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Module

EDU8139 : NPQML Accreditation

  • Offered for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Professor Rene Koglbauer
  • Owning School: Education, Communication & Language Sci
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 2 Credit Value: 20
ECTS Credits: 10.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

In line with national developments, initiated by UCET and the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), this assignment leads to Level M accreditation of the NPQML qualification. The aim behind this is to increase recruitment onto our PGCert and MEd/MA programme.

Students reflect upon their school improvement work, using their National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership as the focus. They contextualise this by making links between practice evidence, research evidence and theory in relevant fields. Students select a focus based either on their middle leadership of an improvement initiative in their remit, or the nature of the initiative itself. Students may use their in-school project as a basis of their assignment.

Outline Of Syllabus

The module is not taught, but student reflection and resulting written work is supported through face to face and email tutorials.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion150:0050:00N/A
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study1147:00147:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesDissertation/project related supervision31:003:00N/A
Total200:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

N/A

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Essay2M1002500 word critical comm on aspects of NPQML in-school project(s) comp during NPQML programme/critical reflection aspects of NPQML
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

This assignment is designed to critically and academically reflect on NPQML programme

Students are not expected to complete this assignment without tutorial support, both face to face and on-line.

Participants submit a critical commentary which is based around a case study of a leadership initiative which they have led as its basis. There are two questions to select from which relate this practice evidence to theory and research in relevant fields. The first option focuses on leadership of the initiative. The second option focuses on the nature of the initiative itself.
Individual programme according to negotiation with module leader.

Reading Lists

Timetable