DTLLS Handbook

C&G 6502

Level 5

Diploma in Education

and Training

2014/16

South Essex College

Course Team: Shirley Green

Gwendolyn Renwick

Rathi Raman

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Contents

Introduction Page 3 Course Team Page 3 Location and Times of the Programme Page 4 Requirements for Completion Page 4-5 The Diploma Award Page 6 Assignment Deadlines Page 7-8 Assessment Requirements Pages 9-10 Appeals Page 11 Attendance Page 11 Tutorials Page 11 Programme Evaluation Page 11 Induction Checklist Page 12 Learner Voice Page 13 Equal Opportunities Page 13 Plagiarism Page 14-16 Useful Websites Page 17 Useful references and journals Page 18

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Introduction Welcome to the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training course. You need to read this handbook in conjunction with the City and Guilds 6502 Handbook. Please read this handbook and then keep it in a safe place so that you can refer back to it when you need to. The qualification provides a development for students who have completed the PTLLS/Level 3 Award in Education and Training course and wish to develop their skills in managing the teaching and learning process on a course which will lead to being a Qualified Teacher in the further education and skills Sector. The Diploma award consists of four mandatory units and three optional units to the total value of 120 credits. The units are offered at Level four and five. The actual Diploma in Education and Training is awarded at level five. Over the two years of the course you will be required to demonstrate your competency in teaching. The different evidence methods will be explained by your tutor in class and in your tutorials will be recorded on your individual learning plan (ILP).

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The Course Team The course team consists of: Shirley Green Course Team Leader and Assessor

Rathi Raman Curriculum Leader/Course Tutor (01702 220414)

Gwendolyn Renwick Professional Development Manager/Course Tutor

John Hamilton Observation tutor

Wagdy Matta PGCE Tutor/Observer

Danielle Brookes Professional Development Team Administrator

(01702 220537)

Shirley can be contacted on 01268 461661 or 01702 220533 at South Essex College or by email [email protected] Rathi can be contacted on 01702 220414 at South Essex College or by email [email protected] John can be contacted by email [email protected]

Wagdy can be contacted on 01702 220533 at South Essex College or by email [email protected] Gwen can be contacted on 01702 220 682 at South Essex College or by email [email protected]

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Location and Times of the Programme The course takes place on: Tuesday 5.30 9.30pm at the South Essex College, Thurrock Campus, Grays High Street Room: Area 1.14 Wednesday 5.30 9.30pm at the South Essex College, the Forum Room: Area 1

Requirements for Completion

1. The core principle of the Diploma provision is that students be enabled to

achieve successful completion at Level 4 in the first semester and Level 5

through the duration of the course. Process and product are equally

valued, so 100% attendance is expected.

2. Continual monitoring and support is provided throughout the course; there

will be opportunities for discussion and online contact with tutors. Reviews

of progress include contributions to sessions, quality of ongoing and

submitted work, levels of attendance and plans for future progression.

Relevant issues are discussed with the group as a whole and with the

Internal and External Verifiers as appropriate.

3. For formative feedback of assignments students may submit one

typewritten draft up to two weeks before the course deadline. Every

reasonable effort will be made by the tutor to communicate with the

student but it is always the students responsibility to maintain contact with

the tutor and let the tutor know of any support needs.

4. Completed assignments should be handed in during the session on

the deadline date.

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5. Completed assignments should be handed in to the Course Team

members ensuring that the Assignment Receipt Form is completed as

indicated. This will confirm the date and time of submission.

6. A late submission must be agreed in advance with Course Tutors at least

5 days of the deadline if possible.

7. These procedures will be provided and discussed with learners at the start

of each course.

For further guidance on this matter, please see the College Assessment Policy and College

Assessment Guidelines

http://ilsapps/college-information/policies-and-procedures/absence-policy.pdf

http://ilsapps/college-information/policies-and-procedures/assessment-policy-fe.pdf

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Structure for Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training

Unit Topic Level Credit

DTLLS 1st Year

426

417

501

502

Teaching, learning and assessment in education and training

Inclusive Practice

Developing teaching, learning and assessment in education and training

Theories, principles and models in education

L4

L4

L5

L5

20

15

20

20

75

DTLLS 2nd Year

503 506 505

Wider professional practice and development in education and training

Developing, using and organising resources in specialist area

Action research

L5

L5

L5

15

15

15

45

Total 120

Minimum Core is embedded within the course.

