Teaching CPD E-Learning Modules
Summary of the Content of Teaching Support Modules.
Creative Teaching Module 1
This module looks at the characteristics of creative and innovative teaching methods and the relevance of :
- Technology mediated learning
- Active Learning Techniques
- Games, Creating & Making learning activities
- Skills Learning
to tutors’ teaching practice.
Creative Teaching Module 2
This module looks at:
- The basic elements of Whole Brain or Power Teaching.
- The importance of ensuring that where technology is used, it adds value to the learning event.
- What Blended Learning is and how it can be incorporated within your teaching.
- Producing a robust personal Teaching Improvement Strategy.
- Identifying at least 3 creative teaching methods you could use in your teaching.
Initial Diagnostics & Assessment Module.
This module looks at:
- Why initial diagnostics are important.
- Why it is important and how, we can ensure that initial diagnostics are proportionate, appropriately sophisticated, and cover all the things they need to.
- How to integrate course specific and other initial assessment activities and why this is important.
- Why we need to make activities gradually more difficult for diagnostic purposes.
- How initial diagnostics for areas like literacy and numeracy can be integrated with subject specific diagnostic activities.
- The importance of thinking about the approach taken with learners.
Stretch & Challenge Module
This module looks at:
- What is meant by the phrase stretch and challenge in an adult learning setting.
- Differentiation of teaching, learning and assessment.
- The benefits to learners of differentiated learning activities.
- Nine effective techniques of differentiation.
- Stretch and challenge in a range of learning contexts.
Learning Support
This module looks at:
- What is meant by the term ‘learning support’ in an adult learning context?
- The types of learning support needs learners may have.
- The indicators that a learner may be in need of support.
- The types of support all tutors should be able to provide with basic English and Math skills, and ICT.
- Circumstances where the support required is quite significant and a case for an LSA needs to be made, or possibly a specialist diagnostic is needed.
Target Setting
This module looks at:
- Why we develop targets with learners
- Identifying different types of targets that need to be used
- Different ways to help learners own their targets
- Identifying the characteristics of well-written targets
- Developing action plans to help learners achieve their targets.
Session Planning
This module looks at:
- The purpose of a session plan.
- Session plan structures.
- The importance of well defined session learning outcomes.
- Session-content sequencing.
- Timings for learning activities in sessions.
- What has to be taken into account regarding accommodation and equipment availability when developing session plans.
- The concept of episodes to support effective session planning.
Learning Outcomes
This module looks at:
- The purposes a session learning outcome serves.
- The difference between an Outcome and an Objective.
- 5 types of learning outcomes and how these can apply to different subjects.
- The 3 domains of learning and how these relate to the learning outcomes.
- The application of conditions and standards / quality to learning outcomes.
Embedding Math and English Introduction Module.
This module looks at:
- Why you are being asked to incorporate Math and English skills development opportunities within the subject you teach.
- The benefits to learners of enhancing their Math and English skills.
- That tutors are not being asked to become Math and English teachers or artificially insert English and Maths into courses.
- The purpose and value of doing a Math and English skills audit and how it should impact on course and delivery.
- How Peer Support can play a role in implementing Math and English development opportunities.
Embedding English Module.
This module looks at:
- The categories and sub-categories we can use to describe the English skills that we should seek to provide development opportunities for.
- Practical ways of embedding:
- speaking listening and communicating skills development opportunities
- reading skills development opportunities
- writing skills development opportunities.
Classroom Management
This module looks at:
- How to create an engaging and stimulating learning environment.
- The value of and how to create appropriate and effective ground rules to regulate the learning environment.
- What effective behaviour management in adult learning contexts looks like.
- How effective organisation of resources and equipment helps to facilitate efficient learning.
- How the visual dimensions of the learning environment can contribute to learning.
- How the organisation of the learning area seating arrangements can enable or inhibit learning.
- How organising who sits with whom contributes to learning.
Assessment
This module looks at:
- what is meant by the term 'assessment', the different types of assessment, the activities assessment involves and whether you need to extend the range of assessment methods you use
- what an assessment strategy is and looks like, how the detail of a strategy can be developed, and how we go about choosing and amending an assessment strategy
- what formative assessment is and the role of questioning to enable learning
- common types of questions, how tutors can improve questioning methods including how questions can be asked at different levels to stretch and challenge learners
- how both Bloom's and Dalton's taxonomy can help tutors use questioning more effectively
- the wide range of assessment techniques tutors can use to enable and check learning
- the features of both poorly designed and well-designed assessments
- what effective summative assessment design and implementation looks like
- Internal Verifier tasks which check assessment decisions and assessment design
- the creation and use of assessment evidence portfolios, paper-based and e-portfolios
- significant considerations for the selection and implementation of commercial e-portfolios.
Embedding Math Module
This module looks at:
- the specific types off Math skills that could be explored in and through the subject you teach
- practical ways of embedding a range of different Math skills (as they apply to the subject you teach) including:
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- basic Math operations
- measurement / estimation
- data analysis
- representation of data
- number operations.
Self Evaluation
This module looks at:
- what robust self evaluation criteria look like
- identifying what a tutors’ teaching and training strengths are, and identifying areas where there is scope for improvement
- how tutors can go about achieving improvement to their teaching or training practice
- how learner feedback can and should inform how tutors’ evaluate their teaching.
RARPA
This module looks at:
- What is RARPA?
- Why RARPA exists?
- What the 5 stages of RARPA are.
- How RARPA applies to your teaching.
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