Key Features
The programme is designed to enable students to develop their professional values, knowledge and action in the following ways:
- Enable students, independently and with others, to critically engage with the theory and practice of adult/further education
- Develop students’ knowledge and skills in curriculum planning, teaching and assessment in accordance with given programme and learner needs
- Promote a capacity and a commitment among students to reflective practice, enquiry and research in their teaching taking account of the interdependence of student learning and teacher learning
- Empowers students to create and sustain learning relationships with learners, taking account of the diverse and holistic needs of the adult learner
- Foster a commitment to the values which underpin the professionalism in teaching, including professional care and service to others, responsiveness to change, commitment to their own development as lifelong and collegial learners
A variety of assessment modes are utilised on the programme including course work, presentations, a portfolio and an action research project. The Graduate Diploma is taught using a blend of learning situations (onsite, online and teaching practice). Classes are held at weekends from 2-9pm on Friday and on Saturday morning 9.30am-12.30pm.
