PGCE Secondary Geography (Age Phase 11-16) with QTS

Edge Hill University

Postgraduate

In Ormskirk

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    1 Year

This programme will equip you with a range of academic, professional and vocational knowledge, understanding, skills and values necessary to become a high quality and skilled teacher of Geography. You will experience professional training, delivered to the highest of standards, which immerses you in the very latest teaching and learning pedagogies.

The aim is to develop your reflective and analytical skills as well as providing practical experience in planning effective lessons and learning strategies, hands-on classroom experience, and opportunities to further your own subject knowledge. The programme is acknowledged to be at the cutting edge of new approaches to innovative geography education in the classroom as well as incorporating an excellent fieldwork experience.

If you have a degree in or featuring Geography and want to develop secondary school pupils’ practical research skills and knowledge of the world around them, this is the programme for you.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

Start date

On request

About this course

Successful completion of this programme will allow you to be recommended for QTS status and progress onto employment as a Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) at secondary school level in Geography.

Our proactive careers advisory service can help you to find job vacancies and offers in-depth advice on teacher job applications and interviews, to help you secure work.

GCSE English Language and Mathematics at Grade C or Grade 4 or above (or equivalent qualification); A first or second class Honours degree from a UK university (or equivalent qualification); Satisfactory levels of Information and Communications Technology competence; A demonstrable interest in teaching within the curriculum area. You could show this in a number of ways – time spent in schools, knowledge of the chosen curriculum area, relevant practical experience.

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Subjects

  • Teaching
  • Secondary
  • Planning
  • Secondary Geography
  • Pedagogy
  • Educational Theory
  • Geography
  • Educational Settings
  • Effective Teaching
  • Learning in Geography
  • Practice in Geography
  • Reflective Professional Practice

Course programme

You’ll start with an extensive subject knowledge and understanding audit, to identify your main strengths and weaknesses, and enable your tutor to focus on your individual development needs. During 12 weeks of study on campus, you’ll develop:

  • Knowledge of essential educational theory
  • Awareness of appropriate and innovative teaching and assessment methods, including group work, role play and simulations
  • Strategies to encourage trainees’ practical skills development, including organising outside field trips and fieldwork
  • Understanding of the curriculum
  • Ability to plan lessons effectively
  • Excellent working knowledge of the latest ICT tools and software used in schools
  • Greater subject knowledge and professional and academic skills
  • Wider awareness of your role within the teaching profession through study of professional values.

SGE4010 Developing Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy in Geography (30 credits)

SGE4011 Planning for Effective Teaching and Learning in Geography (30 credits)

SGE4012 Research and Practice in Geography (30 credits)

SRP4001 Reflective Professional Practice (30 credits)

SRP4002 Professional Practice 1 (30 credits)

SRP4003 Professional Practice 2 (30 credits)

120 academic credits are studied on the programme in total, in addition to 60 ungraded credits for the Professional Practice modules.

Additional information

International students enrolling on the programme in academic year 2017/18 are £12,500.

How will I be assessed?

A balanced combination of coursework and observed classroom experience will be assessed against academic criteria at Level 7 and the QTS Standards. Various other tasks will enable you to show your competence in ICT and other areas of Geography, including a fieldwork-based assessment. Before the end of your PGCE you will need to complete a Career Entry and Development Profile (CEDP) which acts as a useful bridge between your initial teacher training programme and your Induction Year as a Newly Qualified Teacher.

Who will be teaching me?

 The course leader has published a number of recent highly regarded texts on new approaches to Geography in the classroom. The team includes highly experienced mentors and senior examiners with the major examination boards.

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