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PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
Whiteknights Campus
Full Time
Feb 2027
10 Month
Train as a history teacher on our versatile, immersive PGCE Secondary History course at the Institute of Education. You will be trained to teach children from 11 years old until their GCSE exams, and beyond this to A-level. Inspiring children to learn about history can be a very rewarding career. This course combines theory, research and practical classroom teaching to develop your skills as a teacher. You’ll attend workshops, seminars and individual sessions with experienced academic mentors. You will also gain significant practical classroom experience with children of different ages. Throughout your course, you will learn how to: teach pupils about causation, change and continuity, similarity and difference, and difficult concepts, develop pupils’ evidential thinking and chronological understanding, plan lessons, from the creation of individual activities to lessons and sequences of lessons designed to support pupils’ learning of history, make big decisions about the curriculum; for example, which period of history to teach and when to teach it. In order to achieve this, you will be supported by tutors who work closely with mentors in schools to ensure that high professional standards are maintained.
Accommodation costs will vary depending on whether you choose standard, premium or private accommodation, and how long you are staying. Prices can vary from around £160 to £350 per week.
