MA Education Practice

You will need:

to have completed an initial teacher training programme at postgraduate level and have achieved Qualified Teacher Status

to be employed as a teacher during your period of study

Additional information:

RPL is accepted on this programme

IELTS score 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in each component)

Pearson 58-64 (minimum 51 in each component for UKVI purposes)

If you have any specific queries, please contact education@ljmu.ac.uk

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LJMU has an excellent record with 96% (HESA 2018) of our postgraduates in work or further study six months after graduation. Our applied learning techniques and strong industry connections ensure our students are fully prepared for the workplace on graduation and understand how to apply their knowledge in a real world context.

The course is intended for those working in educational settings and, on graduation, you may progress to research-based study through engaging with our MPhil and PhD programmes in education.

Many of our students will go on to achieve their career goals by securing leadership and other posts of responsibility in schools and colleges.

Professional Practice for Beginning Teachers

20 credits

This module will enable you to evidence your development as a professional through investigation of your school and professional practice, allowing you to reflect on a range of issues that relate theory and practice. It aims to:

• • enable you to employ a range of techniques for reflection and analysis

• • critically review and evaluate your own school-based practice in relation to current research and learning, teaching and assessment and other professional issues in teaching

• • enable you to use reflective practice in meeting your professional development needs as a newly qualified teacher

Pedagogy in Practice

20 credits

This module is designed to support newly or recently qualified teachers in the critical reflection of planning and delivering learning sequences. It will enable you to:

• • evidence how theory on planning, as well as subject specific perspectives, interact with its application in your classroom, allowing you to reflect on a range of issues that relate theory and practice

• • examine and understand better the process of planning for learning and its inter-dependency on subject knowledge issues and learner needs

• • explore the relationship between theory and practice of planning for continuity, progression and learning impact in the classroom

Inclusion

20 credits

This module is designed to support newly or recently qualified teachers in their early professional development. It aims to:

• • equip you with an understanding of the range of children’s educational needs

• • enable you to appreciate the interplay between theory and practice in relation to different educational needs informing practice within the classroom

• • enable you to recognise and respond to the diversity of learners

Subject Pedagogy

20 credits

The module uses a critical perspective to develop understanding of learning and teaching within an identified subject area in the primary or secondary sector. It will enable you to:

• • practice and critically analyse and evaluate different strategies and approaches to learning, teaching and assessment in your subject area

• • have a critical understanding of the subject area in schools, colleges and settings

• • analyse how the subject area is taught in the primary or secondary sectors

• • investigate the development of learner understanding and barriers to learning the subject

• • critically evaluate strategies which promote learning in the subject area

Researching Classroom Practice

20 credits

This module will introduce you to the ideas and analytical possibilities of critical research and the application of a range of theoretical positions to the critical analysis of key research and policy issues in education. It will enable you to:

• • practice, critically analyse and evaluate different strategies and approaches to learning, teaching and assessment in the primary core curriculum areas related to theoretical input

• • develop an understanding of effective learning, teaching and assessment strategies which cater for the needs, within the secondary curriculum subject areas, of diverse learners

• • develop a systematic knowledge and understanding of approaches to practitioner research related to education settings

• • critically evaluate and reflect on the appropriateness and effectiveness of specified learning, teaching and assessment activities

Developing Reflective Professional Practice

20 credits

This module will introduce you to the concepts of reflection on professional practice and aspects of current policy and research relating to learning, teaching and assessment and professional issues in primary and secondary contexts. It will enable you to:

• • systematically develop and demonstrate and critically reflect on evidence of competence in all national standards relating to qualified teacher status

• • employ a range of techniques for reflection and analysis to critically review and evaluate your own school-based practice in relation to current research on LTA and professional issues in teaching

Professional Inquiry

60 credits

This module is the generic Masters element of the MA programme and is a core activity. It provides an opportunity to carry out research projects of relevance to your professional practice and professional development needs, largely independently but with regular individual support from an assigned Supervisor. It enables you to:

• • develop a research proposal to investigate an identified area of interest

• • complete relevant research-based investigation of a defined area that has relevance to your professional practice