Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
4501EYCOLC-SEP-PAR
Aims
To facilitate the participation of students in personal and professional reflection aimed at setting, planning and developing personal, academic and professional goals.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Explore the wide range of learning opportunities available to support own academic development, and reflect on how these have been effectively used
2.
Reflect on developing skills in reading, note taking and thinking critically when producing written work
3.
Discuss teamwork skills and evaluate team processes
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Study skills: critical reading, note taking, searching the literature using electronic and other means, use of ICT and Virtual Learning Environments to enhance students’ learning and academic skills, effective writing skills, citing and referencing sources of information, producing spread sheets, using data bases, word processing, storing and retrieving information, assignment structuring and presentation, avoiding academic impropriety, reflecting on module learning in relation to application to practice, presentation skills, Bloom’s taxonomy.
Personal and professional skills: team working and team process, reflective practice, goal setting, Berne’s Transactional Analysis, assertiveness, encouraging autonomy, metacognition and constructing own meaning from learning.
Additional Information:This module provides the student new to higher education with an opportunity to reflect upon and develop their personal, academic and professional skills. The module will include diagnostic tools such as learning styles questionnaire, ICT skills audit and skill development, action planning related to assignment feedback, practice reports from mentors and reflective statements related to module learning.
Students will receive assessed feedback from their mentor regarding practice.
The module provides a firm foundation upon which the Year 2 Reflection in the Early Years module will build.
Assessments
Portfolio