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Secondary Teaching Leading to Qualified Teacher Status
Kingston University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 3,770 - ≈ € 12,280 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Kingston University
Kingston's PGCE course in Secondary Teaching offers an intensive and well-supported year of training that will prepare you to teach children at Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and in the sixth form.
What will you study?
This is a very practical programme, and 24 weeks of the 36-week course are based in school. You will have assessed practice placements in at least two different schools, so you'll get an opportunity to experience varied types of school. Mentors within the schools and/or your university tutors will offer support and guidance during the placements. Your university studies will focus on the teaching of your specialist subject, together with professional skills (eg planning work for pupils) that will help you become an effective teacher.
Contents
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.
Specialist pathways
* Mathematics Specialist Pathway
The Mathematics Specialist Pathway has a very practical focus. It will enable you to teach:
* mathematics up to Key Stage 3
* mathematics to GCSE; and
* some aspects of A-level mathematics.
The course also aims to develop your professional skills to help you gain employment in a secondary school and continue with your professional development. It will provide you with a rigorous training in all aspects of being a secondary school teacher.
Two-thirds of your time is spent working in schools. The year is divided into:
* two weeks' school-based work at the start of the course;
* a learning block where you spend three days per week at the University and two days per week in school looking at the teaching of your specialist subject. The main emphasis is on planning work for pupils, planning for good discipline/control and developing your skills as a teacher;
* a six-week block spent full-time in the school; after which
* the pattern is repeated at a second school.
For more information, please see the Specialist pathways section.
* Modern Languages Specialist Pathway
The Modern Languages Specialist Pathway prepares you to teach French, German or Spanish at Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and in the sixth form. The course also allows you to develop a second teaching language.
We avoid a rigid syllabus so that we can respond to individual trainee and group needs. However, throughout the course we will:
* provide lectures and handouts with examples of classroom activities in all three languages;
* support your existing subject knowledge and offer opportunities to extend it;
* encourage you to analyse your classroom experiences and relate theory to practice; and
* help you build up collections of resources, forming a good foundation for your future professional work.
Two-thirds of your time is spent working in schools. The year is divided into:
* two weeks' school-based work at the start of the course;
* a learning block where you spend three days per week at the University and two days per week in school looking at the teaching of your specialist subject. The main emphasis is on planning work for pupils, planning for good discipline/control and developing your skills as a teacher;
* a six-week block spent full-time in the school; after which
* the pattern is repeated at a second school.
* Science Specialist Pathway
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Typical offer:
* A 2:2 honours degree relevant to your subject specialism (at least 50% of the degree content needs to be relevant to your chosen specialism).
* GCSE (A-C): English Language and Mathematics.
* Proficiency in French, Spanish or German if applying for the modern languages specialism. We particularly welcome those who are able to offer a second potential teaching language. However, we give careful consideration to all applications and, very occasionally, accept applicants for the modern languages specialism with only one language.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
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