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Welcome to B Ed 2

Student as Teacher

Calendar• Timetable

– Trimester 1• Days on campus: Tuesday Wednesday Friday

– Trimester 2• Days on campus: Monday Wednesday Thursday

• School experience– Middle Primary– 25th March – 29th March– Easter Holiday – One week preparation including campus feedback input

Wed 10th April– 15th April – 17th May

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Course Outline• 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 Summative Assessments

Aesthetics 2 Completion of Tasks

Contexts Assignment

Humanities 2a Assignment

SPS Placement 2 School and tutor reports

Humanities 2b Assignment

Maths and Science 2 Maths Exam and Science Assignment

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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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Attendance• 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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Assessment• 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 handbookIf you have a 3rd and final attempt you must contact the module co-ordinator to discuss the assessment, and dates for resit / resubmission.

Progression

• 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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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

All students should access Moodle on a daily basis to keep up to date with current information. 10

Student Officers/Class Representatives

• Staff Student Liaison Group

• 2 officers from each section

• 3 meetings per year

• Names to me by Friday 28 September

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Communication

• 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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Contact Details

Jennifer Ellis Programme Leader 3.012 jennifer.ellis@uws.ac.uk 01292 886252

Yonah Matemba

Year Group Leader 3.007 yonah.matemba@uws.ac.uk

01292 886354

Jim Maclean Senior Lecturer 3.027 jim.maclean@uws.ac.uk 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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