Art of Learning and Teaching

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Develop a critical, reflective, and innovative approach to teaching and learning in educational and practice settings and formulate plans for their own professional development.
• Develop a critical, reflective, and innovative approach to teaching and learning in educational and practice settings and formulate plans for their own professional development.
• Create effective learning environments through facilitating and establishing positive relationships and ensuring that the principles of equal opportunities are adhered to.
• Select, plan, and implement a range of educational strategies, and facilitate learning across a range of educational and practice settings and utilise a range of learning resources including digital technology.
• Identify and respond to the needs of individual learners ensuring they access the necessary support and facilitate their progress towards becoming autonomous learners.
• Effectively utilise the information gained from assessment and evaluation to aid self-reflection and self-development.

Indicative module content includes:

• Skills and qualities of an effective teacher, this will include self-reflection, identification of own attributes, strengths, weakness, and areas for development.
• Review of a range of educational philosophies, incorporating behaviourism, humanism, cognitivism, and constructivism.
• The skills needed for successful lesson planning and delivery.
• Exploration of educational strategies, including digital learning, simulation and learning in the alternative environments.
• We will explore best practice in assessment and feedback, including marking workshops.
• The importance of constructive alignment, rigour and quality assurance within education and assessment strategies.
• Ways of learning; identifying and supporting the holistic and diverse needs of the individual student.

The learning and teaching methods include:

• Lectures on educational philosophy, quality assurance, assessment, feedback literacy and ways of learning.
• Workshops on writing learning aims and outcomes, gamification, digital learning and best practice in marking and feedback.
• Small group work and discussion on educational philosophy and pedagogical practices support the student to apply theory to their own developing practice, and informs the teaching, learning and assessment approaches they select.
• Facilitated and observed teaching sessions both within the university and the student’s own working environment underpin the development of the student’s practice.
• Tutorials to aid development.
• Independent Study.

Complete four observed teaching practice assessments and a reflective teaching portfolio, (word count 3,500 words).