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Time: 20 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- The OU PGCE has been developed by The Open University and its partner schools to provide an innovative, student-teacher centred approach to initial teacher education. We aim to build on the skills, knowledge...
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| | The teacher's professional role: introduction
- The teacher's professional role: introduction Resource
- In this unit you will begin to consider the nature and purposes of the teacher's professional role. You will be asked to consider specifically what ‘professionalism’ and ‘being a professional’ actually...
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| | 1 The professional role: its nature and purposes
- 1 The professional role: its nature and purposes Resource
- In the different nation states of the United Kingdom, great importance is placed upon teachers meeting a wide set of professional commitments and obligations. Teachers in the UK are required to have a...
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| | 2 The role of the form or group tutor
- 2 The role of the form or group tutor Resource
- You will be expected to meet different sets of requirements in this tutor role. You will, for example, register pupils’ presence or absence twice a day, deal with administrative duties relating to them,...
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- 3.1 Professional relations with pupils Resource
- What is regarded as ‘professional’ must be linked with the in-action responsibilities of the teacher. So, for example, it's clear that the teacher-as-tutor must plan ahead and actually protect pupils from...
- 3.2 Professional relations with colleagues Resource
- The same issues and responses outlined above apply to all colleagues in your school experience.
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| | 4 Who else is involved with successful schools?
- 4 Who else is involved with successful schools? Resource
- What, in your opinion, makes a ‘successful school’? Jot down a list of factors that you consider to be essential ingredients of such a description.
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| | 5 The teacher's contribution to the corporate life of the school
- 5 The teacher's contribution to the corporate life of the school Resource
- Only a few years ago, the catch-all term ‘extra-curricular activities’ would have been viewed as explaining adequately the extent of a teacher's contribution to the school beyond that of their subject-specific...
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| | 6 Statutory professional duties
- 6.1 Introduction Resource
- It may at first sight appear odd to you that this is the final key issue of this unit. This is in no way to reduce the importance of your statutory school duties. It is axiomatic that these must at all...
- 6.2 Your professional duties Resource
- The professional duties outlined in Chapter 12 (pp. 236–7) are wide-ranging and challenging. They relate to what a contractually obligated teacher is expected to do under the ‘reasonable’ direction of...
- 6.3 Health and safety Resource
- Above all things, parents want their children to be safe at school, both physically and emotionally. This notion of being ‘safe’ relates to lesson activities across the curriculum, scheduled both inside...
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- 7 Summary Resource
- We hope that you have found this unit interesting and challenging. The issues raised go to the heart of the work of the teacher-as-tutor, and so are challenging. The processes and procedures you find in...
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- 8 Optional reading Resource
- Chapter 13, ‘Effective and improving schools’, by H. Bourdillon and A. Storey, from Aspects of Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools: perspectives on practice (Generic Reader 2.
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