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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-24

Key information
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Qualification type

PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education

Subject areas

Teaching In Primary Schools

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Help shape the future of education by training as a Primary school teacher with a specialism in Physical Education.

At Worcester, we offer opportunity for you to train as a PGCE Primary teacher with a specialism in Physical Education. The course is led by experienced academic staff who are research active and at the forefront of developments being carried out in schools in the area of physical education teaching, ensuring that your learning is shaped by those helping to shape education itself.

Key features

  • Worcester is one of the country's leading providers of teaching training, with an excellent reputation in this area
  • Personalised support that continues beyond your study and in to the early stages of your career, helping you to identify your development needs and excel as a teacher
  • With 60 credits at Masters level and a strong international reputation, a PGCE can take you anywhere, from Masters study to a job on the other side of the world
  • Our Pedagogy & Professional Practice element explores wider issues of education and society, enhancing your prospects as a future leader in the profession
  • Take part in collaborative research with schools to develop practice and enhance children's learning of and love for Physical Education

You will take part in a course supported by innovative content, which aims to develop, enhance and deepen your subject knowledge of teaching and learning across the whole of the National Curriculum, whilst developing a specialism in Physical Education. The course enables you to explore and develop specialist skills to teach Physical Education across the primary key phase, as well as develop as a Primary teacher for all subjects.

PE Specific

Throughout the course, you will be supported in developing a range of teaching strategies and approaches to learning. You will carefully consider the language and vocabulary related to Physical Education concepts and procedures, including use of language to target a deeper physical education understanding and encouraging cross- curricular learning through use of specific vocabulary.

Stages of learning will be identified along with common movement errors, and you will develop an awareness of how to intervene and address these to improve the quality of movement across the primary phase. You will consider how physical education can be applied in other areas of the primary curriculum and ways of planning to provide a balanced learning experience that incorporates exploration, acquisition, consolidation and application of knowledge and skills.

Where could it take you?

Upon successful completion of the PGCE course, you take with you a Career Entry Profile to start the process of your continuing professional development as a teacher.

Modules

This module looks at understanding how to support children to learn. The themes in this module explore Teachers? Standards 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. It will focus on understanding how children develop and learn, subject specific pedagogies, adapting teaching to meet different needs of learners and the role of assessment. You will cover all of the core and foundation subjects in this module. There are five distinct strands.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£9,250

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£17,400

Entry requirements

Academic requirements: Honours degree normally (2:2) or higher from a United Kingdom higher education institution or equivalent qualification, in a relevant subject area. Applicants with a 3rd class degree will be considered on an individual basis. All entrants have achieved a standard equivalent to a grade 4 (formerly grade C) in the GCSE examinations in English Language and mathematics (or equivalent) (for 2022 entry, applicants must have these qualifications by the start of the course). Alternatively, we offer equivalency test if you don’t have the required GCSE grade to apply for our courses. Trainees who begin courses before providing evidence of the required GCSE standard (or equivalent) will not be eligible for financial incentives, such as bursaries or grants until they achieve the required standard.

University information

Located in a historic cathedral city in the West Midlands and only 45 minutes from Birmingham, the University of Worcester is home to 10,000 students and 1,000 staff. It offers a broad choice of postgraduate degree courses alongside state-of-the-art research and study facilities. The university is spread across four sites. St John’s, City and Severn campuses are all located within Worcester and are a short walk from each other, meaning...more

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