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The aim of this module is to provide students with a well-rounded and broad education that equips the graduate with the in-depth knowledge, theory and methodologies of the discipline to enable them to demonstrate initiative and responsibility in an academic and professional context within an inclusive education framework.  In particular, it will assist students in developing the ability to plan learning programmes using the knowledge and skills acquired in the previous two modules. Furthermore, students will be engaged in the development of two projects- one on the research and application of IKS in Science education as well as the development of an issue-based environmental education project.

Aims of the Course:

•        The main purpose of this module is for student teachers to engage critically with pedagogical knowledge, skills and values related to the teaching and learning of Music in the Further Education & Training Phase in the national school curriculum. 

•        To introduce students to the music school curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment as it relates to teaching of Music. To prepare students to be able to teach the main components of Music competently in the senior phase (Grades 10-12).

The module focuses on understanding curriculum as a significant factor in teacher professional learning and practice. The purpose is to explore various relevant issues and perspectives about curriculum, particularly teachers’ enactment of curriculum policy. The purpose of the module is not to teach you how to implement the CAPS curriculum.

 Some key questions we will consider are:

What are some key curriculum concepts?

How does the purpose of schooling influence the official curriculum?

What knowledge, skills and values are worthwhile teaching at school?

What factors affect teachers’ interpretation and implementation of curriculum policy?

In what ways do teachers take agency when implementing the official curriculum in their classrooms?

In what ways has the South African school curriculum changed?

  Teacher Agency in Professional Learning ( EDPD713)

   Focus and purpose of the module

a. The module aims to introduce students to the critical concept of teacher professional learning and allow students to reflectively examine teacher agency in professional learning.

b. The module aims to introduce students to creative and participatory approaches to exploring and facilitating teacher professional learning.

c. The module aims to support some foundational academic writing elements, including taking a process approach to writing, analysing assignment instructions, planning and structuring paragraphs, writing introductions and conclusions, and using the prescribed referencing style for essential in-text citations and references.

Some key questions we will consider in this module are:

Ø  What is teacher professional learning?

Ø  What is teacher agency?

Ø  How does teacher agency in professional learning happen?

Ø  Why does teacher agency in professional learning matter?

 What is teacher professional learning?

What is teacher agency?

 Key concepts that we will explore will include:

Ø  teacher professional learning

Ø  teacher agency

Ø  memory-work

Ø  social networking

Ø  professional learning networks

Welcome to the module Conceptualising Teacher Development (EDPD807).

The purpose of the module is for you to reflect on the concept of teacher professional learning in a scholarly way that links to your own experience of learning to become a teacher.

• Understand some key concepts in teacher learning and professional development and use these in discussions, writing and reporting.
• Describe the different discourses that underpin different models of professional development.
• Identify and understand the different theories that explain teacher learning.
• Understand teacher development in/through a social, professional and personal frame.
• Examine policy documents that regulate professional development and identify the concepts, discourses and assumptions that underpin them.

Welcome to Foundational Chemistry (EDPS110), a module dedicated to developing your knowledge of chemistry with a particular focus on Analytical and some aspects of Inorganic Chemistry. Completing the module will equip you with the necessary skills in chemical reaction analytics, critical aspects of secondary science teaching.