Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: Full Time (1 years)
We offer our students an exceptional training experience – if you’re looking for a lifelong, challenging and exciting career, teaching may be for you.
By incorporating current trends and issues into our teaching, you will be prepared as best as possible for the classroom. As a part of our distinctive and ambitious curriculum you will understand and apply your knowledge of:
Enquiry Based Learning
Thinking Geographically & Powerful Knowledge
Fieldwork & Geographical Skills
Education for Sustainable Development
Your subject knowledge workshops will support you to expand your Geography knowledge and develop a toolkit to support effective learning which develops curiosity about the world amongst students. You will master skills to teach GIS, alongside opportunities to explore fieldwork outside the classroom. You will cover a broad range of human and physical geographical themes, such as landforms and processes, place and identity, sustainable futures, globalisation and development, weather and climate. You will consider the changing geography curriculum and contemporary issues such as decolonising the geography curriculum. You will also be encouraged to reflect on up-to-date research on the latest pedagogy, making critical evaluations and considering how it might influence your ongoing practice.
An honours degree, normally at 2.2 or above (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.
If you do not hold a 2.2 or above, we may be able to consider your application but will require additional information.
If you do not hold a degree in a relevant subject we will be able to consider your application if you have other qualifications, such as A Levels or postgraduate qualifications in the subject.
Our vision is for all of our students to become graduate ambassadors for education, leaders of learning, outstanding teachers and subject experts.
Employment rates have been consistently high for graduates and we offer you the opportunity to gain Master’s credits which count towards a full Master’s degree. This can be used to take your career in secondary education to the next level at a subsequent time.
All students undertake Master’s level modules in addition to other compulsory modules. If you pass all elements of the course at Master’s level, the award title will carry Master’s credits and QTS.
Core Modules:
School Experience One: ITaP (PGS6007)
School Experience Two: SP1 (PGS6008)
School Experience Three: SP2A and SP2B (PGS6009)
Professional Development Evidence File (PDE) (PGS7003)
Teaching, Learning and Pedagogical Theory in the Secondary Curriculum (PGS7004)
School Research Enquiry: Curriculum Design and the Use of Assessment (PGS7005)
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