Type: Postgraduate
Qualification: MA TEACHING AND FACILITATING (CREATIVE SUBJECTS)
Duration: 2 years part-time (Home and overseas students)
Validated by: University of Kent
Unlock your potential as an arts educator with an MA in Teaching and Facilitating (Creative Subjects). This vibrant, practice-based programme has been designed for arts practitioners, educators, and facilitators passionate about making a difference in diverse learning environments. This programme goes beyond traditional teaching methods, blending teaching and learning theories with your teaching practice, to empower you with the tools and confidence to create meaningful, inclusive, and impactful learning experiences in the creative arts.
You'll gain the skills to inspire and engage learners with diverse profiles and backgrounds through critical exploration and guidance in innovative workshop planning. Our curriculum encourages you to think deeply about your role as an educator and refine your approach to foster transformative learning.
Whatever your career aims, this course will equip you with the key teaching skills you need to succeed in this field and enable you to apply them in a variety of contexts.
*Subject to validation
APPLICATIONS FOR 2025 ENTRY ARE OPEN
The MA Teaching and Facilitating (Creative Subjects) course enables you to develop all aspects of your teaching, combining practical experience with theoretical study.
Students on this course will study one day per week at NSCD, with an expectation that their own professional practice equates to approx. 2 hours per week, or where intensive blocks of engagement in teaching practice during the year enable you to draw practical experience toward learning and assessment. NSCD will support placement experience on occasions when students don’t have this already in place.
There is an expectation that students will carry out independent study in all modules to support lectures and practice. Through the lectures and your practice, you will observe, assist and lead on dance activity, looking at different learning and teaching styles, different learner profiles and how to most effectively educate in an inclusive learning environment.
Through this hands-on approach, you’ll learn how to plan, deliver and assess dance effectively, supported by a specialist tutor at NSCD and an experienced colleague in the workplace/placement.
Please note: an enhanced DBS check is required for those working with children and young people whilst on placement. This is processed on your behalf by NSCD.
This course is designed to enhance all elements of your practice with teaching covering: individual lesson planning, developing a curriculum, how to cater for a full range of learners, creating an inclusive environment and how to develop a research-led teaching practice. It is divided into the following modules:
The programme is ideal for:
The course is not designed at present for those working in hospitals, care home facilities, or social inclusion project facilities for example.
The course welcomes multicultural, international cohorts, and warmly invites applications from the UK, EU, EEA and overseas.
Further to the study day at NSCD, you will spend an equivalent of 60 hours during the year teaching through placement or your present workplace. We welcome and support practitioners working in any of the following to support the professional practice modules:
If NSCD supports placement activity, placements are sourced in the Yorkshire region or the wider North. If you are currently employed in a teaching capacity and wish to make your employer your host institution this is usually ideal.
Teaching at NSCD is tailored to the nature of the modules being taken, combining practical and theoretical learning to best prepare you for the demands of the industry. Taught hours for each module reflect the nature of the module and current professional practice.
This course combines lectures, seminars and tutorial sessions with practical professional experience, workshops, placement/ work-based activity, guided reflection and one-to-ones with tutors – at NSCD and on placement.
Teaching on this course is delivered by staff with a wide range of educational experience ranging from teaching in community and prevocational settings to Higher and Further Education.
When not on placement, you will have access to our wide range of industry-standard facilities on-site to develop your practice, carry out research and test ideas in a supportive, creative learning environment. This includes:
We are committed to providing a holistic experience for our students. Based on a comparison with other courses of an equivalent price, we typically offer the following as ‘value added’:
