Feedback

Throughout the programme, your tutor will support you with this assessed element with personal, private feedback on the reflective blog and with targeted tasks during the unit tutorials.

Written feedback from your tutor on your professional recognition tasks will comment on:

• the extent to which you have addressed the programme’s three Masters level criteria (see above)

• the extent to which you have responded to previous tutor feedback

• the particular strengths and development needs of your written reflection.

Your tutor will review the progress you are making in terms of your Professional Recognition activities. After Unit 3 he/she will get in touch with you specifically to discuss this with you in order to ensure that you will be able to complete the Professional Recognition successfully.

Marking

You will have deadlines for the submission of the reflective tasks relating to the Professional Recognition in each unit. Please adhere to these deadlines so that tutors can submit their feedback to you in a timely manner:

• Unit 1 Application task task due by end of study week 3

• Unit 2 Application and Reflection task due by end of study week 6

• Unit 3 Application and Reflection task due by end of study week 10

• Unit 4 Application and Reflection task due by end of study week 15

• Unit 5 Application and Reflection task due by end of study week 20

• Unit 6 Application and Reflection task due by end of study week 25

• Unit 7 Application and Reflection task due by end of study week 30

For the deadlines dates see the course timetable.

Tutors have ten working days from the date of your submission to provide their feedback.

Note: should you find that you might need an extension for the submission of the reflective tasks, contact your tutor in advance of the set submission date to arrange this. 

A moderation process is in place. A small sample of tutor comments and blogposts undergo a moderation by the Tutor Team at two scheduled points during the course. If you have any queries about feedback you receive, please contact your tutor or Dr Sylvia Warnecke (sylvia.warnecke@open.ac.uk ), the course lead.

Awards process

The final Professional Recognition 750-1000 word reflective blog post will be reviewed, moderated and marked by the tutor team. You will receive notification of either: criteria met or criteria not met. 

You must meet the criteria of professional recognition tasks for at least five of Units 2 to 7, of which one must be the unit 7 task.

In the event of Critieria met, the details of successful students will be passed to the GTCS and certificates will be issued by post.

The award is valid for five years and will be included on successful students’ GTCS personal registration information.