Teacher Education

This is a professional development course for new and experienced teacher educators involved in pre-service and in-service education in mathematics or science. The course offers significant, innovative and sustained education, bringing together teacher educators in the UK, EU and internationally.

Graduate destinations

This new course is intended to provide the first systematic and sustained education for new and experienced teacher educators in mathematics and science that are both school and university-based.  The course will enhance the participants’ skills as teacher educators and their ability to develop their practice through research, and to contribute to the education research community through their research activity including publications to professional and academic research journals.

This two-year course is for university and school-based mathematics or science teacher educators who are interested in increasing their knowledge and skills base required for effective and inspirational teacher education.  The course focuses on the processes of research and practice to inform the design and teaching of teacher education programmes, the ability to conduct research to develop practice, and the ability to participate in debates about teaching and teacher education in your own subject. 

The course combines online learning with two residential components in Oxford.  It involves four taught units comprising investigations focused on participants’ own practice and tasks which involve individual and group work.  Assessment will be through an assignment for each of the units, plus a dissertation in the final term of the second year of the course.  Areas covered in the assessments include: issues in subject teaching and learning; analysis and critique of current practice; analysis and critique of research articles; links between theory and practice; construction of arguments for particular processes; implementation and evaluation of a task; and implications for teacher education.

The university’s Virtual Learning Environment (WebLearn) is used to support the work on each task and sustain critical discussion.  Supervision of students’ work will mainly be offered within small groups, and from a University supervisor within either the mathematics or science area.  Each subject area will be taught separately, with whole group presentations taking place during the residential weeks

Applicants are normally expected to be predicted or have achieved a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours (or equivalent international qualifications), as a minimum, in the relevant subject area for their work in their educational institution.

For applicants with a degree from the USA, the minimum GPA sought is 3.6 out of 4.0.

If you hold non-UK qualifications and wish to check how your qualifications match these requirements, you can contact the National Recognition Information Centre for the United Kingdom (UK NARIC).

No Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or GMAT scores are sought.

• Official transcript(s)
• CV/résumé
• Personal statement:One page
• Written work:Either one essay of 4,000 words or two essays of 2,000 words each
• References/letters of recommendation:Three overall, generally academic

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

Higher level

Want to improve your English level for admission?

Prepare for the program requirements with English Online by the British Council.

• ✔️ Flexible study schedule
• ✔️ Experienced teachers
• ✔️ Certificate upon completion

📘 Recommended for students with an IELTS level of 6.0 or below.

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A number of Research Council awards are available each year from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).