Graduate Certificate in Education (Instructional Leadership)

Program Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Education (Instructional Leadership) aims to enhance teaching skills by integrating new pedagogies and perspectives. It explores leadership, educational transformation, and instructional theories for practical applications. Upon completion, students can critically analyze instruction theories and design and implement instructional change programs. The program prepares individuals for leadership careers such as school principals and superintendents.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Graduate Certificate in Education (Instructional Leadership) is designed to enhance the skills of practicing teachers in areas of need, passion, and various stages of learning. The program aims to improve current teaching methods by integrating new pedagogies, content, and perspectives. It provides a multifaceted approach to upskilling, promoting high levels of engagement and real-world learning experiences. The curriculum focuses on personalizing learning and addressing current challenges in education that the teaching workforce faces. The Graduate Major in Instructional Leadership explores leadership, educational transformation, and instructional theories, and how these concepts can be applied practically in the dynamic field of education. Students will delve into various teaching techniques, their proper implementation, and the research that supports them. The program offers the opportunity to progress with advanced standing and complete the Master of Education (MEd) with just 24 additional credits, as its sections are integrated with those in the MEd program.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Critically analyze a range of theories of instruction, educational change, and leadership, reflecting on their implications for their own practice.
• Review, investigate, and synthesize educational change and leadership incidents and issues through various lenses and perspectives.
• Design and implement a range of instructional change programs and initiatives, informed by research.
• Critically reflect on their own practice to improve personal growth and performance in designing and leading instructional change programs.

Outline:

Course Structure:

• MJ-IL - Instructional Leadership (12 cp)
• EDN541 | 3 cp | Practical Methods of Instruction

Careers:

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Education (Instructional Leadership) are well-prepared for careers in educational leadership, including:

• School Principals
• Superintendents
• Curriculum Reviewers
• Community Education Directors
• Education Specialists
The program equips individuals to handle multiple school systems, meet rising accountability demands, and manage finances as high-level administrators. Effective educational leaders possess strong moral character, interpersonal skills, goal-achievement, good conflict management, and coordination abilities.

Other:

The program is delivered on campus, online, or in a hybrid format. The duration is 8 months, spread over 2 trimesters (12 credits). The intake date is September. The tuition fee for the entire course is AED 25,000, inclusive of VAT.

Faculty Profiles:

• Discipline Lead – Faiza Qureshi:
• Holds a Master of Education degree from Murdoch University (Dubai), a UG Dip in English from the University of London (UK), and an ICELT qualification from Cambridge (UK).
• Has Senior Fellowship and AFHEA from Advance HE.
• Has over 15 years of experience in the education sector.
• Actively engaged in several SoTL and higher education research projects.
• Regularly publishes articles in academic journals on learning and teaching in higher education.
• Co-authored an ESL book and a few works of fiction.
• Served as a Vice Principal at a school and is on the stakeholders' committees for schools.

Tuition Fee for the Entire Course (AED): 25,000 Tuition fees are inclusive of VAT