📖Program Curriculum
Learning will be a blend of online and face-to-face. Activities will be a combination of lectures seminars group activities and individual activities.
Assessments are all coursework assignments and will be submitted at the end of each module. Wherever possible assignments have been designed to complement the working contexts and schedules of full-time teachers.
The six ‘Principles of Masters’ Level Professional Learning in Wales’ will inform the pedagogical content of both the face to face and online instructional design of the modules. These are:
Professional learning positively impacts on all learners who are at the centre of the NAPL.
Professional learning enables all practitioners to take a sustained critical contextual and collaborative approach to professional practice.
Professional learning is led by practitioners’ individual needs and interests and is aligned to the National Mission.
Professional learning develops practitioner research and enquiry skills and knowledge through critical analysis and reflection on practice.
Professional learning fosters research literacy and evidence-based practice.
Professional learning enhances pedagogical content knowledge and informs the improvement of professional practice and judgement.
Modules typically include:
Advanced Research and Enquiry Skills
Additional Learning Needs
Excellence in Practice
Curriculum Design and Realisation
Evidence-Informed Practice
National Conferences Delivery Days (September 2023 start)
Term 1
22 October 2022
19 November 2022
Term 2
11 February 2023
11 March 2023
Terms 2 and 3 (ALN and Leadership Pathways Only)
24 June 2023
15 July 2023
ARES Sessions (September 2023 start)
ARES sessions 16:00-18:00
XME 4312 Advanced Research and Enquiry Skills Topic (September 2023 start)
13.10.22 CS 1 Planning a research enquiry study
10.11.22 CS 1 and 2
26.01.23 CS 2 Exploring debates in Educational Research
16.03.23 CS 3 Research Design 1: Methodologies Paradigms & Perspectives
18.05.23 CS 3 and 4
16.06.23 CS 4 Research Design 2: Methods Analysis and Representation
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