PDA Teaching Practice in Scotland's Colleges
About the PDA: Teaching Practice in Scotland's Colleges
This is a course with live, weekly classes on Tuesdays, 3pm-5pm. Classes will take place online and on campus, alternating between City and Riverside campuses. Online classes will take place via Microsoft Teams.
The Professional Development Award (PDA) Teaching Practice in Scotland's Colleges is ideal if you are currently employed in a teaching role in professional, technical, vocational or further education, or equivalent.
The PDA provides an excellent grounding for the Teaching Qualification Further Education (TQFE). Completion of the PDA allows you to apply for the TQFE at the University of Strathclyde.
Course Mode
The course is taught:
Hybrid course, with weekly, live, online or face-to-face classes, Tuesdays 3pm-5pm
Each course runs from September to May. You will spend approx. one day per week doing coursework in your own time. The minimum time to complete the course is 165 hours.
Description
This SCQF Level 9 course leads to a group award made up of 2 SQA units Learning, Teaching & Assessment and Plan & Prepare the Learner Experience. It is organised in modules with a variety of assessed tasks in:
Class group profiling
Planning programmes
Planning learning sessions
Critical reflection on practice
Learning environment and resources
Assessing learning
Participants
This course is for those with under two years' teaching experience in teaching adult learners.
It is aimed at those teaching or training in vocational contexts, the workplace, Colleges and in universities.