Placement 4 (U04492)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : EDU-4-Placement

Placement 4 is the last of a series across the four years of the programme. The placement sequence is based on a chronological model. In Placement 4 students are offered the choice between working at early stages (Nursery/P1, or P2 or P3) or middle (P4, P5) or upper (P6, P7). In Placement 4, students need to demonstrate that they are developing further professional knowledge and understanding, increasing abilities and sound professional values. The context provides increased time, and increased opportunities for independent action, to address these aspects. By the end of Placement 4, students should feel that they have been suitably challenged in preparation for their induction year. key feature of this placement is that students undertake a piece of research called the professional project.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Education, (The Moray House School of Education, Schedule C)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 4 hour(s) per week for 4 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 35 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Laboratory	Monday	09:00	09:50	External

? Additional Class Information : Block placement of 11 weeks commences January to March

Preparation classes prior to the block placement

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The purposes of Placement 4 are to develop understanding, professional competence and sound values in relation to:

- planning, teaching and assessing an appropriate curriculum for a class over an extended period (20 days), with regard to individual differences;
- developing and implementing an effective strategy for organizing learning and class management;
- assessment and recording, systematically, pupils progress in learning across the curriculum, including suggestions for next steps;
- negotiating, co-operating with, and respecting, school colleagues other professionals, and parents, regarding pupil learning and welfare;
- self-evaluation to improve teaching and learning
- broader school issues, in particular policy and practice relating to primary-secondary transition;
- systematic research on a selected aspect of a teaching programme;
- commitment to the profession, including taking responsibility for their own professional development.

Assessment Information

As in previous placements, assessment of Placement 4 is based on a grading of satisfactory/unsatisfactory against the SITE categories on the placement assessment profile. Students must achieve the learning outcomes by the end of the block placement. Both university tutors and school mentors have a key role in assessment.

Evidence of achievement of the Learning Outcomes is derived from:

• Student performance in organising, managing, planning, teaching and assessing a class over a sustained period of twenty consecutive days
• The Teaching File
• The Professional Development Portfolio, containing written tasks and Progress Review
• Focussed discussion prior to completion of the assessment profiles.

Details of how these assessment points are overtaken are given to the students in writing in the full Placement 4 documentation.