Year 1 Graduate Certificate
Semester 1
1. Reflective and Professional Practice Teaching as a professional; managing a professional learning environment in the classroom; reflective practice; professional growth; professional development planning
2. Elective Module
One of the following will be offered subject to viability: (in coloured highlighted text)
Integrated, Effective Literacy Instruction;
Curriculum research, theory and practice;
Innovation in science teaching;
Play and young childrens learning;
ICT: teaching and learning;
Learning through mentoring
Tumoideachas: Comhtháthú Teanga agus Ábhair;
Learning mathematics: active methodologies and problem solving;
Incredible Years Classroom Management;
Steiner Pedagogy;
Semester 2
3. Elective Module
One other elective from the above list will be offered here.
Learning mathematics: active methodologies and problem solving
Year 2 Graduate Diploma
Semester 1
Leadership and learning
Curriculum leadership in schools; meaning, theory and practice of educational leadership: instructional leadership; educational change; professional learning communities; styles of leadership.
2. Elective Module
One of the following will be offered subject to viability:
Integrated, Effective Literacy Instruction;
Curriculum research, theory and practice;
Innovation in science teaching;
Play and young childrens learning;
ICT: teaching and learning;
Learning through mentoring
Tumoideachas: Comhtháthú Teanga agus Ábhair;
Learning mathematics: active methodologies and problem solving;
Incredible Years Classroom Management;
Steiner Pedagogy;
Semester 2
3. Elective Module
One other elective from the above list will be offered here.
4. Teacher Research in Professional Studies
Research project focused on a particular aspect of practice; conducting a literature review; research design, data collection and analysis; integrating concepts introduced in other modules; potential of different forms of enquiry for understanding professional studies
The MEd takes place in Year 3 and involve a substantial research project on some aspect of teachers professional learning.
