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PGCE (Secondary) - Mathematics – (Grad.Cert.)
Goldsmiths, University of London
Department of Educational Studies
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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You need to be well-organised, a good manager of your own time, and able to set priorities and meet deadlines. You need to be resilient, tolerant and understanding of the attitudes of today´s teenagers, and with a commitment to young people as well as your subject. Experience of working with teenagers, such as running a youth group, could be an advantage. You should visit a secondary school before interview.
Contents
In the Autumn term the emphasis is on getting to know the different parts of the school mathematics curriculum and possible teaching approaches. You review your mathematical experience, identify any gaps and begin to do something about them. We look at the possibilities of using Information Technology in teaching mathematics, and explore different approaches to assessing pupils. An important feature of the term is developing your skills in posing questions, and this is followed through in the first assignment which is built round pupils working investigatively.
Early in the term you are based mainly in College, but with at least one day a week in school. After half term you spend most of your time in school, with one day a week back in College. Following the Christmas break, you spend almost all your time in a second school, as you develop your skills in planning, teaching and managing whole classes, taking responsibility for them over a sustained period of time. This includes aspects of assessing, recording and reporting on pupils´ attainment, and catering for a range of achievement levels. You learn about `whole-school´ issues as well as mathematics teaching, and are expected to contribute to the pastoral life of the school. You do an assessed project on a whole-school or cross-curricular theme.
Later mathematics sessions at College focus on broadening your knowledge of resources for teaching, longer term planning, and the post-16 curriculum, though you may already have done some sixth form teaching if it was available in your first school placement. Your second assignment is a portfolio of tasks relating your practice to reading and research.
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The extent of mathematical understanding you bring to the programme is important. You should have a degree in mathematics or a related subject from a university in the United Kingdom. If your degree is in more than one subject, you should give a complete breakdown of the course units you studied within your degree when you submit your application to the GTTR: we will generally have to be satisfied that at least half of the content of your degree was in your proposed main teaching subject area. Engineers can generally offer enough mathematics, as can actuaries and physicists. Those with qualifications in business, accounting or computing need to be able to show a substantial amount of mathematics in their degree. It is also important that you are reasonably literate, and have some knowledge and experience of UK Secondary schools.
As well as British qualifications, we accept many equivalent overseas qualifications: if you would like to know whether your qualifications meet our requirements, please contact the Admissions Office.
You must have GCSE Grade C or above in English Language and Mathematics (or recognised equivalents). Please note that English Language proficiency exams such as TOEFL, IELTS or the Cambridge First or Advanced Certificates are not acceptable.
If you do not have - or are not currently studying for - a GCSE in English or Mathematics, you may be eligible to sit the internal College tests; we advise you to apply early. We regret that these tests may not be used to overlook recent failure in GCSE examinations, and that you can only take the tests once. You cannot take the Goldsmiths English test if you are applying to study English, or the Goldsmiths Mathematics test if you are applying to study Mathematics.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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