Leadership for Learning
Courses
Link between Teaching and Research
As part of its commitment to research intensiveness, the group is careful to ensure that its teaching is “research-driven”. That is, in their decision-making about teaching, group members are guided by two key precepts:
- They are working with and assisting in the development of the next-generation of educational researchers
- They are influenced strongly by the research findings of group colleagues, along with those of other leading scholars, in their choice of content and classroom learning activites.
Range of Provision
The LfL academic group contributes to a range of Faculty courses. These are mostly at the Certificate, Masters and Doctoral levels. For the Masters level, LfL provides a specialist track in the MPhil and MEdRes degrees, to which many group members contribute. These teaching programs encompass a range of topics concerned with school and organisational leadership, leadership for learning, assessment for learning, pedagogy, and improvement and effectiveness. The main Masters level course taught by the group is in Leadership for Learning (previously known as Educational Leadership and School Improvement).
www.educ.cam.ac.uk/courses/graduate/masters/elsi.html
The group has also developed significant and extensive partnership-based approaches to professional development with local schools and authorities.