The Learning Experience

Working through a course

• Your nominated course administrator will give you the school's username and password, allowing you to log on to the particular course(s) you choose.
  
  
• Once you're registered as a student with Fieldwork Online Training, you will be given your own unique password protected access to the courses of your choice. You can then log on and log off the course whenever is convenient for you - at home, at school, or elsewhere.
  
  
• You get clear and specific instructions in the Introduction to each course. We explain:
  
  
  • how the course works
    
  • the intended learning outcomes
    
  • whether you need to have access to particular resources as you work through it
    
  • what extra reading might be useful
    
  • how to make the best of the course
  
  
• Each course is divided into four learning modules (occasionally a course will have three or five modules). Each module is designed so that there will be about two hours work to complete at the computer, usually online, and around another two hours work on tasks such as action research in school, reading, discussion with colleagues, or follow up work with a class, with a group, or with an individual pupil.
  
  
• You record your own learning through each course in your online Student book. This is a unique feature of our courses which allows you to make notes online and record your responses to activities. You can print off the completed Student book and keep it for future reference. You may want to include any useful pages in your professional development portfolio.
  
  
• As you work through a course, you can join with a wider learning community via the online Discussion boards. Here you can exchange ideas and opinions with students doing the same course as you.
  
  
• When you finish all the modules in the course, you receive a Certificate of Participation, for you to keep in your record of professional development activities.