17-18 Ver 1

PGCE/Cert Ed

Subject Specialist Targets for Reflective Development Plan

(For use by student and mentor at Induction and at start of each module)

Mentee: ......

Mentor: ......

Key topics, concepts, or curriculum areas being covered this term: / Needs revision y/n
Abnormal Psychology:
Biological
Brain damage
Infection
Psychodynamic
Psyche (id, ego, superego)
Stages of psychosexual development (oral, anal, phallic etc Freud)
Behavioural
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Cognitive
Beck’s cognitive triad / N
Y
N
Y
N
N
Y
Targets for developing subject knowledge e.g. texts that need to be read, videos to view, visits that need to be carried out, etc.:
The students will be using Cardwell, Clark and Meldrum (2008) – so where possible refer to this text. But you should extend your knowledge by looking at ‘Abnormal Psychology’ (2012) by James N. Butcher, Susan Mineka and Jill M. Hooley – especially the sections that look at criteria for each of the disorders from the DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders)
Watch the ‘Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds’ video on TED. The content of this video ties in with session 3 for this term
Targets for developing subject teaching, e.g. ways of teaching specific aspects of subject specialism; ways of embedding maths, English and ICT, employability and/or further studies:
Develop your use of graphical representations of theoretical concepts so that you can show the structuring and ordering of concepts more clearly. This will be particularly useful in your PowerPoints, as, at present, they are too ‘wordy’ and can communicate ideas more clearly through images/tables/charts. Start off by looking at the ways the course text books use graphics then extend your approach by looking at the ideas in http://www.visualinformation.info/ and http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
To encourage your students to consider future employment routes – you could mention that Oliver Sacks is a neuropsychologist and ask them to research how they could develop their current interest in psychology into a role such as this (refer them to the posters on the noticeboard outside the classroom).