PGCE Secondary - Social Science

University of Leicester

All of our PGCE courses are made up of both campus-based sessions - which will give you a grounding in the principles of good teaching practice - and school-based placements, giving you the chance to apply your knowledge and experience to a wide range of classroom situations. These placements will be in contrasting schools to provide you with a broad range of experience; they could be in city, suburban or rural schools, in the independent or state sector. You will be taught by academics who are leaders in their field and have years of experience themselves as teachers. We believe that teaching inspired by research both within and beyond the School of Education, and backed up with extensive teaching experience, provides excellent opportunities for our trainees to grow as teachers and reflective practitioners. Introduce you to the variety of strategies and techniques available to the teacher in the modern education system Model the above strategies and techniques in University sessions Guide you to a set of principles which will allow you to operate as effective practitioners in new and challenging situations Introduce you to wider issues which confront Social Science teachers Inform you about current developments in education which impinge upon your role as Social Science teachers