Primary education: listening and observing: Online Course from OpenLearn

Would you like to volunteer or find work in your local primary school? Are you thinking about becoming a teaching assistant, or becoming a teacher in the future? In this free course, Primary ...

Syllabus

- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Acknowledgements
- Session1Session 1: Observing and listening to primary school children
- Introduction
- 1 Why observe in the primary school?
- 2 Meet a primary school headteacher
- 3 Listen to an early childhood educator and observe children
- 4 Observation and listening case studies
- 4.1 Observing and listening: case study 1
- 4.2 Observing and listening: case study 2
- 5 Child protection and safeguarding
- 5.1 Definitions of safeguarding
- 5.2 Safeguarding and school life
- 5.3 Vetting volunteers and staff in primary schools
- 6 Ethical practices in education settings
- 7 Interviews and conversations
- 7.1 Interview schedules
- 7.2 Case study: a teacher interviews parents and children
- 8 This session’s quiz
- 9 Summary of Session 1
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Session2Session 2: Observing in the playground
- Introduction
- 1 The importance of the playground
- 2 What do children think about the school playgrounds and playtime?
- 2.1 Reading: football pitches and Barbie dolls
- 2.1.1 Social play
- 2.1.2 Physical activity play
- 2.1.3 Risk
- 2.1.4 Gender
- 2.1.5 What do children’s comments and drawings tell us?
- 3 Playtime supervisors
- 4 Playground design principles
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 2
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Session3Session 3: Observing learning
- Introduction
- 1 Observing play, observing learning
- 1.1 A teacher on observing children
- 2 Dispositions for learning
- 2.1 Observing dispositions for learning
- 3 Systematic observation
- 4 Observing teaching and learning
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 3
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Session4Session 4: Learning at home
- Introduction
- 1 Primary school children and homework
- 1.1 What do children think about homework?
- 1.2 Homework: beneficial or boring?
- 2 Creative homework
- 3 Home–school communication
- 3.1 Homework case study
- 4 Homework around the world
- 4.1 Parents’ hopes
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 4
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Session5Session 5: Connected children
- Introduction
- 1 Technology in children’s lives
- 2 Technology affects how children learn
- 3 Schools in the digital age
- 4 Children and the internet
- 4.1 Risks and opportunities
- 4.2 E-safety in school
- 5 Play and learning online
- 6 Games in education
- 7 Digital literacy and twenty-first-century skills
- 7.1 The impact of technologies on children’s reading and writing
- 7.2 Children using multimedia in school
- 8 This session’s quiz
- 9 Summary of Session 5
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Session6Session 6: Computing in schools
- Introduction
- 1 What do we mean by computing?
- 1.1 Computing and the school curriculum
- 1.2 Computing programmes of study for children
- 2 Why is computing important?
- 2.1 Why learn about computing?
- 2.2 Children and coding
- 2.3 Children and computational thinking
- 3 Programming
- 3.1 ‘Unplugged’ computing in schools
- 3.2 Try out unplugged computing
- 4 Learning through exploring and making
- 4.1 Navigation and algorithms
- 4.2 Tinkering and making things
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 6
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Session7Session 7: Creative support for children’s learning
- Introduction
- 1 Cross-curricular projects
- 1.1 One theme, many subjects
- 1.2 Cross-curricular case study
- 2 Planning and assessing cross-curricular projects
- 3 Creative support for children’s learning
- 4 Creative support in action
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 7
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Session8Session 8: Adults and lifelong learning in the primary school
- Introduction
- 1 A headteacher talks about lifelong learning
- 2 Workplace learning
- 3 Learning Lives
- 3.1 A Learning Lives case study
- 4 Learning lives in the primary school
- 5 Children and adults learning together
- 6 Sketch your learning life story
- 7 This session’s quiz
- 8 Summary of Session 8
- Where next?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Acknowledgements

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