Early Years (PGCE)

Postgraduate

In Liverpool

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Liverpool

  • Duration

    12 Months

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Overview
The PGCE Early Years course is particularly intensive. Students are timetabled for study across a number of areas including initial professional development covering principles of education and curriculum areas such as English, Mathematics, Science, ICT, History, Geography, Art, Music, P.E and R.E. Approximately half of the course is spent in school where the training continues and students are given opportunities to develop and extend their skills. Both within university and in school, time is built in for students to meet with their tutors on a one-to-one basis to discuss their professional development.
As part of the course, students are expected to engage, on a variety of levels, with the course content and materials. Many of the sessions require active participation in early years approaches to teaching. In contrast to this, you will be expected to have some familiarity with accessing library and online resources to support your research into different aspects of Early Years education in preparation for the completion of the assignments.
Formal assessment of the course takes place through observations of students' teaching, and their successful completion of assignments based on Learning Theories. Linking theory and practice is a key feature of the course. Students also undertake a number of curriculum and wider professional-based tasks.
School experience covers block placements in a 0-3 years setting and an Early Years foundation setting.
All Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses at Liverpool Hope offer students the opportunity to combine a programme of theory with real world experience. The initial professional development focuses what underpins the work of an effective and successful teacher, while school placements offer you the opportunity to put theory into practice.
Initial Professional Development (IPD): This part of the programme covers general aspects of becoming a teacher. It is largely lecture-based supported by...

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Liverpool (Merseyside)
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Hope Park, L16 9JD

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Experience
Liverpool Hope University is one of the country's leading providers of Initial Teacher Education. In the most recent National Student Survey 99% of our undergraduate QTS students expressed overall satisfaction with provision, placing us top among the fifty largest providers of teacher training in the UK and 16% above the national average.
The PGCE Early Years course is a postgraduate qualification aimed at high-quality graduates wishing to pursue a career in Early Years teaching. It is an intensive, demanding yet very rewarding...

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Subjects

  • Early Years
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Primary
  • GCSE Mathematics
  • University
  • Music
  • Materials
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Art

Course programme

<div id="tab2" class="tab grid_8 alpha hide-on-small" style="display: block;"> <div class="courseLinks hide-on-medium-down"> <img src="/media/liverpoolhope/styleassets/cssimages/media,975,en.gif" alt="print Icon" style="width : 24px; height : 24px; "> <span><a href="javascript:window.print()">print this page</a></span> <span class="st_sharethis_custom" st_processed="yes"><a href="#">share this course</a></span> </div> <h2>Curriculum</h2> <h3>PGCE Primary Early Years (QTS) 3-7 Age Range&nbsp;</h3> <p>Successful completion of this PGCE Early Years course is achieved through the following ways:</p> <p>Award of Postgraduate Certificate in Early Years Education - made upon successful completion of the formal subject based assignments at Masters level and successful completion of the two teaching placements. This provides a recommendation for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and 60 Masters credits.</p> <p>Award of Professional Certificate in Early Years Education - made upon successful completion of formal subject based assignments at least at Honours level but below Masters level and successful completion of two teaching placements for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).</p> <p>The PGCE Primary Early Years course is particularly intensive. Students are timetabled for study across a number of areas including initial professional development covering principles of education and Early Years education and curriculum areas such as English, Mathematics, Science, ICT, History, Geography, Art, Music, P.E and R.E. &nbsp;Approximately half of the course is spent in school where the training continues and students are given opportunities to develop and extend their skills. Both within university and in school, time is built in for students to meet with their tutors on a one-to-one basis to discuss their professional development.</p> <p>As part of the course, students are expected to engage, on a variety of levels, with the course content and materials. Many of the sessions require active participation in approaches to teaching. In contrast to this, you will be expected to have some familiarity with accessing library and online resources to support your research into different aspects of Primary and Early Years education in preparation for the completion of the assignments.</p> <p>Formal assessment of the course takes place through observations of students' teaching, and their successful completion of assignments based on Learning Theories. Linking theory and practice is a key feature of the course. Students also undertake a number of curriculum and wider professional-based tasks.</p> <p>School experience covers block placements in Primary and Foundation Stage setting.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div>

Early Years (PGCE)

Price on request