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Overview
Face to Face, Taught Mode
This course provides you with the Professional Development Award (PDA) Teaching Practice in Scotland's Colleges. The course is ideal for you if you are currently employed in a teaching role in further education or equivalent. This is a taught course with required attendance, face-to-face input sessions and teaching observations. Further details of the topics covered are provided in the section "what you study" below.
You will be assessed continuously throughout this course with the assignments taking the form of observation of your teaching, lesson planning and reflective assignments. There is no final examination.
You will be required to attend college for 2 hours per week, 17.00-19.00 every Wednesday during the course, as well as being observed twice in your own teaching situation.
Minimum entry requirements
PDA Teaching Practice in Scotland's Colleges entrance qualifications are given below, but please note that relevant work experience will be taken into consideration.
- You must teach a minimum class contact time of 2 hours per week throughout the course.
- This will be teaching classes of minimum 6 adult learners in further education or equivalent.
- You must be teaching courses leading to qualifications awarded by an external body e.g. City and Guilds or SQA.
You need to make your own arrangements for your teaching and have this in place before signing up for this course. This will not be arranged by the tutor team. The cost of this course includes 2 observations of your teaching within a 50-mile radius of City of Glasgow College.
If you are teaching outside this area, please contact us to discuss your requirements and how these may be accommodated. Please note that this may incur a supplementary fee to cover additional costs.
You are expected to have the equivalent of the following:
- Communication skills at SCQF level 6.
- Numeracy skills at SCQF level 4.
- IT skills at level 5.
Additional selection requirements
- You'll have a skype, phone 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
This Group Award comprises of two HN (SCQF level 9) units based on the professional standards for lecturing staff in Further Education Colleges.
The units are:
- Plan and Prepare the Learning Experience (H416 36).
- Learning and Teaching (H417 36).
In the course, you will create:
- A profile for a group of learners.
- An inclusive learning, teaching and assessment plan for a minimum of 20 hours of learning.
- 4 detailed and consecutive lesson plans.
- A 750-word evaluative report justifying and evaluating your selection of learning and teaching activities, assessment instruments and resources.
- A 500-word commentary of how the learners were provided with feedback on assessment.
- A 500-word commentary on the two observed teaching sessions.
In addition, you will be observed teaching by a tutor in your own teaching situation. This will be arranged twice on mutually convenient days and times during your course. The observation is a minimum of two teaching sessions covering a minimum of four hours of teaching.