Hey, well done! You’ve got your strategies and learning outcomes in place now. Make sure you remember to submit your completed assessment to us.
Just to recap:
- Your strategies focus on the big picture – usually, your programme as a whole.
- Your learning outcomes focus on a narrow slice of this bigger picture. The focus is on some very specific teaching and assessing that you want to do.
All that’s left from here is the project work. The project work is the teaching practice part of the course. There are three assessments, and they are linked together. Think of them as one project.
- Assessment 5 – BEFORE: Looking at diagnostic assessment and learning plans.
- Assessment 6 – TEACHING: Planning and facilitating embedded activities.
- Assessment 7 – AFTER: Measuring learner progress in literacy and numeracy.
The connection between the tasks is that you’ll need to track the same learners through the three stages. And you’ll report back on how you and they get on at each stage.
Before we move on, though, have a think about your answers to the questions below. The questions aren’t assessed, but talking about what you think with someone, particularly a colleague, will help you engage with the learning more deeply.
Strategies and learning outcomes
- Do you feel that you have described your context accurately and concisely?
- Are you clear on what some of the main opportunities and constraints are that you have in front of you?
- Are you confident that you can describe a broad, “big picture” strategy for embedding both literacy and numeracy into your programme?
- Are you confident that you can describe some specific learning outcomes for embedding aspects of this strategy into your teaching?
