BSc (Hons) Chemistry with Secondary Education (QTS)

This degree will give you both chemistry knowledge at degree level and the professional qualification QTS and these will allow you to take up a teaching post within a secondary school.

This course will enable you to move up and across the management structure to gain responsibility for:

a particular subject as head of department, faculty or curriculum
a particular age group as head of year or key stage coordinator
a particular area such as special education needs or pastoral care (ie personal guidance)
Ultimately, you could progress within a school to a senior management position such as a deputy or assistant head and, of course, headteacher - at which point you will have overall responsibility for the management of a school and the education its pupils.

Following successful completion of this award you will be awarded an honours degree.

Typical entry requirements: 112 UCAS points

A Levels - grades BBC including Chemistry at grade C and others preferably in Science subjects and Mathematics (excluding A Level General Studies and A Level Critical Thinking)
BTEC L3 Extended Diploma - grades DMM
BTEC L3 Diploma - grades D*D*
OCR Cambridge L3 Technical Extended Diploma - grades DMM

Over the three year course, you undertake six semesters of University-based learning at both Wolverhampton and Walsall Campuses, and you spend at least 120 days divided between a range of different schools at different times during the three years.
Your University tutor is available to assist you throughout your training, and every effort is made to ensure you have high-quality tuition and school placements, where you can learn from experienced teachers and lecturers.
All course modules provide examples of good practice in teaching which you will reflect upon as you develop your own teaching style
You will study chemistry beyond school level so you have an appreciation of the subject beyond that which you would normally teach at GCSE level. This means you would have the subject knowledge to teach A Level Chemistry. You will however expected to participate actively in your own learning and professional development of other aspects of the science curriculum.
Teaching on the course reflects a variety of methodologies that will prepare you for life in the classroom including practical work for both demonstration and individual investigation, teacher-led debates, pupil-led exploration, peer-group discovery and the provision of individual targets.
You will be assessed in a variety of ways including examinations, written assignments. laboratory work, classroom based investigations and other school-based activities, and appraisals of practical teaching skills.