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This module comprises the following five themes:
THEME 1: RELATIONSHIPS
This theme focuses on exploring the reciprocal relationships between students themselves and their teachers, in addition to focusing on building trust and enhancing interpersonal communication skills with others including with some attention to behavior management, bullying and gender issues in education.
THEME 2: LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
This theme focuses on the interrelationships of the digital space they might be working in, learning resources including digital and other technologies, social relationships, and the pedagogical practices they foster as well as the agency of the teacher in their design.
THEME 3: CONDITIONS FOR LEARNING
This theme explores relevant research literature behind child development and meta-learning. It considers exploring the concepts of differentiation and inclusion and understanding the implications and effect of gender on learning.
THEME 4: PLANNING
This theme focuses on deepening student teachers’ understanding about effective planning It focuses on exploring the challenges of planning learning, including understanding of the concepts of learning objects, learning outcomes and aims for learning, related activities, and evaluation procedures.
THEME 5: ASSESSING STUDENT PROGRESS
This theme focuses on the use of summative assessment, digital assessment and analyzing data to improve the learning process. It clarifies assessment and evaluation procedures, the use of assessment processes to inform next steps and evaluate the processes of learning. It explores the different types of assessment including assessment for learning and enable student teachers to reflect on the challenges of using AfL and developing peer and self-assessment strategies.
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