Who is the course for?

The Transforming Practice MEd course is only offered to University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education PGCE & PACES graduates. It is a one-year part-time route.

If you completed your PGCE at another institution you can either apply to one of the routes available to you on our 2 year part time MPhil courses pages, or gain a PACES or Diploma qualification first through our PPD routes and then apply for this course.

This popular course offers a flexible blended learning approach for full or part time education practitioners at different stages in their career who are interested in developing and transforming their practice. Education practitioner is construed as a broad term to encompass not just teachers in school settings, but teachers in other educational contexts and professionals whose work is located in education settings such as counsellors, those who work with school assessment etc.

What does this course offer?

The course aims to strengthen:

• Knowledgeable practitioners who have an advanced understanding of practices, processes, and outcomes of teaching and learning
• Open-minded practitioners who will challenge practice through critically analysing multiple sources of evidence and developing appropriate arguments for change
• Innovative practitioners who will transform their practice on the basis of their learning
• Influencing practitioners who will develop the practical, organisational and communicative / presentational skills and agency to persuade others

Through the key modules on reflexive practice, innovation in education, and influencing education practice and policy you will engage with debates surrounding education and practice and undertake relevant practical activities. The approach is collaborative, interactive and contextualised. You will also be exploring in depth an area of professional interest to you within a community of enquiry and will undertake a small-scale practical enquiry that aims to transform practice.

The course will enable you to:

• Demonstrate understanding of relevant and ethical professional practice, policies, theories and process of change
• Critically analyse multiple sources of evidence
• Reflect on the challenges and affordances of professional practice and opportunities of change
• Develop a coherent argument supported by policies, theories and practices
• Demonstrate the communication and leadership skills required for effecting change
• Engage others through communication and leadership