2016/17 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC5015M Developing Teaching and Learning Through Evidence-based Practice

30 creditsClass Size: 25

Module manager: Dr Indira Banner
Email: I.Banner@education.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

This module aims to help students to:
- improve their professional practice
- develop a critical understanding of theoretical and practical perspectives of teaching and learning in relation to: the importance of language, learning theory, barriers to learning and motivation
- develop practitioner enquiry skills
- use current research findings to support professional practice
- develop skills for collaborative working and dissemination

Learning outcomes
1. By engaging successfully with this module students will acquire a comprehensive knowledge and a critical understand of the following aspects of professional concern:
- the structure, content and flow of teacher-pupil dialogue and how it contributes to effective teaching and learning
- bilingual pupils and some practical classroom strategies for supporting their learning
- key contemporary theories on how children learn
- how to apply theory to support the critical analysis of classroom practice and to facilitate effective teaching
- a range of factors that can impede pupils' learning
- the concepts of motivation and engagement as applied to pupil learning
- how to apply practical classroom strategies to address barrier to children's learning

2. By engaging successfully with this module students will acquire a comprehensive knowledge and a critical understand of the action-enquiry cycle as applied to teaching for the purpose of supporting professional practice, specifically:
- a comprehensive understanding of a range of techniques applicable to their own professional enquiry (as specified in the module content)
- a practical understanding of how established techniques of enquiry are used to create, interpret and inform professional practice
- skills in communicating and disseminating enquiry findings effectively to other professionals
- an ability to critically evaluate current research in the field of education
- an ability to evidence advanced scholarship

Skills outcomes
In addition to the skills of practitioner enquiry (above) by engaging successfully with this module students will develop advanced professional skills in:
- planning teaching and learning for individuals and groups of learners
- teaching
- enquiring into, evaluating and reflecting on their own professional practice
- identifying their professional development needs
- sharing good practice and enquiry findings with other professionals

Syllabus

The content of this module is as follows:
- the importance of teacher-pupil dialogue and its influence on learning
- analysing classroom dialogue
- understanding bilingual learners and their learning needs
- theoretical perspectives on teaching and learning, including constructivist and social constructivist perspectives
- application of theory to classroom practice and how theory can be used to analyse and inform classroom practice
- barriers to children's learning and strategies (at departmental and classroom levels) to address barriers to learning and to support pupils' progress
- how children's motivation and engagement can be influenced by a range of factors
- how pupil motivation and engagement can be measured in the classroom

Throughout this module approaches to practitioner enquiry and practitioner enquiry skills will be introduced, that is:
- the action research cycle and practitioner enquiry
- introduction to classroom observation
- analysing transcripts of classroom dialogue
- interpreting school and national attainment data
- questionnaire techniques
- interviewing techniques

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Class tests, exams and assessment	1	50.00	50.00
Lecture	9	2.00	18.00
Seminar	4	2.00	8.00
Tutorial	2	0.50	1.00
Independent online learning hours			50.00
Private study hours			173.00
Total Contact hours			77.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Private study - independent learning time will be spent preparing the module assignments, preparing and following-up taught sessions (that is, though reading and school-based tasks) and reading more widely around the module content.

Independent on-line learning will be via the VLE and email. The VLE will contain study materials and will facilitate discussion between students. Tutor support for students’ preparation of the module assignment will utilise both the VLE (group support) and email (individual support).

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored by the tutor in the following ways:
- contribution to lectures and seminars, e.g., feedback on school-based tasks, reading and comment on professional practice
- contribution to individual tutorials – face-to-face and on-line
- progress with the module assignments including draft materials

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1) Analysis and evaluation of classroom dialogue 3000 words	50.00
Essay	2) Analysis of barriers to learning and how these might be addressed 3000 words	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 17/05/2017

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