Postgraduate - UnitEDF5098 - Professional learning project

The professional learning project is designed to enhance professional learning to strengthen students' capacity to contribute to the core work of improving teaching and learning within an educational setting. The professional learning project allows participants to undertake and demonstrate professional learning in relation to a specific theme, issue or within a particular context. The project involves the design of a self-directed project focusing on an issue or theme which becomes the basis of a small-scale inquiry. Students learn how to set out the key features of a professional learning project, and how to select appropriate criteria for evaluating the quality of their design. The project articulates an inquiry question that responds to the theme or issue identified. Students gather and evaluate existing research data; the project describes and assesses the data and extrapolates meaning from the data to identify a set of findings in relation to the theme. The project identifies implications for professional learning and action.