Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Arts Education
PGCHE2/a Managing the Learning Community
Assessment Assignment
1. Overview
The assessment assignment for this module requires participants to complete the following activities:
• Micro-Teaching Assignment (Examination Mark – 60%):
Design and deliver a 30 minute micro-teaching session on a topic related to your subject discipline.
• Evaluative Documentation (Examination Mark – 40%)
Produce an evaluative report which critically evaluates your micro teaching session.
Maintain and submit a reflective Journal covering the period of the module.
2. Guidance for the Micro-Teaching Assignment
Each participant is required to design and deliver a 30 minute micro-teaching session on a topic related to their subject discipline. Each session will be observed by an Assessor and Peer Assessor.
It will be your responsibility to identify a suitable cohort of learners to participate in your session. The cohort of learners can be drawn from a group of students you are currently teaching or from your peers.
You are required to produce a session (lesson) plan that:
· Stipulates the Learning objectives (outcomes) for your session taking into account prior knowledge, skills and understanding.
· Describes the learning activity(s) to be carried out during your session. The description of your learning activity(s) must state:
o what learning and teaching approaches you will use;
o what issues/obstacles to learning your approach is designed to overcome;
o how your session is promoting equal opportunities and inclusivity;
o how you plan to organise the learning environment to ensure effective learning takes place safely and efficiently.
· Stipulates how you plan to assess what learning has taken place during the session.
All micro teaching sessions will take place on Thursday 26th February between 6 and 9 pm. It will be your responsibility to secure a suitable learning environment to deliver your session in and to ensure that any equipment and resources needed are in place and operational in advance of the session starting.
3. Guidance for the Evaluative Documentation
You are required to reflect upon and self evaluate your mico-teaching session and produce an evaluative report of approximately 2000 words that:
· Introduces your micro-teaching session;
· Justifies your decisions in relation to:
o Content
o Learning and teaching approaches and their appropriateness (bearing in mind the concept of inclusive educational practice leading to optimum participation).
In your justification you must demonstrate how professional literature has influenced your decisions, thinking and professional practice.
· Critically analyses your practice. In your analysis you should consider:
o The ways in which your increased understanding and knowledge have impacted upon your own teaching style and methodological approach.
o Any issues and obstacles to learning you encountered (particularly in relation to accessibility and equal opportunities) and the extent to which your teaching approach helped you to address the issue/obstacle(s).
o Cultural and social contexts that you had to address when designing and delivering your session.
o The extent to which developmental and collaborative processes in your session enhanced learning.
o The way in which you organised and managed the learning environment during your session
Your analysis must be underpinned by robust reference to professional literature.
Your EVALUATIVE REPORT is be submitted by email to Julia Fotheringham (julia.fotheringham@scotlandscolleges.ac.uk) by Monday 2 March 2009 by 5 pm at the latest.
4. Guidance for the Reflective Journal
You are required to keep a reflective journal for this module. The reflections in your journal should be used to inform the design of your micro teaching session and its evaluation. There is no defined word length for this work.
Your REFLECTIVE JOURNAL is be submitted by email to Julia Fotheringham by Monday 2 March 2009 by 5 pm at the latest. For those participants who are keeping electronic journals (e.g. blogs) you must submit details of how to access your journal online to your tutor.
5. Submissions
Participants are required to submit the following:
a) Session Plan ( to be submitted on the evening of the Micro-Teaching Session)
b) Evaluative Report
c) Reflective Journal
The evaluative report and the reflective journal must be submitted by email to Julia Fotheringham (julia.fotheringham@scotlandscolleges.ac.uk) no later than 5 pm on Monday 2 March 09.
6. Marking
All submissions will be marked using the assessment matrix which is provided on Pages 41 and 42 of the Programme Handbook.
