Chris Spencer's Staff Space

The focus of this module is to review and reflect on your practice and future areas for professional development as an education practitioner. You will develop your skills of grit and resilience, and make personal recommendations for maintaining your own well-being, professional skills and pedagogical experience. You will also consider the social, emotional and cognitive well-being of learners in your sector, and will develop strategies that enable you to support and maintain positive learning experiences in the learning environment.

The purpose of the module is to enable you to understand the theories, principles and applications of assessment, learning and communication and apply them to inclusive learning and teaching.

You will:

  • design and conduct informal and formal assessments to enable learning and progression
  • evaluate your application of theories and principles of assessment, learning and communication 
  • learn about assessment of, for and as learning

WELCOME! The PPB module aims to enable you to manage behaviours in a range of learning environments across the Further Education and Skills Sector. It includes understanding the characteristics and impact of behaviours in the learning environment, related legislation and organisational policies. A key focus is promoting behaviours that contribute to a purposeful learning environment, along with an exploration of how to manage disruptive behaviours when and where they occur. The module involves the structured evaluation of your own practice in managing behaviours, to be assessed in a teaching and learning environment within the Further Education and Skills sector.