Education

Exploring Teaching in Schools

Module code: X5900E
Level 5
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Seminar
Assessment modes: Log, Presentation

Are you interested in becoming a teacher? Have you ever wondered if you have the potential to work with young people in schools? This module offers you a structured and supportive introduction.

You’ll learn about policy, theory and practice in education, gaining an understanding of the teacher’s role, including:

• the professional standards required for Qualified Teacher Status
• issues around child wellbeing
• safeguarding
• and professional values.

You’ll also observe and work with teachers and other school professionals.

This module helps you to discover the challenges and rewards of working in schools. You’ll explore career pathways - including the University of Sussex’s PGCE programme - and develop the personal and transferable skills valued by graduate employers.

Module learning outcomes

• Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how pupil well being, safeguarding and teaching and learning is organised in school settings
• Demonstrate an ability to reflect on and evaluate learning in a school context based on professional and scholarly literature and analytical reflection on experience and observations
• Communicate knowledge and understanding clearly and effectively in an appropriate format for a range of professional and academic audiences both orally and in writing