The learning strategies will require participants to commit 300 learning hours of which 30 hours will consist of contact time.

Contact Time takes two forms:
Mandatory: 2 x 7hr (2 Day Residential School) - Sessions will `normally' comprise the following activity types;
- lectures and presentations by the tutor;
- seminars and workshops to generate discussion, reflection and exchange of ideas;
- practical workshops for the analysis and discussion of issues, documents and materials;
- case-study activities to establish connections between the workplace and issues raised by the programme;
- critical feedback from peers and tutors on presentations, workplace experiences and standpoints taken on issues raised in taught sessions;
- work with others, which enables participants to develop interpersonal skills, the capacity to plan, to share goals and work as a member of a team, communicate and present oral and written arguments;
- support from the peer group through collaborative learning activities

Mandatory Personalised: 16 Hours of learning as determined by personalised action plan. This learning will `normally' comprise the following activity types;
- Guided reading, supported self-study and independent study to enable participants to engage with relevant and appropriate debates;
- Individual tutorials to support development of understanding;
- Case-study activities to establish connections between the workplace and issues raised by the programme;
- Work Related Learning - Both Inter and Intra School learning opportunities (e.g.; lesson observation, professional dialogue, attendance at network meetings, engagement with Training schools) which provide the opportunity to link theoretical perspectives to practice. It will enable participants to reflect on values, practices, assumptions and policies;
- Information and Communication Technology, including word processing, data bases, internet communication, information retrieval and on-line searches and engagement with DcSF training materials.
- VLE (Blackboard) will be used to facilitate exchange of ideas and access to specific resources and activities. Participants will be required to use word processing, data bases, internet communication, information retrieval and on-line searches throughout their studies
- Engagement with HEI M level Modules, Private Provider Course, e.g.; National College for School Leadership or Local Authority Professional Development

An additional 270 Hours of Independent study are required: The hours of independent study will require participants to take responsibility for relating the issues addressed in this module to their personal experience, for reading and thinking about their work and relating all this to their own working context. This will form the basis of the assignment.

Associates will study this module following Module 7 (Professional Practice Enquiry 1 - Evidence Based Practice) and apply the learning in that module to the empirical work to be undertaken;

Indicative content includes:
- the framing of enquiry in education
- the planning of a project - stages, timing and review processes
- Dissemination - rationale and methods
- Reflection on enquiry

TWM MTL University libraries
TWM MTL VLE

Cohen, L., Manion, L. and Morrison, K. (2007) Research methods in education,(London: Routledge)
Gillham, B. (2000) Case Study methods, (London: Continuum Books).
Gillham, B. (2000) Developing a Questionnaire, (London: Continuum Books).
Hopkins, D. (1993) A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Research, (Buckingham:
Open University Press).
Lowe, M. (2006) Beginning Research (Abingdon Routledge)
Middlewood, D., Coleman, M. and Lumby, J. (1999) Practitioner research in education: Making a difference, (London: Paul Chapman Publishing).
Silverman, D. (1993) Interpreting qualitative data, (London: Sage).
Silverman, D. (2000) Doing Qualitative Research, (London: Sage).

Associates will conduct the Enquiry (identified in Module 7 - Professional Practice Enquiry 1 - Evidence Based Practice) plus dissemination of findings from enquiry in 2 of the following forms:
- Staff meeting
- Written information sheet
- Poster
- Conference presentation
- Viva

(10000 words equivalent : tests learning outcomes 1-5)

In addition Associates will be required to submit a critical reflection on their MTL journey. This should utilise a 360 degree review process (500 words equivalent) - Zero Weighted