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2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LEED2300 Graduate Skills for Professional Development

20 creditsClass Size: 30

Module manager: Andrew Lockwood
Email: a.lockwood@leeds.ac.uk

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

Year running 2017/18

Module replaces

LEED2004 - The LEEDS Award

This module is approved as a discovery module

This module is approved as a skills discovery module

Module summary

Formerly - LEED2004 - The LEEDS AwardAre you seeking to enhance your CV? Are you undertaking projects or activities to improve your employability? Would you like this recognised formally? The Graduate Skills module is worth 20 credits and is one that recognises the contribution that you make to the University and society, and through a variety of activities supports and enhances that experience. You may be a committee member of a society, teaching English to asylum seekers, or running your own business – any of these types of activity can form the basis of your module ‘placement’. Supporting your focus activity, you undertake an agreed training package, deliver your activity and use this as a focus for identifying, developing and reflecting upon the employability skills that you gain from this experience, and are exposed to some of the ethical issues surrounding participation, leadership and volunteering.Designated a Special Skills module, and so available to students across all degree programmes, this module is normally taken by level 2 and 3 students. This module is recognised on your transcript. If you are a returning student you should enrol for this module online; following enrolment you will receive an email from Sport & Physical Activity requesting further information, and will need to make contact with the Module Manager to ensure that the activity that you wish to use as the focus for the module is appropriate. Dependent on that activity, you may need to complete a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check ideally before you leave University for the summer vacation.

Objectives

The module objectives are to show students;
- How to undertake a reflective log;
- How to deliver an activity in a teaching/coaching/leading/volunteering context;
- How to deliver appropriate first aid;
- Child abuse and the handling of potential related situations;
- Ethical issues surrounding for example, the teaching and coaching of activities, leadership and volunteering.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to;
- Be able to demonstrate that they have taken a significant role in leading an activity over an extended period of time;
- Understand the employability skills underpinning the role that they have taken and how these have developed over the period of time;
- Have developed skills specific to the role that they are undertaking, as a prerequisite, including where appropriate First Aid, Safeguarding and Protecting children and DBS check;
- Have developed and be able to evidence a number of transferable skills, including time management, presentation, oral and written communication, observational, analytical and reflective skills;
- Have an understanding of ethical issues, for example those surrounding the teaching and coaching of activities, leadership and volunteering. Be able to demonstrate employability skills;
- Be able to demonstrate self-awareness and an understanding of the way in which their role in leading the activity has impacted on, and is impacted upon by, others with whom they are working.

Syllabus

-Plan a course of training supporting the placement activity of the individual, which may or may not include completing a teaching/coaching/officiating course in an activity leading to a National Governing Body qualification.
- As part of the training package, complete a First Aid Course at the appropriate level, up to and including H.S.E. Qualified First Aid at Work, and attend a Safeguarding and Protecting Children workshop if appropriate.
-Undertake a significant role in leading an activity over an extended period of time.
-Be checked against the Disclosure and Barring Service, if appropriate.
- Complete an Activity Record, documenting progress through the module, together with plans and evaluations of sessions/activities led.
-Be introduced to some of the principles behind leading, coaching and teaching, planning and observation.
- Be introduced to ethical issues surrounding the teaching and coaching of activities, leadership and volunteering.
- Be introduced to employability skills and be required to identify and develop these, including how to write a CV, letter of application and interview techniques
- Complete a detailed log reflecting on self and others.
- Attend individual tutorials to monitor and discuss progress

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Induction Session	2	1.00	2.00
Placement	24	1.00	24.00
Technical Training	1	24.00	24.00
Class tests, exams and assessment	1	4.00	4.00
Fieldwork	24	1.00	24.00
Practical	2	1.00	2.00
Seminar	18	1.50	27.00
Tutorial	8	0.25	3.00
Private study hours			90.00
Total Contact hours			110.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Preparation and evaluation of sessions led/delivered: 24 hours
Preparations for assessments:60 hours
Preparations for tutorials/activity record completion: 6 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Monitoring of the Activity Record through tutorials - these will form the basis of individual action planning and evaluation as well as progress in the placement.

Registers of attendance at tutorials, lectures, seminars and practical classes kept, and absences followed up by the module manager.

Liaison with the placement host or equivalent to enable any problems to be addressed.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	Written critique of the students performance in applying for a job including the interview, following feedback 1,800-2,200 words	40.00
Reflective log	3,600-4,400 words or equivalent	60.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The coursework requirements which are not assessed directly but which must be completed are: - Completed activity record, NGB award or equivalent training package, CRB check, First aid course, regular attendance at placement.

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 07/04/2017

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