Introduction to Teachers and Teaching

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Select and apply relevant research-based literature and policy documents to support your understanding
• Discuss ways in which different educational contexts affect and are affected by teachers
• Explain some of the complexity of what it means to become and be a teacher
• Organise and articulate your arguments in relation to themes raised in the module, both orally in class and in the written assignment
• Reflect on how personal experience and/or representations of teachers in the media and popular culture can influence perceptions of teachers and teaching

• What is teaching? Why do people choose to teach?
• 'Apprenticeship of observation' and how this relates to teaching in schools;
• Teachers as people; teacher development, socialisation and demographics;
• Research studies and evidence relating to teacher training, in-service continuing professional development and teacher effectiveness;
• Public and media depictions of teachers and how these may affect perceptions of the teaching profession.

• Directed pre-reading
• Lectures
• Directed seminar tasks building on lecture content. These might include:
• Small-group and individual formative work
• Structured debates and discussions
• Small group presentation (not summatively assessed)

Typically, this module is taught through weekly sessions (lecture + seminar) plus one optional tutorial session to prepare for the assessment.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Assessed written tasks

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.