Learning and Teaching (Primary Education) (Top-Up)
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Help shape the learning of future generations with our Learning and Teaching (Primary Education) Top-Up degree. By combining three teaching placements with academic study and learning from expert tutors with real-world experience, this course will advance your current knowledge and give you a strong understanding of what is needed to meet a teaching environment's professional standards and expectations.
Within West Yorkshire, teaching is one of the specialist skills that is currently in demand (WYCA, 2021), so this is a great time to consider it as a career and gain the necessary qualifications to join the workforce. This course provides anyone who is specifically interested in primary education with the exciting opportunity to meet the standards for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). This will be assessed independently by the ITT-accredited provider Leeds City College Corporation and will be awarded upon completion of the BA (Hons) Learning and Teaching (Primary Education) top-up Degree. The programme will cover all stages of primary education, ages 3-11.
Across two semesters, you will learn in an environment that blends employment with academic learning, undergoing three teaching placements alongside more traditional-based classroom learning. You will develop core teaching elements in primary education, including teaching appropriately and effectively in a challenging environment, teaching across different education settings, and effective teaching strategies with children. You will also develop your understanding of how to teach across the primary curriculum and study modules that further cover teaching and learning approaches in theoretical and applied contexts, classroom pedagogy and curriculum subject knowledge.
Throughout this course, you'll be taught by expert tutors who have first-hand experience in the industry and will give you a fundamental understanding of what is needed to succeed in the field. The Luminate Partnership for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) was established in 2020 and you will benefit from our excellent links with our primary partnership schools and academies.
You will graduate with the following qualification: BA (Hons) Learning and Teaching (Primary Education). If you opt in to the QTS route, you will also gain QTS simultaneously to your BA (Hons) degree. Find out more information on Luminate Education Group Partnership for ITT.
Modules
Compulsory modules may include:
Professional Practice 1: Contemporary Primary School Based Education (20 credits)
This module provides opportunities for you to meet the professional standards and expectations of teaching through a practical, school-based experience during your first teaching practice placement.
Behaviour, Wellbeing and Safeguarding in Primary Education (20 credits)
Gain practical advice on the skills and strategies you will need to appropriately and effectively cope with challenging behaviour in a range of educational settings.
Teaching Learning and Assessment in Primary Education (20 credits)
Explore the factors that contribute to the development of effective teaching strategies in the education of children and young adults.
Inclusive Professional Practice in Primary Education (20 credits)
In this module, you will critically evaluate the role of education when it comes to supporting the diverse needs of learners. You will also consider interventions aimed at eliminating barriers to participation.
Optional modules may include:
Professional Practice 2: Reflecting on Professional Practice in Primary Education* (20 credits)
During your second teaching placement, you will develop your subject specialist teaching skills. You will also develop your ability to plan a series of lessons that build on and sustain progression in pupils’ learning.
Professional Practice 3: Primary Stage Specific Theory and Practice* (20 credits)
In your third teaching placement, you will experience the complexity of non-mainstream secondary education, including independent alternative provision, off-site direction and special schools.
Major Research Project (40 credits)
Engage in educational research and undertake a research project based on a theme of interest within the primary school sector.
*These modules are required if opting for QTS
Assessment methods
Your teaching practice placements will be assessed by an Individual Progress Journal that contributes towards the achievement of each of the Teachers’ Standards. Assessment will take a holistic approach by considering the Teachers' Standards throughout and including behaviours, attitudes, and competencies across a number of different aspects of practice.
Other assessments may feature a variety of observational and coursework-based methods designed to contribute to the development of your professional practice, and may include:
- Teaching observation
- Critical reflection
- Case study
- Investigative report
- Academic poster, to be exhibited at an annual ‘HE Research Festival’
- Action research project relating to inclusive practice
- Research project proposal
- Annotated bibliography
- Individual progress journal
The assessments are contextualised to your practice and relate to a work-related problem. You are encouraged to engage critically with whole-school improvement efforts in your assessed work. The assessments have been designed to result in recommendations for future school-based practice.
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