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PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
St John's Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
Our Secondary Post Graduate Certificate Education (PGCE) empowers you to motivate others to explore and understand the world. Expert tutors will challenge and support you to achieve the very highest levels of subject knowledge, pedagogy, and academic achievement. We offer a dynamic partnership with the placement schools in the region, and our employability statistics are a credit to the highly skilled, passionate teachers we produce. Whichever specialist subject you choose, you will be taught in small seminar groups and will discover academic and classroom strategies.Inspire the future generation of learners by studying a PGCE in Secondary education at Worcester or through one of our regional hubs.The University of Worcester has a rich legacy of high-quality teacher education. If you’re passionate about your subject, our Secondary PGCE course will give you the skills to share that passion with the next generation.We are proud that our Secondary PGCE was rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in March 2023. Ofsted identified that:‘Trainees benefit from an exceptional learning experience at the University of Worcester. This experience instils in them a deep-rooted commitment to making a difference to the lives of the children and young adults in the communities they serve.’
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.
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.
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