Effective Learning and Teaching MA

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.

Features

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.

Who is this programme for?

Experienced teachers with an interest in enhancing learning and teaching.

Entry requirements

A 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.

Related topics

• Educational assessment
• Educational testing
• Curriculum design and development.

How are you assessed?

By coursework assignments (including individual and group assessment tasks) and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.

Attendance

Face-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

Recommended modules

• Investigating Research Into Schooling, Curriculum, Teaching And Learning