Course description
Art of Learning and Teaching
This module aims to provide youwith the opportunity to increase yourknowledge and understanding of the complexities of learning and teaching, assessment, and evaluation, in order for you to reviewand enhance your expertise in these areas of professional practice.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 7
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, youwill be able to:
- Creatively develop a critical, reflective and innovative approach to teaching and learning in educational and practice settings, and formulate plans for yourown professional development.
- Identify the characteristics of quality learning and select appropriate assessment and evaluation strategies in order to determine the extent to which the desired learning outcomes have been achieved.
- Create and develop effective learning environments through facilitating and establishing positive relationships and ensuring that the principles of equal opportunities are adhered to.
- Select, plan and implement a range of teaching and learning strategies andfacilitate learning across a range of educational and practice settings, and utilise a range of learning resources including information technology.
- Identify and respond to the needs of individual learners ensuring that they access the necessary support and facilitate their progress into becoming autonomous learners.
- Effectively utilise the information gained from assessment and evaluation in order to aid self-reflection and self-development.
Training Course Content
Indicative module content includes:
- Skills and qualities of an effective teacher
- Educational philosophy
- Planning learning opportunities
- Selecting learning strategies
- Identifying needs and supporting learners
- The simulated environment
- Assessment and feedback strategies relevant in a variety of settings
- Using feedback for professional development
- Evaluating teaching and learning processes
- Marking and grading educational assessment.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Teacher-led sessions
- Student-led workshops
- Group work
- Discussion groups
- Problem-based learning
- Enquiry-based learning
- Action learning
- Role modelling
- Peer review.