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PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
St John's Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
As a Religious Education teacher, you’ll inspire students to explore the world’s diverse religions, worldviews and belief systems. You’ll promote open-mindedness through developing their critical thinking skills and cultural awareness, teach effective communication across cultures and prepare your students to thrive in our global society. The breadth of RE allows you to combine skills and knowledge from different areas. At Worcester, you can specialise in Religious Education or follow our Religious Education with Citizenship route.Once offered a place, we will work with you to develop your subject knowledge offering 1:1 online tutorials, pre-course subject knowledge enhancement days, recommended reading and advice on funding to support your training.With support from our highly experienced subject specialists and visiting speakers, you’ll discover the theories and practice behind effective teaching and learning and gain hands-on experience through your placement at a local school.Beyond the classroom, you’ll have opportunities to work with local RE teachers to share best practice and discuss current developments and have the chance to visit different places of worship to further enhance your subject knowledge and provide inspiration for how you could teach your students outside the classroom.Through our professional studies programme, your tutors will model effective teaching and classroom management strategies to support you with your teaching development; whilst our enhancement activities will provide the chance to tailor the specific aspect of RE which most interests you. Examples include Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), PSHE & Citizenship and English as an Additional Language (EAL).On completion of the course, you'll be recommended for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). QTS is awarded by the Teaching Regulation Agency in England.
This module focuses on school experience and evidence to demonstrate meeting the Teachers’ Standards by the end of the course. Completion of a series of tasks will allow for reflections on learning and teaching including professional values. The module makes links between taught university and school sessions and the time spent on placement, making connections between theories of learning and the practice of teaching. A key focus will be on what makes good teaching and learning and how pupils make progress over a period of time. Periodic reviewing to critically evaluate progress against the targeted aspects of the Initial teacher training early career framework 2024, allows for the identification of further professional development through training and into the Early Career Teacher phase.
You’ll spend 120 days in at least two different schools, ensuring you experience a range classes and school environments. This classroom experience gives you the opportunity to prepare and rehearse the foundational teaching skills such as explanations and modelling, talk for learning, and assessment for impact. There will also be additional school visit days where you can explore practical strategies for the classroom, with opportunities to practice, rehearse, and implement in school.
This module develops your understanding of current subject specific educational theory in relation to learning and teaching. You will deconstruct a learning and teaching sequence by critically evaluating, consolidating, extending, and applying subject knowledge delivery in the classroom, starting with the impact on learning. The module develops critical reflection on subject knowledge, assessment, and inclusion when planning for effective learning. You will grow into a reflective, self-evaluating practitioner who can demonstrate originality and recognise key factors which underpin good subject teaching when dealing with complex issues.
This module involves the critical appraisal of personal professional practice to develop evidence informed teaching based on an area of interest or personal challenge. It involves a comparative analysis and evaluation of factors and underlying themes through the integration and synthesis of current literature, research, and evidence on the selected topic. You will use an evidence-informed approach to evaluate the actual and potential impact on teaching practice considering the role of evidence informed teaching in the classroom.
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