This module focuses on the behaviours and needs of the learner and the implications of this for teachers.
You will explore how different conditions for learning are established and how they are influenced by school-based factors, as well as the range of other factors that can inhibit or promote pupils’ ability to learn, including children’s social, physical and cognitive development.
The module sessions, student discussion and reflection, supplemented by school experience, will reference current research, including aspects of neuroscience, learning theory from seminal theorists and the observation of learning behaviours and environments in school. This will help you establish the links between theory and effective practice, as well as highlighting issues regarding children’s holistic development, which may impact learning in the classroom.
The module will support the key study skills needed for reading and writing at HE Level 4. It also includes 12 days of school experience, enabling student teachers to begin to understand how the teacher as researcher can be effective in shaping classroom practice.
