Digital Essentials For Classroom Teaching

Digital Essentials For Classroom Teaching

(SCQF level 8)

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Overview

This face-to-face, taught course provides successful candidates with two SQA Units: Developing E-learning Lessons FA53 35 and Developing Online Content F9Y0 35.  This is ideal for you if you are currently teaching, coaching or mentoring learners through formal and informal learning.

This PDA is also relevant for college lecturers, school teachers, tutors, trainers and other staff who are involved in the delivery of learning in schools, Further Education, community, voluntary and private training providers. It may also be attractive to you if you are a new member of staff and wish to enhance your practice by making effective use of ICT resources.

The PDA provides you with opportunities to use digital teaching in your work with learners.

This is a taught course with required attendance, face-to-face input sessions. There are no observations of your teaching practice.

You will be required to attend college for 2 hours per week, 17:00-19:00 every Thursday during the course.

Minimum entry requirements

Entrance qualifications are given below, but please note that relevant work experience will be taken into consideration.  You must have current or past teaching, tutoring or mentoring experience (to any age group or level). This will not be arranged by the tutor team.

You are expected to have the equivalent of the following:

  • Communication skills at SCQF level 5.
  • IT skills at level 5.
  • Problem solving skills at level 5.

Additional selection requirements
  • You'll have a remote or face-to-face interview where you can find out more about the course and tell us why you're interested in this subject area.

What you study

The two HN (SCQF level 8) units are:

  • Developing e-learning lessons FA53 35.
  • Developing online content F9Y0 35.

You will be assessed continuously throughout this course by completing the following tasks:

  • Create Individual Digital Skills Profiles of two students.
  • Design and evaluate two digital learning resources.
  • Assess two students digitally, using a digital tool that you have adapted and evaluated.
  • Evaluate two digital tools that you used to support digital literacy.
  • Create two detailed teaching session plans - one for face-to-face teaching and one for remote teaching.
  • Evaluate your development of your digital teaching skills, with an action plan.

There is no final examination.

After the course

This will have an opportunity to gain valuable continuing professional development in the use of e-learning resources. These units will also help College Lecturers develop the knowledge and skills that could lead into SQA’s PDA Teaching Practice in Scotland’s Colleges and the Teaching Qualification in Further Education (TQFE). These 2 units are 2 of the 4 units you need for the Professional Development Award (PDA) Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching.

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