Enabling Work Based Learning and Assessment (Enabling Others)

This course is running of the following dates for the academic year 2011/2012

• Friday 4th November 2011
• Thursday 24th November 2011 (These 2 dates cover the workshops: Introduction to social work practice placements)
• Friday 21th January 2012 (Supervision and assessment) 
• Friday 24th February2012 (Anti-oppressive practice and reflection)
• Friday 30th March 2012 (Direct observations and managing poor performance) 

You can attend individual workshops or the whole course and the workshops will run from 10.00am to 4.00pm.

Postgraduate Certificate  and Post-Graduate Diploma in in Practice Education

In the first year you have to undertake the following core module:
Practice teaching and assessing

• 19th January 2012
• 26th January 2012
• 2nd February 2012
• 9th Febrauary 2012
• 27th April 2012

and a choice of two other modules in any order.

Research and evaluation: 5th and 6th December 2011 and 9th and 10th January 2012

Work-based project: 5th and 6th March 2012 and 26th and 27th March 2012

Learning styles and professional development: 8th and 9th May 2012 and 28th and 29th May 2012

Supervising, mentoring and assessing: this is not being offered in 2011-12 to enable students to meet the requirements to undertake this module.

The remaining three modules are taken in the 2012-13. Modules can be taken as standalone modules without having to complete the post-graduate certificate.

All modules making up the Post-graduate Diploma in Practice Education wwill be timetabled to run once in each academic year. The sequence offered may not be the same in each academic year. Havering College of Further and Higher Education reserve the right not to run a module if the numbers enrolled are considered to be too low to make this viable. Those students intending to undertake that module may enrol onto an alternative module or wait until that module is next delivered to undertake it. Teaching time is 10.00am - 5.00pm, but you may be required from 9.00am for tutorial support.

You will be allocated a personal tutor at the beginning of the programme and will have two tutorials per semester with your personal tutor. In addition, you will be allocated a mentor for some of the modules on the course and you will arrange mutually convenient times to meet with your mentor on a minimum of three occasions.