Curriculum Information

This module further builds on Professional and Pedagogical Studies 1; student teachers will focus on building up a critical analysis of the following areas: 

• Theories of classroom management, organisation and curriculum design. 

• Effective, evidence-based strategies to meet the needs of learners from diverse cultural, linguistic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds to ensure equity. 

• Extending understanding of signature pedagogies and the use of Pedagogical Principles to develop and build Pedagogical Content Knowledge. 

• Effective, evidence-based approaches to promoting positive behaviour for learning and their impact on learning and teaching.  

• The role of well-being in effective learning, including the ability to identify learners who are at risk of experiencing poor well-being, including examining the most effective models deployed by schools and their partners to improve the well-being of all learners. 

• Supporting student teachers to manage their workload by exploring evidence-informed strategies to support wellbeing and resilience. 

• The enactment of safeguarding and Prevent obligations and their implications for self-evaluation. 

• An extended range of effective, evidence-based questioning techniques and applying these in practice. 

• An extended range of effective, evidence-based approaches to enable learners to become active participants in their own learning. 

• The impact of setting high expectations of all learners. 

• A range of effective, evidence-based approaches to using digital technologies to facilitate the achievement of the Four Purposes of the curriculum. 

• How to use a range of effective, evidence-based strategies for assessment of and for learning systematically and critically to refine teaching and to inform planning for further progress. 

• Trauma-informed practices. 

• Unconscious bias.