MA Education Practice

About this course

Aimed at Newly or Recently Qualified Teachers, LJMU's Education Practice MA is linked to the NQT year and early professional development needs.

• Benefit from a programme specifically designed to support NQTs/RQTs
• Meet your early professional development needs
• Enjoy flexible delivery, support and fit studying around your work commitments
• Enhance your career prospects as a teacher

Having completed your postgraduate initial teacher training programme, you can enhance your teaching practice with this LJMU Masters course, as you embark on your career in education.

This programme is designed to support NQTs/RQTs and focuses on practice-based learning. Your learning development will be aligned with both your professional setting and individual needs and assessment will involve engagement in practice-based research projects.

When it comes to Continuing Professional Development for educationalists, we have over 30 years' experience. Course tutors offer a wide range of expertise and contribute to the development of national initiatives and policy in curriculum development, school leadership and governance, and initial teacher education.

Successful completion of this programme will give you enhanced knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice around current research-based initiatives in teaching and learning and the ability to critically assess their impact on learners.

Assessment

How learning is monitored on your programme

To cater for the wide-ranging content of our courses and the varied learning preferences of our students, we offer a range of assessment methods on each programme. Assessment techniques vary from module to module to reflect relevant assessment approaches and the key learning points of each topic.

All assessments are closely linked to school and college-based practice and involve the completion of reports, small scale practice-based research projects, presentations, and critical reflections on professional practice.

You will need: to have completed an initial teacher training programme at postgraduate or undergraduate level and have achieved Qualified Teacher Status; to be employed as a teacher during your period of study.