Core module on EE pathway
You will engage in a broad range of learning and teaching techniques suitable for roles in post-compulsory education. The module will improve your skills in planning, teaching, assessing, giving feedback and supporting different forms of learning. As an introduction to the course, no prior teaching experience is assumed.
Core module on EE pathway
This module focuses on the concept and practice of leadership within contemporary education, adopting an individualised approach to help you to ‘learn to lead’ and ‘lead to learn’.
You are given the opportunity to develop and reflect on different styles and approaches relating to leadership and leading change across a range of professional contexts. You will investigate a personally significant leadership challenge, with the support of colleagues and peers on the module.
Assessment is negotiated dependent on the leadership challenge being investigated (written and/or multimedia).
Core module on both pathways
What do we mean by the term ‘creative education’? Is it– education in creative subjects, a more creative approach to education in creative subjects, or a more creative approach to all education? This module invites you to explore such questions in the context of your own professional and creative practice.
You will engage in experiential workshops in order to practise techniques that expand your practical skillsets as a creative educator. We encourage you to experiment with your own learning and creative practices, to try new things in your teaching, and to explore how assessment decisions are made and justified within creative subjects.
Assessed by a portfolio of learning (written and/or multimedia).
Core module on both pathways
This module grapples with a variety of theories and practices that are used to investigate education and creative subjects.
You will learn to use different methodologies of qualitative and practitioner research in order to better understand and answer larger questions about creative education. For the module’s assessment, you will generate a research proposal, which can be used for your final dissertation/project.
Optional module available on both pathways
In this optional module, you will engage with a range of critical positions on education and the curriculum, exploring what, how and why we teach.
You will explore the variety of aims and ideologies at play within education and critically engage with ideas from the social sciences, psychology and education in analysis and debate. You will also learn how to use these languages to engage in your own educational practices more deeply.
Assessed by a written essay or presentation.
Optional module available on both pathways
This optional module supports you in developing short courses across a range of academic and professional settings in creative subjects. You will look at a variety of methods and orientations to curriculum design, including examining digital and blended learning approaches applicable to courses on and offline, as well as managing individual and collaborative learning.
For the module’s assessment, you will create and evaluate your short course of study, allowing you to develop usable designs and materials for your own professional career area.
The submission is via portfolio (written and/or multimedia).
Optional module available on both pathways
This optional module facilitates your development as an effective coach and/or mentor in one-to-one settings. You will explore a variety of person-centred techniques and approaches for partnering with learners to support their development and empower them as individuals. This can provide an additional professional skillset for work as an educator, as well as inform your existing one-to-one and classroom teaching.
You will participate in our yown coaching/mentoring practice throughout the module and receive professional supervision.
Assessed by a reflective portfolio of practice (written and/or multimedia).
Core module on both pathways
This module gives you the opportunity produce an extended piece of educational research that explores an area of your academic interest or professional practice. Individual tutorials are provided from an experienced research supervisor in addition to regular peer-led seminars.
