Course details

Hibernia College’s online Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning provides today’s teachers and educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to deal with current issues in the modern classroom.

Delivered online by experienced education professionals with a focus on classroom application, this masters provides the tools and knowledge to enable teachers to bring the latest innovations and best practice into the class setting. Because the content is based on strategies and techniques (rather than a particular classroom curriculum), graduates from the programme will be able to apply their new skills regardless of the age of the students with whom they work.

Key Points

  • Accreditation: QQI (Qualifications, Quality, Ireland) level 9.
  • Payment plans available.
  • Content delivered through downloadable multimedia lectures and live online tutorials.
  • Assessed through written submitted reports and continuous assessment tasks that apply to classroom practice.
  • Focus on application in the classroom.
  • Delivered by experienced educators.
  • Tax relief on tuition fees available for Irish taxpayers if modules are completed as part of one of Hibernia College’s postgraduate diploma or masters’ programmes.

Learning Outcomes

  • On successful completion of the programme, students will:
  • Be effective, critically reflective practitioners and demonstrate professionalism and high ethical standards in the educational environment
  • Demonstrate analytical skills and knowledge across the spectrum of interrelated subject areas that can be applied critically and strategically to education
  • Critically exercise leadership qualities and skills in diverse educational settings; recognise their role within a team and develop collegial relationships with other professionals from multiple agencies and the wider community
  • Integrate appropriate digital technologies in their pedagogies to ensure effective teaching practices and enhanced student engagement and learning
  • Include parents positively as active partners in the educational process
  • Embrace social inclusion and diversity and have developed skills to challenge bias of all kinds; endeavour to promote equality and social justice in the learning environment and hidden curriculum
  • Provide a supportive, welcoming and flexible learning environment for perse learners and those with additional learning needs, that reflects current good practice
  • Design and execute an independent, critical, and reflective professional investigation which explores the relationship between theory and practice and which utilises the most appropriate research methods to address the identified issues.
  • Be able to adopt an evidence-based approach to develop independent, critical and reflective approaches to professional practice and to enhanced teaching and learning strategies

Syllabus

  • Hibernia College’s Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning consists of the following modules.
  • Sociology of Education and Development Education
  • Promoting social inclusion
  • Incorporating digital tools into 21st century learning environments
  • Behavioural and Relationship Challenges in Schools
  • Current Perspective on Educational Testing
  • Ethics in Professional Practice
  • Leadership in Education
  • Research Methods
  • Minor Dissertation

Entry Requirements

  • All applicants are expected to possess the following:
  • An undergraduate honours degree (Level 8)*

And

  • A recognised teaching qualification and 2 years practical experience in a recognised educational context

Or

  • A minimum of 5 years practical experience in a recognised educational context

And

  • Be working in a recognised educational context

Or

  • Have access to a suitable context in which engagement with learners enables critical reflection

And

  • Applicants whose first language is not English must provide evidence of proficiency in English.
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Hibernia College

Established at the turn of the new millennium, Hibernia College follows an ambitious and forward-thinking strategy in order to play a leading role in education for the future. Hibernia College, Ireland’s only HETAC-accredited online college, is a specialist in post-graduate programmes for professionals across the globe:

  • Providing professional international students access to outstanding faculty from around the world
  • Enabling this faculty to teach in the best possible way by harnessing modern technology
  • Delivering best practice, real-time learning throughout its curricula

Hibernia College’s mission is to:

Make a significant contribution to the development and access to innovative education. They believe that Threi programmes should be measured not only upon their academic rigThrei but in their effectiveness in helping Threi students meet the challenges that they face every day in their professional lives.

To keep abreast of current trends and practices and provide ground-breaking content for Threi global student body, Hibernia College collaborates with Pfizer, Novartis, the Teaching Agency (UK), the International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians (IFAPP), the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and PharmaTrain (Pharmaceutical Medicines Training Programme). Awards and recognition during this 10 years:

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