PGCE Secondary Computer Science with ICT

A personalised process of continuous assessment ensures that learning is appropriate and effective. Assessment takes account of both the programme experience and the school or setting and includes researching developing practice through assignment tasks. Support is provided to develop a rigorous evidence-based account of your educational journey.

Assessment in all of the PGCE programmes is designed to be progressive and to assist you in the provision of evidence to support your achievement against the Standards for QTS.

PGCE programmes are assessed in University, school or other settings. The evidence base includes:

· Formally assessed assignments

· Professional dialogue in progress reviews

· The Professional Learning and Practice portfolio

· School phase reports and observations

· Professional development activities

· Subject knowledge tests and tasks (where appropriate)

Course assessment

There is an emphasis throughout the programme on subject application and practical workshops where teaching strategies and appropriate contexts and techniques are modelled and discussed. You’ll investigate a range of teaching and learning strategies and materials designed for your subject at secondary level and develop your own for use in schools. At all times we are critically assessing approaches and considering how theory can be transformed into practice. There is also a significant level of participation in terms of presentations, peer support, microteaching episodes and projects in partnership with schools. You’ll be taught by a range of practitioners; both university based lecturers and other professionals currently working in local schools. Many will have passed through the course themselves in former years.