PGCert Curriculum, Learning and Assessment

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University of Nottingham

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• Objectives
  The programme aims to improve teachers’ critical understanding of, and practice in facilitating, classroom teaching and learning. These skills should be equally applicable to both early and mid-career professionals. The course addresses issues of learning, from curriculum to assessment, and places an emphasis on understanding the relationships between policy, research and professional practice in schools. You will be encouraged to draw evidence from and research the educational contexts in which you work.
• Academic title
  PGCert Curriculum, Learning and Assessment
• Course description
  Key facts
  
  -The School of Education is one of the largest and most established education departments of any UK university, leading the way in research and teaching quality.
  -Our academics are major national and international figures, in a wide variety of subject areas. As such we are proud to offer a wide range of courses from initial teacher training to the education of adults, from literacy and counselling studies to management and the use of ICT in education.
  
  Course Content
  
  The Postgraduate Certificate in Curriculum, Learning and Assessment is taught through two core 30-credit modules in:
  
  -Understanding Curriculum, Learning and Assessment
  -Research, Policy and Educational Practice
  
  Please note that all module details are subject to change.
  
  Focusing on the young person’s experience of learning, you will examine what children learn in school, how they learn it and how assessment helps to support the learning process.
  
  You will also develop your ability to read critically, and make use of educational research and policy in your own practice.
  
  Course Structure
  
  The Postgraduate Certificate in Curriculum, Learning and Assessment can be taken on a part-time basis over one to two years.
  
  You will attend study in both the autumn and spring semesters. To fit around your other commitments, sessions are timetabled in twilight and weekend sessions. Follow-up work will be required at home.
  
  The course is worth 60 credits and comprises two core modules (detailed above).
  
  Each module is taught through 30 hours of direct teaching in whole group sessions. Electronic or face-to-face individual support and teaching is also provided, as appropriate to students' contexts.
  
  Each 30-credit module is assessed by a written assignment of 5,000-6,000 words. For you to complete the programme successfully, you must achieve a Pass grade on each assignment.
  

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