PGCE Post-Compulsory Education (full-time) PGCE/Teacher Training

Through taught sessions and mentored teaching practice in the workplace you will learn about employment in the sector, how to plan lessons in your subject, how to teach, engage and assess learners, how to manage the learning environment, and how to understand and use theory and research to broaden and improve your professional knowledge and expertise in teaching.

Students undertake modules to the value of 120 credits or 135 credits (for English (including Literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages) combined route only.

The programme consists of modules to the value of 120 credits (60 at Bachelor’s level and 60 at Master’s level) or, for those on the English (with Literacy & ESOL) combined route only, 135 credits (75 at Bachelor’s level and 60 at Master’s level).

• Planning and Enabling Learning and Assessment
• Theories and Principles of Teaching and Learning
• Curriculum Design: Principles and Practice
• Professional Enquiry (generic pathways) or Wider Professional Practice and Development (English (including Literacy and/or English for Speakers of Other Languages) and Mathematics (including Numeracy) pathways
• Literacy and ESOL Learning and Teaching (English (including Literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages) pathway only

• There are no optional modules for this programme

All students on this programme will undertake a teaching practice placement and your development as a teacher will be assessed as part of the course. You will spend at least 120 hours, working with subject-specialist mentors who support you through your placement. We are fortunate to have a good choice of colleges and other providers, as well as some outstanding mentors in the field of post-compulsory teaching, with whom we work.

The programme is delivered via taught sessions, (including lectures, presentations, discussions, and classroom group tasks), and a practical teaching element based in a partner-provider organisation, usually a further education college. You are also required to read widely and to carry out written assignments in your own time. The programme is assessed through written assignments, module tasks and formal and informal observations of practical teaching skills.