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Assessment Deadlines

Issue date Hand in date Unit

W/C 15th September 2014

Task A 13/10/14

Task B 3/11/14

Task C 12/1/15

Task D 15/12/14

Task E 12/1/15

426 Teaching, learning and assessment in education and training

W/C 1st December 2014

W/C 26th January 2015

417 Inclusive Practice

1 Draft can be submitted up until 2 weeks before due date (2/1/15)

W/C 26th January 2015

W/C 26th May 2015

502 Theories, principles and models in education and training

506 Developing, using and organising resources within a specialist area

1 Draft can be submitted up until 2 weeks before due date (13.05.15)

1st Year 1st semester (week commencing)

26th January 2015 Hand in assignments 26th January 2015 2nd semester starts

16th February 2015 Half term

23rd February 2015 Hand-back assignments with feedback

16th March 2015 re-submissions 30th March 2015 Hand-back re-submissions with feedback

1st Year 2nd semester

25th May 2015 Hand in assignments 1st & 8th June 2015 Tutorials/preparation for 2nd year 18th June 2015 End of semester

17th June 2015 Hand-back assignments with feedback 29th June 2015 Re-submissions 6th July 2014 Re-submission returned with feedback

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Issue date Hand in date

Unit

September 2015

W/B TBA

501 Developing teaching, learning and assessment in education and training

503 Wider professional practice and development in education and training

1 Draft can be submitted up until 2 weeks before due date

January 2016 W/B TBA 505 Action research

1 Draft can be submitted up until 2 weeks before due date

Dates to be arranged (TBA)

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ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS The required standards are maintained through rigorous quality assurance procedures which follows each assessment. Each mandatory unit within the qualification will be assessed by a City & Guilds registered assessor. Quality assurance is provided by the centre and monitored by City & Guilds external verification systems, to ensure that the required standards are maintained. Each assessment will be graded pass or refer. The assessments provided are mandatory and alternatives are not acceptable. All work presented by candidates should be word-processed.

1. Written assignments

Each unit must be submitted with a front-sheet for the appropriate level, that has been completed with your details, details of the assignment, and signed by you to verify that it is your own work (front-sheet is online on Moodle as a course resource).

o Layout:

Word Processed Header with your name and the unit number 1.5 line spaced One sided Pages numbered Font size 12 Sans Serif Font (e.g. Arial, Verdana, MS Sans) Correctly referenced and correctly laid out Bibliography Consistency in format (particularly titles) Front sheet attached (see paragraph above)

Note: Do not place individual pages of assignment in plastic

wallets, either hole punch or one whole assignment per plastic wallet

2. Teaching Practice Portfolio

Only one Teaching Practice Portfolio is required across the full programme. The portfolio should be a concise log of teaching practice undertaken and should include the candidates log of 100 hours teaching and evidence relating to their learners, session planning, delivery and evaluation. It will include at least eight observations of their teaching by the course team.

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3. Teaching Practice Observations

A total of eight hours over a minimum of eight occasions (minimum 30 minutes each) must be observed over the 2 years of your course. These observations should be spaced out at intervals for developmental purposes. It is your responsibility to email [email protected] to book observations do this early in the term to ensure you get a suitable booking. If John is unable to see you we will attempt to arrange an observation with a member from the ITT Team. Your tutor will check with you that you have booked at least two observations by the 28th November 2014, if bookings have not been set by this date then a member of the ITT team will view your timetable and select sessions to be observed. On the day of your observation you must provide your observer with a completed rationale, lesson plan, a relevant scheme of work and copies of resources to be used. After your observation you must reflect on the experience and the feedback given by your observer to enable you to complete the Evaluation form. The observation requirements exclude the 7303 or 6302 PTLLS observation, and mentor observations but you can use these for reflection in your Reflective Learning Journal (RLJ).

4. Reflective Learning Journal

Candidates are required to write a Reflective Learning Journal from the commencement of the programme, which encompasses their own learning and teaching practice. The journal entries must provide the basis for meeting the required assessment outcomes, so you are advised to complete one for every assignment submitted, as well as any other reflective entries. Candidates are permitted to use their own journal format during the course or use Appendix 5 (online on Moodle as Course Resource).

