Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE EDU3218

 
TITLE Professional Development Portfolio 1

 
UM LEVEL 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 6

 
ECTS CREDITS 2

 
DEPARTMENT Leadership for Learning and Innovation

 
DESCRIPTION This unit will help student teachers to develop their Professional Development Portfolio. In small group tutorial sessions the student teachers will be able to discuss with a tutor how to develop their PDP. The tutorial sessions spread over the third and fourth year of the B.Ed. (Hons.) course are intended to be an interactive forum where concerns, successes and achievements can be shared. The student teachers will learn how to write reflectively about aspects of their professional development as teachers and collect artefacts and record interactions with tutors, teachers and colleague students which will provide evidence of the competences and professional connections they have acquired. Finally the student teachers will actually develop and present their final PDP. This PDP will provide evidence about the student teacher's practice and the thought and reflection that show the process of growth and development from a beginning teacher to a reflective practitioner. The development of the PDP will help student teacher come to know themselves as individuals and as professional teachers.

Required Text:

- The Professional Development Portfolio (Assessment Committee, Faculty of Education, 2001).
- A guide to the Professional Development Portfolio (Assessment Committee, Faculty of Education, 2003).

Suggested Reading:

- Stefani, L, Mason, R. & Pegler, C. (2007). The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios: Supporting Personal Development and Reflective Learning. Routledge, Oxon.

 
ADDITIONAL NOTES This study-unit is offered to all B.Ed. (Hons) Secondary students

This study-unit is assessed on a Pass/Fail basis

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture and Project

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Portfolio SEM2 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S

 

 
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