Entry requirements: Normally a first or second-class Honours degree or a professional qualification such as Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
Part-time: Up to 5 years
This programme is delivered at: Winchester (or it may be delivered elsewhere in the region by negotiation and where group size permits)
CPD Programme Administrator: Tony Simmons
Telephone +44 (0) 1962 827327
Email Tony.Simmons@winchester.ac.uk
If English is not your first language: IELTS 6.5 (including 6.5 in academic writing) or a TOEFL score of 575 (paper-based) or 232 (computer-based) or equivalent
Start dates: Modules start throughout the year
Application process: Direct Entry Application Form
The programme is designed to enhance and deepen pedagogic knowledge of learning and aspects of students’ professional role in their workplace. Students build up credits by undertaking a range of optional modules allowing them to focus on issues relevant to their own professional practice. They also complete the module Practitioner Research prior to putting together a research plan as preparation for the dissertation.
Students take optional modules which enable them to identify and develop an aspect of their professional work with a tutor’s support. The modules are flexible, allowing for shorter submissions for 20 credits (4,000 words) through to longer submissions for 40 credits (8,000 words).
Optional modules include:
• Examining Professional Practice
• Improving Practice Through a Project
• Individual Practitioner-based Enquiry
• Developing Pedagogy and Learning
Examples of taught courses include:
• Museum Education
• Improving Writing Through Film
• Wellbeing and Education
• The Outdoor Classroom
• Comparative Education (with a visit to The Gambia)
• NPQH Accreditation
• NQT Accreditation
• SEN including:
- National SENCO Accreditation
- Additional Communication Needs
- The Vulnerable Child
- Positive Behaviour Support
The teaching team is mainly drawn from the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care and from other experienced specialists such as local authority Inspection and advisory teams.
Assessments for each of the optional and compulsory modules are the equivalent of 4,000 words per 20 credits and may take the form of reflective journals, portfolios, case studies or workplace-based assignments.
A Masters degree is increasingly seen as an essential qualification for senior school positions. The programme also develops skills and knowledge for significant professional
development and it can form the basis of a research degree or further training.