Welcome to your Higher and Professional Education course

The modules will be delivered through a combination of lectures, collaborative learning activities, student led presentations, workshops, work-based tasks and self-assessments, online delivery, independent study and mentor supported learning.

Both modules will require you to attend a series of tutor led classes which are normally scheduled to be delivered on a regular basis. The classes will include a variety of teaching and learning methods, including presentations by experienced practitioners, large and small group discussions, case studies and task-centred investigations. Classes have been specifically designed so as to synthesise the theoretical underpinning and/or current educational research with your own practice in order to encourage engagement in reflective practice. Such reflective practice will help to develop your learning about teaching in order to improve the quality of the student experience. Additionally, you will lead and participate in group activities which will develop your teamworking skills, enable sharing good practice and provide you with an opportunity to professionally network.

In this way the classes will be designed to build on your current practice in order to maximise personal development and shared learning among diverse subject areas and/or professional domains.

The PgCHPE consists of 2 modules assessed at level 7.

The first module is around Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education and provides an overview of key knowledge, skills, values and behaviours required by the lecturer new to higher and professional education. As such, it covers key principles of teaching, assessment, enhancing behaviour and promoting inclusion. This includes consideration of the context of the HE/professional training sector and how learner and employer needs can be identified and met. For this module you will be assessed through a piece of reflective writing and a portfolio of teaching practice

Although you may have already studied at Postgraduate level previously, you may want to consider taking an opportunity to prepare for the programme before it starts: https://www.skillsforstudy.com/ 

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• Mental Wellbeing - https://www.staffs.ac.uk/study/disabled/mental_wellbeing/
• Student Support - https://www.staffs.ac.uk/students
• Financial Support - https://www.staffs.ac.uk/students/money-matters/student-support-fund
• Study Support from the Library - https://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/c.php?g=654666&p=4599175 and http://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/libraryresources
• Student Inclusion Team- Student Inclusion Team - Current students - Staffordshire University (staffs.ac.uk)

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