Graduate Certificate in Education (Instructional Leadership)

Key Information

Duration and course structure

8 months, 2 trimesters (12 credits)

Intake dates

September

Mode of delivery

On campus

Online

Hybrid 

Fees

Tuition Fee for the Entire Course (AED): 25,000

Tuition fees are inclusive of VAT.

Qualification: Graduate Certificate in Education (Instructional Leadership)

The majors offered by the Graduate Certificate in Education program are created expressly to upgrade the skills of practising teachers in areas of need, passion, and various stages of learning. The course strives to improve current teaching methods by integrating new pedagogies, content, and views. To promote high levels of engagement and real-world learning experiences, trained teachers will be provided with a multifaceted approach to upskilling. The curriculum aims to personalise learning and deal with current difficulties in education that the teaching workforce must deal with.

The Graduate Major in Instructional Leadership investigates leadership, educational transformation, and instructional theories, as well as how these ideas might be used practically in the challenging and evolving field of education. Students will investigate a variety of teaching techniques, their proper implementation, and the research that backs them up.

Are you considering doing more research in the area of global education? Because this Graduate Certificate's sections are integrated with those in our Master of Education program, you can progress with advanced standing and finish the MEd with just 24 extra credits.

Learning outcomes

  1. Critically analyse a range of theories of instruction, educational change and leadership and reflect on the implications of these for own practice.
  2. Review, investigate and synthesise educational change and leadership incidences and issues through a range of lenses and perspectives.
  3. Design and implement a range of instructional change programs and initiatives, informed by research.
  4. Critically reflect on own practice to improve personal growth and performance in designing and leading instructional change programs.

Course structure

MJ-IL - Instructional Leadership

Instructional Leadership Major 12 cp

  •           EDN541 | 3 cp | Practical Methods of Instruction
  •           EDN505 | 3 cp | Leading Educational Change
  •           EDN517 | 6 cp | Learning: Multiple Perspectives, Policies and Practices 

Your career

As the need for professional educators rises, so does the demand for graduates from certified programs in educational leadership.

Careers in educational leadership can be found in these areas:

  • School Principals
  • Superintendents
  • Curriculum Reviewers
  • Community Education Directors
  • Education Specialists

A leader in education can handle multiple school systems, meet rising accountability demands, and manage finances by preparing for a career as a high-level administrator. Strong moral character, interpersonal skills, goal-achievement, good conflict management, and coordination are all traits of effective educational leaders.

Faculty profiles – M.ED

Faiza Qureshi is the Discipline Lead for the Master of Education and Foundation Programs at Murdoch University, Dubai. She serves as Chair of the Learning and Teaching Committee and is a full-time lecturer for the MEd and Graduate Certificates in Education courses. Faiza currently teaches courses in education on policy analysis, teaching and learning in culturally diverse environments, teaching methodologies and research for educators. She is also an associate editor for a Scopus-indexed Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching.

Currently pursuing a PhD in Education from Murdoch University (Australia), Faiza 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). She also has Senior Fellowship and AFHEA from Advance HE.

With a career spanning over 15 years in the education sector, Faiza is actively engaged in  several SoTL and higher education research projects and regularly publishes articles in academic journals on learning and teaching in higher education; she has been on an editorial board of an ELT journal for several years and has also co-authored an ESL book and a few works of fiction. Faiza has also been a Vice Principal at a school and serves on the stakeholders' committees for schools.