Tag: CLAWS
The process that the School undertook recently to create a flexible generic framework for its PGT provision seems to have been both successful in its own right and also providing a model of how an expanding PGT provision can be achieved without the need for major validation exercises and whilst retaining the proper degree of [...]
PCUTL Projects:
Experiential and situated learning theory and its appliction to the teaching of the knowledge subjects in the Barristers' Training Course
Michael Edwards (CPLS, CLAWS) The purpose of this project was to examine experiential learning theory and situated learning theory and explore their application in the teaching of the knowledge subjects to barristers. A large part of the training programme for barristers involves the teaching and learning of skills. This is done on the basis of [...]
Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation:
Reconfiguration of PGT provision in CLAWS to allow varied routes
During 0708 the School has re-configured its PGT provision for 09/10 onwards from the current four separate programmes to one generic programme with separate named routes (corresponding to the existing programmes) and a new non-specialised route. This has introduced greater flexibility into the PGT provision and has facilitated the process of introducing additional named routes. [...]
All coursework is submitted online and is run through ‘Turnitin’. This year we are giving students the opportunity to test Turnitin themselves: they have been invited to submit one of their two Semester One formative assessments online as a dummy module, to which we can apply Turnitin. We do not yet know the results, but [...]
In 2009 the School undertook a University-wide survey in consultation with the University’s Teaching Circles group and Registry of how Schools undertake their student module evaluation surveys. Whilst there were no universal conclusions able to be drawn from the responses regarding best practice (all Schools seem to adopt processes that suit their own individual purposes, [...]