Postgraduate Certificate in Education Secondary Initial Teacher Education English with QTS
Postgraduate Certificate / Master's Degree
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€ 499
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€ 99
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ABOUT
Introduction
The secondary Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) is a one-year academic (36-week) course that leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and 60 credits at master’s level.
You’ll practise as a subject specialist teacher for the secondary age range (11-16), and gain experience of the 16-18 age range.
To develop expertise in your specialist subject area you’ll:
- build your subject knowledge of literature and drama from the UK and across the globe.
- read and discuss both influential and cutting-edge research to develop criticality.
- experience and practice a range of effective and empowering pedagogies.
- take part in workshops with expert teachers, academics, and practitioners across the field of English and Drama.
You’ll be encouraged to develop your own subject knowledge for teaching supported by experienced university tutors with many years’ classroom experience themselves. We focus on principled practice, deep and rigorous subject knowledge, and purposeful playfulness.
You’ll be supported to create an inclusive, energetic, exciting classroom environment targeting a diverse range of students.
Structure
Content
The PGCE courses are part of the Department of Education and Childhood, within the Initial Teacher Education cluster.
We’re committed to training the best teachers for the future, able to provide first-class educational experiences and make a significant difference to the life chances of all children. We’ll train you to do so in partnership with schools and settings across the region. All children deserve to learn well, with enthusiastic subject specialist teachers.
Teaching is a challenging, exciting and rewarding career with a high level of job satisfaction. It is a great privilege, as well as a great responsibility, to be able to influence and shape the progress of children and young people.
Our PGCE courses are very popular and the standard of applicants is high.
As a trainee teacher, you’ll complete a minimum of 120 days in school on placement practice. This will take place in at least two contrasting schools, in blocks of no less than six weeks, and during this time you’ll be expected to demonstrate effective progress in your own practice and have a positive impact on pupil progress over time.
You’ll have a Senior Mentor and a Subject Mentor who will guide you through school policy and invite you to observe lessons in your subject and across the school when you first arrive. Your teaching load will start with leading lesson activities under the guidance of your Subject Mentor and gradually increase as you become more confident.
The module areas you will study are as follows.
- Theories underpinning pedagogical approaches
- Planning and implementing appropriate teaching strategies and classroom management
- Subject studies
- Current educational policy and practice
- Evaluation of learner needs and the educational impact of their teaching
- Professional skills and attributes, including keeping children safe
- The use of evidence-based practice
- Feedback and assessment of teaching against the English Teachers’ Standards, supported by a university tutor and school based mentor.
The module areas are listed above, however the final module titles are subject to final approval.
The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we will inform you.
Study time
During the 12 weeks of university-based time, you will study the teaching of your main subject in relation to the above components. This includes consideration of a range of learning and teaching styles and resources, including the use of appropriate information and communications technology (ICT), and preparation in all aspects of the National Curriculum including assessment for learning.
You will also participate in sessions in mixed subject groups where cross-curricular issues are covered, such as: safeguarding, pupils’ learning, managing behaviour for learning, innovative models of curriculum organisation,diversity and equality, the broader professional role and research underpinning decisions and policy in the field of education.
On this course, you will be encouraged to investigate ways in which you can help young people to learn. You will analyse the dynamics of what happens when students talk together about an issue that concerns them and how they use talk to advance their own thinking . Furthermore, you will investigate strategies to scaffold this happening in your classroom. How best to monitor and assess the learning that takes place and identify targets to support your students’ development will be important areas for discussion.
You will be asked to read and to understand, analyse and evaluate a wide ranges of texts. If you are sitting in a corner reading the latest novel by a writer of teenage fiction, or an anthology of poetry or lost to the world in a text from the 19th century, you will be working, doing what you are required to do.
You will spend the majority of your time in schools where you will need to be creative, enthusiastic and ready to seize the initiative in the many opportunities that will come your way.
There will be lots of people at the University and in your placement schools who will be only too ready to work alongside you and to support your progress throughout the course.
Careers
Careers / Further study
PGCE courses include 60 credits assessed at master’s level.
As a trainee teacher, you will be joining a modern and well-regarded programme to train to teach across the 11-16 age range and gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Entry
Entry requirements
Applicants normally have:
- An undergraduate degree, or a recognised equivalent qualification, with at least 50% in a subject related to what you want to teach. This is typically 2:2 or higher but we will look at all applications against the demands of the course.
- GCSE grade C/4 or above in English Language and Mathematics, or equivalent. We do not accept Level 2 Key Skills, Functional Skills or Certificates in Adult Numeracy and Literacy as alternatives to GCSEs.
Our PGCE courses include a high level of placement based learning and working with children. We would encourage all applicants to get as much relevant experience of working or volunteering with children to help prepare them for this crucial element of their course.
Selection process
Applicants who meet the entry criteria will be invited to an interview day with course tutors, consisting of a group discussion and interview.
English Language Requirement
All International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 6.0 in each component
FREE VISA SERVICE
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Expenses (GBP)
14250
Application Fee
0
Program expenses
University & General Expenses
REQUIREMENTS
80
accommodation
The UWE helps the international and UK students to find the best accommodation in the UK, and the students can choose the best option according to the price, distance, space, and other significant factors among the on-campus or off-campus accommodation in Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucester, or Newport, moreover, the students can use the university-managed accommodation (application opens on 10 June 2022, can create an account on the accommodation portal from 21 March 2022) or the private accommodation (if there is not enough place on the university-managed accommodation, can use shared rooms with your friends and classmates) during their educational period at this university, overall, the accommodation options are student village (£6,776.01 – £6,939.81), Wallscourt Park (£5,916.83 – £8,373.83), Glenside (£4,911.19 – £5,349.71), The Hollies (£5,296.82 – £7,894.69), Marketgate (£7,127.88 – £8,446.00), and so on.
After Graduation
Most the international students desire to work while studying in the UK to pay for their study and living expenses in this country and gain more business and living skills and experience, however, the international students must refer to their visas to find out whether they are allowed to work in the UK or not, overall, the students who hold a tire four visa can have a part-time job while studying in the UK for up to 10 or 20 hours per week, on the other hand, if the students’ visas say (no work or work prohibited), they cannot look for a job in this country and must simply focus on their studies, moreover, their careers must not be self-employed, sports coach, entertainer, full-time job, dentist, or doctors.