Teaching and Learning (Postgraduate Certificate) Westminster International University in Tashkent

Overview

Through your attendance, you will demonstrate commitment to your continuous professional development that will then enable you to achieve your future goals.

The Teaching and Learning course from Westminster International University in Tashkent leading to the Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning will provide you with an integrated and supported programme of professional development that will enable you to:

• Take a lead in the development of teaching in your area of expertise;

• Engage critically with the scholarship of learning and teaching through your own practice;

• Extend areas of practice in learning and teaching to new fields of interest;

• Conduct research in learning and teaching in higher education; and

• Accredit your professional development.

How you will study

All modules will build on your current practice and use the resources of your peer group to maximise your personal development and share learning across diverse domains. The course draws extensively on models of critical reflection as a means of questioning and theorising professional practice. This may take the form of learning through inquiry into individual practice, research, reflection, collaborative learning as well as modelling student’s experience as a vehicle for reflection. Blended learning tasks will be employed to provide you with a diversity of learning experiences so that your professional commitments are successfully accommodated.

Teaching of the course will be in the form of mentoring, coaching and facilitation through reflective practice and research projects with structured independent learning. Teaching and learning strategies are underpinned by three guiding principles:

• a collegial relationship between the teaching team and participants;
• a recognition of the participants’ varying experience in education; and
• a conceptualisation of the course as a vehicle for modelling principles of best practice teaching and facilitating learning.