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PGTA Refining Professional Practice (X1061)

30 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll develop the skills and knowledge needed for teaching, learning and understanding children’s wellbeing.

The module had two core strands – Professional Studies and Curriculum Studies. Each strand consists of mainly on-the-job learning, with campus-based teaching to support you.

In Professional Studies, you’ll explore the frameworks that schools, early years settings, teachers and fellow professionals operate in. This includes the Teachers’ Standards and the ITTECF. You’ll cover key themes in taught sessions, such as:

• SEND
• rersonal, social, health and citizenship education
• adaptive teaching
• the management of pupil behaviour
• summative assessment and safeguarding.

On-the-job learning is supported by:

• a trained mentor
• a programme of weekly lesson observations
• mentor meetings
• the development of an e-portfolio of practice-based evidence.

Through a series of school-based tasks, you’ll apply knowledge learned in campus-based sessions to develop professional resilience, communication and reflection.

In Curriculum Studies, you’ll develop your knowledge of pedagogy and how to mentor, plan, and teach lessons in your chosen subject or phase.

The teaching team will assess your work through tri-partite reviews, identifying on-the-job opportunities. You’ll make use of online learning platforms and e-portfolios to link your on-the-job and off-the-job learning.

We offer flexible:

• face-to-face on-campus teaching
• online seminars
• remote supervision and support
• webinars and flipped learning
• learning opportunities.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 31 hours of contact time and about 269 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.