Develop professional development in your chosen area of focus.

Assignment Guide

 

Module Summary – Develop professional development in your chosen area of focus. (Structured Report)

 

Focus of the assignment: 2 Strands.

  • A Pedagogic Focus on the issue or aspect of teaching and learning that is to be addressed through the collaborative activity and on the development of pedagogic practice in the phase specific setting.
  • A focus on the processes involved in professional collaborative development activities and their effectiveness in developing professional practice in your setting.

 

Structure of the essay –

Part 1 and 2 – Pedagogical Approach

Part 3 – Step back and analyses the process you been through

Part 4 – conclusions, implementations further explanations of any emerges

 

Part 1: Pedagogical approach example – I say you say: (Modeling Vocabulary)

 

Part 2 – Effectiveness of the learning behaviors of children.

  • Planning – 2/3 lessons – Overview and aims, Learning objectives
  • Observations
  • Reflect and plan – what does this tell us about how ch learn and develop in this area?

What is good?

What isn’t working?

Additional learning strategies?

 

Part 3 – Collaborative PD

 

Part 4 – Conclusion

 

Introduction:

Brief introduction into the whole essay.

Part 1: Pedagogical Focus

  • Analyse the school/class data and decide on area of focus
  • Doing the reading that underpins the area of focus. Critically analyse
  • Revisiting the focus and deciding on a specific target research question e.g. My turn your turn (enforcing vocabulary)
  • Literature which underpins the focus. What does research tell us?
  • Subject specific to the focus. E.g., Maths, reading, writing.
  • Link literature to School context
  • Come up with a research question?

Part 2: Pedagogical Focus

  • Planning 2/3 lessons – (Delivering the strategy which you have extrapolated from the research)
  • Observing and reflecting on the outcomes.
  • Reworking the lesson – What you did to improve the lesson?
  • Draw out the main conclusion (What does the data tell us about how children develop in this area?)
  • Chose a focus group from the class of children. (3 or 4 children from the class)
  • Structured report – How you conducted the lesson. (Planning – Lesson objectives/outcomes and Observations, why you’re collecting the data and what you looking for?)
  • Rational for lesson observations.

Part 3: Collaborative process

 

  • Step back, how was this as a process?
  • Analyze the area of focus

Part 4: Moving forward

  • Wider implication
  • Any Unsolved question
  • Any further reading to develop the practice in this area