Birmingham City University Masters in Teaching and Learning for teachers of arts subjects. What s Your Problem.

What’s Your

Problem….

Birmingham City University

Masters in Teaching and Learning for teachers of arts subjects

….In Arts

Education?

Birmingham City University

Masters in Teaching and Learning for teachers of arts subjects

Whatever it is, it can be

addressed through accredited

action research enquiry:-

Birmingham City University

Masters in Teaching and Learning for teachers of arts subjects

Whatever it is, it can be

addressed through accredited

action research enquiry:-

What is action research enquiry

and how can it improve my

teaching and/or management?

Birmingham City University

Masters in Teaching and Learning for teachers of arts subjects

Changing Schools and the Need for Subject Specific CPD

Research shows (Tribal Group, 2010) that professional development for teachers is the key driver of school improvement. Increasing the subject-expertise of the

teaching workforce without placing a greater burden on funding and without

taking teachers away from their students is a key tool in this. Flexible and tailored CPD opportunities that allow for teachers with differing levels of experience to grow in their roles is crucial. The new Masters in Teaching and Learning being offered at BCU enables this to happen.

Subject expertise is crucial to school improvement and pupil attainment. Research shows that it is best achieved not through attendance at courses, but through an ongoing and sustained relationship with professional learning. The new Masters in Teaching and Learning being offered at BCU enables teachers of arts subjects to develop their subject specific expertise through its action research and cyclical learning model.

Changing Schools and the Need for Subject Specific CPD

The Masters in Teaching and Learning will enable teachers of arts subjects, in partnership with academic staff at BCU, to tailor action research directed specifically at the needs of the teacher and their institution. The theoretical

underpinnings of learning through subject specific materials will be used to inform action research that will directly improve practice in the school, and through this, the outcomes for pupils.

This input is particularly timely when schools will be seeking justifications for their arts budgets. Arts subject teachers, middle leaders and senior leadership teams will be looking to robustly and rigorously justify their subjects using the language of school improvement for the 21st _{Century. The new Masters in Teaching and}

Learning will enable arts subject staff at all levels of development to access this language and implement it directly into their classroom or departmental practice.

Masters in Teaching &

Learning (MTL)

MA Education

1

60 credits

Introductory modules:

•Developing professional enquiry skills Stage

2

60 credits

Enquiry modules:

•Teaching and learning,

personalisation and assessment for learning

•Subject knowledge and curriculum development

•Learner development and inclusion

•Leadership and management, working with others

Taught modules:

•Current issues in education

•Change management in education

•Management and leadership in education

•Managing educational improvement

•Coaching and mentoring in education

Flexible modules:

•Research in Professional Practice

•Enhancing Professional Practice Stage

3

60 credits •Professional Practice Enquiry •Dissertation

Teacher Appraisal Improvement planning Action and collaboration Professional development Self evaluation

MTL

process

MTL can be

closely linked to

personal,

departmental

and institutional

development

priorities.

What is Practice Based Enquiry?

Let’s work through some potential practice based enquiries:-

Teacher Appraisal

Identify two things:- 1) Something that you or others think is very successful in your practice. Write it on a post-it note. Say why this aspect of your practice is regarded as successful.

2) Something that you or others think is problematic or unresolved in your practice. Write it on a postcard.

Improvement Planning

Choose one of the above to discuss with the group. Your discussion should focus on how you can improve on your current practice. Consider the following:-

1) What would be suitable data to provide evidence of current performance?

2) What indicators would you need to look for to provide evidence of improvement?

3) Decide what role the university would play in your improvement planning

Action and Collaboration

Consider the practice based enquiry that you would need to do to gather data and demonstrate indicators. List the following:- 1) What role would the university play in these actions?

2) What innovations could this lead to in your teaching/management? 3) How would you record the impact of these innovations?

4) How would you share your findings? Professional Development

What is Practice Based Enquiry?

Let’s work through some potential practice based enquiries:-

Teacher Appraisal

Identify two things:- 1) Something that you or others think is very successful in your practice. Write it on a post-it note. Say why this aspect of your practice is regarded as successful.

2) Something that you or others think is problematic or unresolved in your practice. Write it on a postcard.

Improvement Planning

Choose one of the above to discuss with the group. Your discussion should focus on how you can improve on your current practice. Consider the following:- 1) What would be suitable data to provide evidence of current

performance?

2) What indicators would you need to look for to provide evidence of improvement?

3) Decide what role the university would play in your improvement planning

Action and Collaboration

Consider the practice based enquiry that you would need to do to gather data and demonstrate indicators. List the following:-

1) What role would the university play in these actions?

2) What innovations could this lead to in your teaching/management? 3) How would you record the impact of these innovations?

4) How would you share your findings?

Professional Development

For more details contact:-

Peter Carr

[email protected]

Phil Taylor

[email protected]

Ian Axtell

[email protected]

Karen Teasdale

[email protected]

Birmingham City University

Masters in Teaching and Learning For arts subjects teachers