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Course Leaflet (pdf)
The Programme aims to provide a response to the continuing professional development needs of fully qualified educationalists who wish to advance their skills and knowledge, enhance their professional practice, and extend their capacity to lead and shape change in a range of educational settings.
Fundamental to the programme is the belief that all learners have the same rights and are of equal worth, irrespective of their ability, cultural background, race, gender or age. All learners have the right to be educated alongside their peers, and young people’s needs are best met through systems of shared responsibility.
The programme aims to help practitioners review and enhance the learning experience of all children and young people, including those with additional support needs. It endeavours to give experienced practitioners the time, opportunity and support to examine existing practice in the light of new knowledge and insights. It also aims to enable practitioners to build upon the range of experiences and different perspectives found amongst groups of colleagues supporting pupils with additional support needs, in a variety of contexts and settings, by exposing these to sustained discussion and critical appraisal.
A central feature of the course is the use of collaborative enquiry as a tool for creating new knowledge and transforming practice, by synthesising literature, personal and professional reflection and practice.
Another feature of the programme is its strong focus on transformative professionalism – an enhanced and extended professionalism which has at its core the need for practitioners to take evidence-based action to generate professional knowledge and move practice forward. This form of professionalism, in contrast with older formulations, is characterised not by self interest and external regulation, but rather by the motivation to contribute to the collaborative development of practice and make informed contributions to professional debate.
The programme is structured as follows:
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After completing 60 credits within the certificate programme participants must complete:
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After completing 120 credits participants may complete:
The Work-based Project necessarily involves the identification of a problem and professional action in the form of an Action Research project to invent and test a solution.
The Dissertation study can take any form including an empirical investigation, a theory-driven exploration or library based study.
At present, the programme is offered on a face to face basis only.
Each module represents 150 hours of notional student effort, distributed among the following activities:
All assessment arrangements are designed to support the principle that assessment is an integral part of the continuing professional development processes that programmes seek to support.
Assessment activities arise naturally from the course-related study and workplace experience of participants. Assessment tasks are designed to ensure they are perceived by participants as supportive of their studies and professional growth and relevant to their day to day work and expanding professional role.
Assessment serves formative, summative and evaluative purposes within individual courses and programmes of study. Thus assessment is used to support learning, provide evidence of individual achievement, provide insights into the quality of learning and inform review of the design and delivery of courses.
Evidence of individual achievement in summative assessment tasks recorded for certification purposes will be judged against course criteria, and related to the Common Assessment Scale (CAS).
It may be possible for participants to claim some credit towards the Chartered Teacher award.
If you wish to register for this Programme please complete and return the downloadable form: Application Form (Word - Right click the link and choose save target as to download - 41 Kb)
Email: j.h.bruce@abdn.ac.uk
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