Course Overview

The programme draws significantly on a professional learning model that encourages students to connect explicitly between relevant research, theory and their emerging professional practice.

Students will draw on their professional capabilities and extend their practice through their engagement with the assessments, designed to promote high levels of critical reflection on their Early Career practice and expand their understanding of the link between research evidence and practice. The two modules are designed to develop the Early Career Teacher as a reflective practitioner able to analyse their emerging practice and consider how a critical engagement with evidence and research informs it.

Module 1 will focus on supporting the student on their professional learning journey considering relevant theory and evidence which applies to their context as an Early Career Teacher. Module 2 will involve continued professional engagement through the critique and deconstruction of students' practice linked to research and evidence. These will both support their ability to critically consider educational research and evidence and help any future small-scale research related to an aspect of practice.

General Eligibility

First Class or Upper Second Class Honours Degree in a relevant discipline (applications from students who do not hold a 1st or 2:1 Honours Degree (or equivalent) but have appropriate professional experience will be considered).

Part Time Work Details

Twenty hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• There is a language requirement of IELTS 6.5 overall with a 6.0 minimum of all components.