PEDAGOGIES - 2025/6

Module Overview

This module introduces students to key principles, skills and techniques required to facilitate training for performance across a variety of teaching and learning contexts, including, but not limited to, schools, community groups, education outreach activities, professional training and online learning across diverse communities. Learning and teaching processes will be examined through the lenses of acting, voice and movement and the application applied through analysis of performance Through the development of their teaching practice, students will be encouraged to empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

Module provider

Guildford School of Acting

Module Leader

TURNER Thomas (GSA)

Number of Credits: 60

ECTS Credits: 30

Framework: FHEQ Level 7

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Semester 1

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

N/A

Module content

Indicative content includes: online, practical, theoretical and observational study arising from the module material and essential texts as given in the module reading list. Delivery may include, but is not restricted to:
Online materials via the virtual learning environment
Group tutorials and seminars
Independent observations of teaching practice

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

N/A

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their development of personal pedagogic practice.

  Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:

• A 4,000 word portfolio of practice or critical study of the work of one or more practitioners.


• A 2,000 word design of a curriculum, in response to a specified brief. 

Formative assessment is embedded within the learning and teaching for this module, and may include: in-class verbal feedback, presentation of draft work, questioning and dialogue, peer-to-peer feedback and group discussion, tutorials, engagement with the online learning environment. These will support students to work reflectively and resourcefully, evaluating their own work and process and responding proactively to feedback, and offers a range of approaches to facilitate different learning styles and needs.

Feedback

Summative formal written feedback will follow submission of the summative assessment

Module aims

• Introduce students to the principles, skills and techniques required to facilitate training for performance in a range of settings and across diverse communities
• To enable students to effectively analyse and evaluate the learning and teaching approaches of themselves and of other professional practitioners
• To engage students with the critical analysis of performance skills in practice

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy is designed to:

• Enable the learner to access core concepts studied and apply these to selected practical contexts, including online modes of delivery


• Actively engage learners with the pedagogy and facilitation of training for performance across multiple contexts through critical analysis and evaluation


• Foster a holistic and inclusive approach to curriculum design, connecting the social, environmental, and digital dimensions of learning and teaching.


• Encourage self-reflection, promoting inquisitive, self-aware, and resilient cohorts with an understanding of the implication of creative choices and concepts in a variety of training and theatrical contexts.


• Foster supportive learning networks and guided discussions, enabling learners to develop and build upon their own resourcefulness, confidence and self-efficacy

The learning and teaching methods include:

• Online seminars and practical classes


• Teaching observations


• Study based on module content and associated activities via the virtual learning environment


• Independent study based on module reading lists and further independent enquiry

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: TDLM017

Other information

GSA delivers its provision across three teaching blocks, within the University of Surrey’s existing semester structure.

The key focus of this module is that of equipping learners with an extensive theoretical and practical understanding of key teaching and learning techniques. Through teaching observations, individual research, self and peer-reflection, students are equipped with a sophisticated tool-kit of transferable skills, in preparation for employment in a variety of training and teaching contexts. Learners will be encouraged to include innovative approaches when planning lessons, incorporating forward thinking digital systems. Through the development of their teaching practice, students will be encouraged to empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

Employability

The key focus of this module is to equip learners with an extensive theoretical and practical understanding of key teaching and learning techniques. This understanding, in addition to engagement with teaching observations, individual research, critical self-reflection and guided discussions with peers and tutors through seminars will provide learners with a sophisticated toolkit of transferable skills, in preparation for employment in a variety of training and teaching contexts.

Digital Capabilities

The online delivery of this module is such that students learn to navigate and use the virtual learning environment (SurreyLearn) and other digital resources (such as Drama Online, Digital Theatre+ and Box of Broadcasts) to aid their learning and undertake research. Appropriate use of current digital media and communication platforms is encouraged to engage in critical peer discussions and foster supportive learning networks.

Sustainability

The delivery of this module incorporates the ethos set out by the UN’s 17 sustainability goals. Through research and the development of their own teaching practices, learners are encouraged to promote positive working ethics: collaboration, kindness, support, understanding, listening and integrity. Through the design lesson plans, learners will integrate and be mindful of good health and well-being, for example, keeping to appropriate working hours and maintaining safe and collaborative working conditions

Programmes this module appears in

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2025/6 academic year.