Category: HoPs Highlights
Hello again. My third blog comes at a time when the university has been restructured. So I cannot call this “HoP’s Highlights” as the University no longer has HoPs (Heads of Programme) and therefore I am no longer Head of programme for Primary Education. Am I therefore out of a job I hear you cry. No. I am now Director of Undergraduate Initial Teacher Education – a bit of a mouthful, I know. I do want to come and talk to each year group about what this means when we are all settled in, but for today, this means I need a new blog title, as “HoP’s Highlights” no longer works.
Hello again. My first blog under “HoP’s Highlights” focused on second year assessment in our Wider Curriculum module. The focus of this blog is also assessment, this time our third year students and their final assessment over their very last three days at York St John. When we first planned and designed our current degree programme we incorporated a final year subject specialism – a choice from English, mathematics, PE, science and languages – which was to involve as its final assessment, a continued professional development (CPD) event run by the students for the students. “It will never work,” some cried.
Hello. My Name is Peter Raymond and welcome to “HoPs Highlights” – my part of the Primary Education blog at York St John University. What is a HoP? A Head of Programme, as that is my role; Head of the BA (Hons) primary Education programme at YSJU. There is a saying that there is a first time for everything. In this case, for me, this is the first time I have ever blogged and I am hoping that this will become a regular part of the Primary Education blog, bringing you some of the highlights at various points through our year.
