Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
5508ICPDQS-SEP-PAR
Aims
This unit aims to enable learners to experience the scope and depth of learning which may take place in a work-based context by planning, monitoring and evaluating the work experience.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Identify duties of a quantity surveyor at industry level.
2.
Apply the specific requirements of the placement as a quantity surveyor & skill requirement at various stages of a construction project.
3.
Apply and demonstrate work experience as identified.
4.
Monitor and explain own performance and learning.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Suitable organisation and location
Supervisors: roles and responsibilities of academic and industrial mentors
Expectations of learning: proficiency in new tasks and procedures, time-management and problem-solving skills, reflection, discuss progress with others, teamwork
Tasks: details of activities: specific hourly, daily, weekly routine and non- routine tasks, breakdown of a project into stages, new procedures/protocol
Prioritise: reasons for rationalisation of the order of tasks, methods of prioritising work
Plan for the work experience
Benefits to organisation and learner
Negotiation: methods of contacting organisations, methods of undertaking negotiations
Business constraints
Revise the initial plan as required
Nature of duties: type of undertaking
Carry out the planned activities
Account of learning during the work experience
Record activities in the appropriate manner
Evaluation of the quality of the work undertaken
Recommendations on how the learning experience could have been enhance & alternative ideas