Advanced Educational Practice

This Graduate Diploma has been developed to enable participants to reflect on their own educational practice, taking a professional academic approach. The programme's presentation is either fully online for individual students or mixed mode for those joining a school-based cohort group (minimum of 20 participants for the whole programme which includes MA participants).

This programme has been developed to respond to educational practitioner needs in both UK and international settings.

Students undertake modules to the value of 120 credits.

The programme consists of four optional 30 credit modules out of those available.

Students are able to exit with a Graduate Certificate on successful completion of two 30 credit modules (60 credits).

Core modules

There is no core module in the GD Advanced Educational Practice programme, only in the MA Advanced Educational Practice programme.

Optional modules

Students choose four of the following:

• Developing Mentoring Practices
• Independent Study
• Supporting Learners and Learning
• Teacher as Author: curriculum design and development
• The Action Researcher: exploring issues and contexts

Teaching and learning

This programme is delivered through a combination of workshops and tutorials to school-based cohort groups or fully online through our virtual learning environment (VLE) Moodle, to individuals. All participants are assessed by coursework (which may be an essay, portfolio or presentation) on completion of each module and receive both formative written assessment on a draft and summative written assessment following final submission.

An ordinary degree or level 5 equivalent qualification (e.g. Cambridge International Education Professional Development Qualification studied in English) as this is an Honours level award (i.e. level 6).

English language requirements

If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency.