Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
In conjunction with Secondary Lead School partners, the University of Chester offer Physics (11-16 with sixth form enhancement) as a subject specialism leading to the award PGCE with QTS. Teaching is an extremely rewarding and challenging career. Our course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher. We aim to nurture teachers who are passionate about the development of their own and their pupils' learning.
Physics is taught in conjunction with Lead Secondary Partners: Alliance of Leading Learning, Salop Teaching Partnership, and Wade Deacon Trust.
The course allows you to teach Secondary Science with a focus on your specialism. You will develop your subject knowledge, practical skills and pedagogy in all aspects of science at KS3, whilst also developing your expertise in your preferred discipline of Physics at KS4 and KS5 depending on your degree and experience.
Science enhanced with Physics
Applicants need a good honours degree with a significant proportion of Physics is ideal. There are a wide range of degrees which would give a suitable level of subject knowledge. However, enthusiastic scientists with a reasonable knowledge of Physics can follow a booster/enhancement course prior to starting the PGCE. These last from 10 days to six months but applications need a recommendation from a PGCE tutor. The University of Chester offers 10 day and 20 day booster courses.
Applicants will normally:
Hold or be expected to gain a minimum of a 2:2 honours degree
Have GCSE grade C/grade 4 in English and Mathematics
Once you graduate, whatever you’re PGCE route, you’ll be able to teach across the entire 3-11 age range, and in secondary schools.
The placements included in your course are designed to equip you with the practical skills and experience to support you in pursuing a career in teaching. Whilst some graduates do achieve job offers from placement schools, this is not guaranteed, and you will need to find a teaching post at the end of the course.
A qualification in teaching has the possibility of leading to:
Senior Leadership Team roles in Schools (Head Teacher, Deputy Head Teacher etc.)
Specialist roles such as a Special Educational Needs & Disability Coordinator (SENDCo)
Further study
Support Roles in Education Institutions
Higher Education roles
Core Modules:
Becoming a Teacher: the Professional Transformation
Becoming a Teacher: Meeting the Teachers' Standards
Professional Knowledge in Secondary Education
Enriching the Teacher
Building Knowledge for Teaching
Learning to teach: Developing Critical Perspectives on the Teaching of the Specialist Subject
Subject Curriculum, Pedagogy and Professional Enquiry
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