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Appeals For information on the Appeals, please refer to link below: http://ilsapps/college-information/policies-and-procedures/assessment-policy-fe.pdf

Attendance Registers are kept for every session and students are expected to attend all lessons. Please inform your tutor as soon as possible about any session that you are unable to attend. If you miss a session, you should make every effort to catch up with the work.

Tutorials The course tutor will arrange to meet you for individual tutorials on a regular basis. There will also be periodic review weeks which give the opportunity to review progress and work on assignments and developmental needs.

Programme Evaluation The programme is constantly subject to regular review, both formal and informal:

Through termly focus group meetings of tutors

Student representation on the Student Council.

Participation in cross college surveys

Periodic surveys of learners opinions on the programme (analysed in team meetings)

Periodic review of written student feedback

End of term evaluation and periodic course reviews.

Feedback from awarding body via the External Verifier

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Induction Checklist

This checklist has been devised to ensure you are familiar with all the services and facilities available to you as a new trainee at the College.

Induction questions yes no

1. Have you enrolled on your programme? do you have your student ID card?

go to the enrolment desk or reception.

2. Have you received information on Health and Safety/ Fire Safety from your tutors?

If no speak to your tutor

3. Have you got a copy of the Student Handbook and your Programme Handbook?

If no speak to your tutor

4. Have you been made aware of the Academic referencing procedures and signed the plagiarism declaration form?

If no speak to your tutor or visit HE C Space

5. Have you logged on to the computer and do you know how to use the printing facilities?

You will need your ID username and password to do this. If you are unable to log on please contact the [email protected] giving full details of the problem or ring 01702 220605 or x4605 if internal call.

Please ask your tutor to explain the printing facilities.

6. Have you activated your college email account?

This will be used for all key correspondence including receipting of work, results, etc so it is essential that you check it regularly.

speak to your course tutor for further information

7. Have you provided your mentor details using the given form?

8. Have you e-mailed John Hamilton to arrange your first observation? (cc to tutors)

9. Have you applied for your ITT funding? Refer to handout

10. Are you aware of the services offered by Learner Services?

11. Have you visited the Library?

Your student ID card is also your library card. You will need to have it with you to access the building and borrow books

12. Have you been told about the learner voice and how to elect representatives?

13. Can you name your awarding body?

14. Have you found Moodle (VLE) and located key policies and procedures relating to the course?

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THE LEARNER VOICE Input from learners is valued at SEC and is part of the Quality Improvement processes. The College is committed to listening and responding to learners in a range of ways, including

Student representation: the programme will elect 2 representatives who will represent the group in meetings with the ITT Team. These will be held at least once a semester to facilitate feedback from the group and give your tutors an opportunity to respond accordingly to meet the needs of the group.

Course evaluations at the end of each semester will give you the opportunity to provide feedback on course units.

Student surveys: You will also be asked to complete college and national student surveys in the course of the year; these give valuable feedback to the team, the College and wider stakeholders regarding your learning experience.

SUMMARY STATEMENT TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY

The College aims to create and maintain the conditions whereby learners and staff are treated solely on the basis of their merits, abilities and potential, regardless of ethnic or national origin, disability, gender, age or other distinction.

It is the responsibility of all staff and students to help make these policies work. The Diploma team works within all of the College Codes of Practice and policies and strives to ensure that all students have the same chance to do well on the course. For further information on this subject, please refer to the Equality and Diversity section on the College website or the College Handbook.

http://ilsapps/college-information/policies-and-procedures/Equality-and-Diversity-Policy-Sep-2007.pdf http://ilsapps/college-information/policies-and-procedures/code-of-practice-promoting-equality.pdf

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PLAGIARISM AND REFERENCING The College has a very clear policy on plagiarism and referencing. Students are required to reference their sources properly, and failure to do so can result in an academic offence. When submitting any piece of work you will be required to acknowledge any assistance received or any use of the work of others. This applies to all academic material used in written and visual media. You will be introduced to referencing and plagiarism during your induction and your lecturers will explain how to reference and provide guidance on following the recommended Harvard system. You will also be told about Turnitin and how this is used by the College to check for plagiarism in submitted work. You will be asked to sign a declaration to confirm that you have read and understood the policy on plagiarism and referencing.

