Education

This Education program, offered by Teesside University develops your academic and professional skills and knowledge in an area of education that will help your future career. You develop a range of advanced research skills appropriate to postgraduate study and professional practice that will enable you to critically evaluate existing work and design research to further knowledge within education

The learning and teaching strategy of the Education course from Teesside University encourages an individualised and progressive acquisition of knowledge and skills required for postgraduate study.

Key Facts

Learning is scaffolded by moving from study methods that have a greater degree of support and guidance gradually towards more independence and self-direction. You are supported to choose an area of education that is relevant to your own current or future professional practice which can form the focus of your learning.

Within each module you focus on an area of education that is particularly relevant and useful to your future career. Previous students have focussed on exploring teaching phonics, developing enhanced support for students with learning needs in tertiary education, exploring how social interactions can be used to develop teacher-child relationships, looking at the efficacy of the use of tools with non-verbal children, how to enhance teaching of maths and literacy at a range of levels.

How you are assessed

Staff have a wide range of educational backgrounds and specialist interests to support for your cross-disciplinary interests and multi-agency working. Another important element is how we support your transition to studying at level 7.

You are offered academic support to help you understand the requirements of master’s level study; to develop your skills in academic writing and referencing, critical thinking and critical writing; and in the key IT skills such as literature searching.

The assessment allows you to reflect on your own practice and context, and produce assessed work that benefits your working context. Student feedback on the program has consistently highlighted the level of support from the staff as a major contributor to their success.

Courses include:

• Combining Professional and Academic Practice

• Contextualising Education

• Dissertation

• Educational Research: Practice and Planning

• Using the Literature to Inform Educational Research