Clara Azzopardi has been conferred a Master’s in Education by the University of Nottingham. She attended the two-year course on a part-time basis, as the University of Nottingham offers the facility of a summer school.
This gives the opportunity to full-time teachers with family commitments to experience taught modules (face-to-face teaching) by experienced academics during summer.
The taught modules are adapted to the individual’s needs and experience and the final assessment is geared towards the personal development in the individual’s area of expertise.
Azzopardi’s dissertation involved a study on co-teaching and its impact on differentiated learning. Differentiated learning was a new journey her school (as well as other schools around Malta) was embarking on at the start of her Master’s.
This gave Azzopardi the opportunity to apply what she was learning in the classroom and, likewise, she found interesting the fact that she could relate her experiences in her dissertation.
Soon after her conferment, she was appointed inclusive coordinator at the Secretariat for Catholic Education. Her degree was carried out following the award of a Steps scholarship, partly financed by the EU – European Social Fund (ESF) under Operational Programme II – Cohesion Policy 2007-2013, ‘Empowering people for more jobs and a better quality of life’.