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5.1 Teaching and Learning

Policy

Scoil Mhuire Adult Education, and our second provider schools, endeavour to ensure that tutors and learners achieve the best possible outcomes by creating and sustaining a positive, supportive, collaborative, and inclusive teaching and learning environment.  All stakeholders, from members of our governance units to our learners, have a role in contributing to creating and sustaining this environment.

We seek regular feedback from tutors, both Scoil Mhuire and second provider tutors, their learners, and stakeholders and we have the resources in place to provide our tutors and learners with the environment they need to achieve their maximum potential. We have a clearly documented, overarching Teaching, Learning and Assessment (TLA) strategy, to which programme-specific strategies are aligned leading to a more effective and informed pedagogic practices and programme design. This strategy is appropriate to the context of the schools and takes our learner profile and learner needs into consideration.

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Responsibility

• The Board of Management of Scoil Mhuire appoints the Quality Committee to have oversight of academic standards /quality of programmes and the protection of learner interests in relation to QQI programmes offered in Scoil Mhuire and our second providers.
• The Board of Management is also responsible for ensuring that the appropriate facilities and resources are in place to ensure a high-quality teaching and learning environment.
• The Director of Adult Education is responsible for ensuring that our teaching, learning and assessment strategies are implemented and for supporting their implementation.
• The tutors, including second provider tutors, are responsible for programme implementation, delivery, assessment and support of the learners in order to maximise their potential.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

We document our teaching, learning and assessment strategies to include the activities, strategies, methodologies, and resources in our Programme Descriptors, and these are agreed at the programme validation stage by QQI (if the programme is designed to lead to an award on the NFQ)

Learning Methodologies

We design a range of methodologies as part of our delivery strategy. We expect Tutors to use and promote a range of teaching and learning methodologies in response to the needs of our adult learners, including:

• Classroom-based instruction – impart information and create a learning environment for class discussions, explore issues that have arisen as part of programme content or assessments.
• Group work is used to help learners develop their analytical and communication skills and to create a collaborative learning environment which our learners enjoy and benefit from as part of their experience.
• Practical demonstrations and training – demonstrations of practical skills via face-to-face delivery in line with best practice. Learners are supervised when carrying out practical skills with feedback provided by the tutor.
• Simulated work environment.
• Work placements give learners an opportunity to apply what they have learned in a real working environment and to identify, practise and develop essential work-related skills.
• Online teaching on occasion to support face-to-face learning.
• Independent and self-directed learning.

5.2 Provider ethos that promotes learning