Plagiarism Plagiarism is a very serious academic offence. However, more often than not it results from misunderstanding rather than a deliberate intention to cheat. Many students simply do not understand what plagiarism is. Although confusion is understandable especially at the beginning of your study, ignorance will not be accepted as an excuse or as a defence against an accusation of plagiarism. You must therefore make sure that you understand what plagiarism is, what the penalties for plagiarising are and how you can avoid it.

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism means reproducing the words or presenting the ideas of other writers, without citing them by name and referencing your sources (in effect, presenting such work as if it is your own). Plagiarism is intellectual theft and is regarded very seriously. You will be plagiarising if you:

copy someone else's work and pretend that it is your own copy sections of someone else's work and just change the odd word or

phrase submit the same piece of work for two different assignments, even if they

are for different modules There are 2 main forms of plagiarism: 1. COPYING

This is the most obvious form, although there are different ways and degrees (and hence scope for misunderstanding). The following all

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constitute plagiarism:

Using somebody elses exact words (whether in large chunks or just individual sentences or phrases) without acknowledgement.

Using somebody elses words with only minor amendments (e.g. simply substituting individual words for your own) without acknowledgement.

Using somebody elses arguments or ideas (even in your own words), without acknowledgement.

Any report or assignment submitted must be entirely your own unaided writing and should not contain any elements of writing cut and pasted from other documents, whether written by your colleagues or sourced from third parties or the web, except with explicit acknowledgement of the source. Material that you research can be presented with explicit acknowledgement of the source in the following ways:

Quoting: Any directly copied text should be placed in quotation marks (..). You should understand that you will gain no credit for this quoted text, as it does not represent your own thinking, hence such quotes should be used very sparingly. Under copyright laws the maximum quote allowed is 300 words. When quoting, you must refer to the source of your quotation, and include a page reference.

Paraphrasing: you can use your own words to present any idea that you have researched and want to discuss, but must refer to the source of the idea.

Summarising: expressing in brief an idea you have read up on, but with reference to the source of the idea.

2. SUBMITTING THE SAME WORK TWICE

Even when it is your own work, you will be plagiarising if you hand in the same piece of work for more than one assignment (or a piece of work that reproduces significant chunks of a previous assignment).

Remember: this applies to all your source material, whether you are using books, journal articles, newspaper articles, other people's essays, visual media or web sites. It also applies to your tutor's handouts. Check out HE C_Space for more information on avoiding plagiarism. There are some excellent resources to help you.

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At the beginning of your course, you will be required to sign a declaration to confirm that all coursework and answers to examination questions produced will be your own work and that where you report the work of other people, you will fully reference this work, regardless of its source.

Its your responsibility

Most occurrences of plagiarism occur unintentionally, either because students are unclear about what it really means, or as a consequence of poor study skills. However, the responsibility for understanding what constitutes plagiarism and for avoiding it rests with YOU. The College has access to an electronic plagiarism service provided by JISC Turnitin which can be used to help you identify any instances of plagiarism in your own work so that you will be able to rectify it. You will be given a handout on how to use Turnitin.

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Useful Websites www.southessex.ac.uk www.SmartScreen.co.uk/learners You will be given the centre number and password by your tutor for this website. www.cityandguilds.com/qtls www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts1998/19980029.htm Data protection act. http://www.doh.gov.uk/busguide/childhtm/cpt6.htm Children Act 1989. www.ofsted.gov.uk Ofsted. www.lluk.org.uk www.dfes.gov.uk/bullying www.bullying.co.uk www.teachernet.gov.uk/visits http://inclusion.ngfl.gov.uk www.dfes.gov.uk/sen www.nasen.org.uk National Association for Special Educational Needs. www.nas.org.uk

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Useful References All available in the college Library on the first floor Curzon, L.B. (2009),Teaching in Further Education. London. Continuum International Publishing Group. Scales, P. (2008), Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector. Maidenhead. Open University Press. Daines, J., Daines C. & Graham, B. (2009), Adult Learning, Adult Teaching. Nottingham. Welsh Academic Press. Gravells, A. (2009), Delivering Adult Learning. Exeter. Learning Matters. Petty, G. (2009), Teaching Today. Cheltenham. Nelson Thornes. Wilson, L. (2009), Practical Teaching, A Guide to PTLLS & DTLLS. Hampshire. Delmar Cengage Learning

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