This masters degree will:
- examine various models of learning
- deepen your understanding how effective learning happens, what affects it and how it can be facilitated
- enable you to apply your knowledge in classrooms and schools.
This masters degree provides the opportunity to:
- learn about critical perspectives on teaching and learning in classrooms
- experience active and collaborative approaches to teaching and learning in learning communities
- access tools and opportunities for enquiry into your own and others' professional practice
- take part in challenging, invigorating and thought-provoking discussions.
Experienced teachers with an interest in enhancing learning and teaching.
Entry requirementsA good first degree, a teaching qualification and/or appropriate teaching experience.
Core topics- Guiding effective learning and teaching
- Education research
- Assessment for learning
- Teaching and learning in classrooms.
- Educational assessment
- Educational testing
- Curriculum design and development.
By coursework assignments (including individual and group assessment tasks) and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.
AttendanceFace-to-face evening sessions, with some online options.
Where do our students go?Graduates of this masters degree are currently working as:
- senior teachers in schools
- teachers in higher education
- PhD students.
Core modules
- Assessment for Learning
- Guiding Effective Learning And Teaching
- Investigating Research Into Schooling, Curriculum, Teaching And Learning
- Investigating Research Into Schooling, Curriculum, Teaching And Learning