Certificate in Education (Post-14 Education and Training)

This course will further develop your teaching skills and allow you to reflect on education practices. You’ll gain a qualification that enables you to teach in further, higher or adult education and training and can choose to pursue a general qualification or specialise in English, mathematics or SEN.

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About the course

Take your teaching skills to the top with our Certificate in Education (Cert Ed). Our Cert Ed provides a conceptual and practical understanding of how to influence teaching, learning and assessment across multiple contexts in the post-14 sector. You will cover an array of learning and pedagogical models and apply them to your personal subjects.

Our modules cover multiple areas of knowledge within the post-14 sector ranging from the psychology of teaching to designing an inclusive curriculum. You will analyse national and international perspectives on learning and pedagogy. You will also research and recommend practices that you can enact in your own classrooms.

Through gaining a broad understanding of different teaching methods and practices, with the option to pursue specialist pathways, you’ll apply your newly acquired skills and experience to your professional context.

This course is validated by Leeds City College

Fee

£7,950 Full Time or £3,975 Part Time (per academic year)

Location

University Centre

Start Date

September 2021

Duration

1 year Full Time or 2 years Part Time

Course Code

77309-10 Full Time and 77308-10 Part Time

Study Mode

Full Time or Part Time

Studying during COVID-19

We will continue to follow government guidelines to ensure the safety of all our students and staff and have put in place additional safety measures, including the way we deliver your course.

For Semester 1, we plan to deliver your course through a mixture of online and face to face tuition and we will review this as Government guidelines change in response to COVID-19 developments.

Under the present guidelines, we plan to deliver your course 30% online and 70% face to face for our Personal Development Behaviour and Welfare in Education and Training, and The Psychology of Teaching Learning and Assessment modules, and 40% online and 60% face to face for our Demonstrating Professional Knowledge and Competence, and Subject Specific Teaching modules. We will timetable, where possible, so that you come into University Centre Leeds for a whole day and you will be in a bubble with your fellow students on your course.

Face to face contact will be delivered following guidelines on social distancing and increased health and safety measures. You will be made fully aware of the current measures in place and be expected to follow the guidance issued.

What you learn

Benefits/ skills you will develop

The course will develop teachers who can:

Apply key and current ideas about teaching, learning and assessment in the Education and Training Sector to practice
Plan, prepare and deliver effective and creative learning sessions for post-14 learners
Assess students and use assessment to improve their learning
Solve day-to-day practice problems through use-inspired basic research
Support learners in the use of language, literacy, numeracy and ICT in the specialist area
Implement strategies to cope with challenging behaviour in the classroom
Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, educational equity and social justice in their practice
Adopt inclusive approaches to teaching, learning and assessment which address issues of inequality

Assessment

Entry requirements

All potential applicants are required to attend and successfully pass an interview and will need to fulfil the following entry criteria to be offered a place on the programme:

Five GCSE subjects, including three at GCSE level Grade C or above (which must include English and Mathematics) and a minimum of two A level (minimum grade D) or equivalent qualifications. These can be in any subject.
A level 3 qualification in the subject you wish to teach.
All places are subject to a satisfactory enhanced check for regulated activity with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

What’s next

Programme Specification

Course Handbook

Staff Profiles