names to me by Friday 28 September
COMMUNICATION
Moodle
• BEd information site
• Module sites
• Check on daily basis
Section representatives
CONTACT DETAILS
Name
Position
Rm
Email
Tel.
Jennifer Ellis
Programme
Leader
3.012
Jennifer.ellis
@uws.ac.uk
01292 886252
Lindsay
Milligan
Year Group
Leader
3.011
Lindsay.millig
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01292 886278
Jim Maclean
Senior
Lecturer
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Jim.maclean
@uws.ac.uk
01292 886234
Mary Hunter
School
Experience
Secretary
School office
Mary.hunter@ 01292 886254
uws.ac.uk
Cheryl Moir
Student
Services
Cheryl.moir@
uws.ac.uk
01292 886283