Post-16 Education and Training (PGCE) Professional Graduate Certificate in Education

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

You will undertake the following three generic modules in the first semester:

The Psychology of Teaching Learning and Assessment
Personal Development Behaviour and Welfare in Education and Training
Demonstrating Professional Knowledge and Competence

You will then undertake three specialist modules in the second semester, which may include:

Creative Teaching and Learning
Curriculum Design for Inclusive Practice
Subject Specialist Teaching

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

The assessment tasks are designed to stimulate authentic, meaningful and engaging practice in the workplace and relate, as far as possible, to authentic tasks and realistic contexts. The following summative assessment formats and methods will be used throughout the programme:

Investigative research within the workplace
Individual presentations using Web 2.0 technologies
Academic Poster
E-portfolio
Classroom observation

Opportunities for learners to participate in peer assessment and self-assessment will be given throughout the programme. Other methods of assessing learners formatively include:

peer observation
joint observation with subject-specialist mentor
debate
class questioning
case study analysis
concept maps

Entry requirements

All potential applicants are required to attend and successfully pass an interview and will need to fulfil the follow 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 UK degree (min 2:2) or equivalent.

If the degree is not in your main teaching area, you will be required to hold at least a minimum of NVQ (NQF) level 3 in your vocational area.

All places are subject to a satisfactory enhanced check for regulated activity with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), formerly known as a Criminal Records Bureau check.

What’s next

Programme Specification

Course Handbook

The Open University Regulations

Staff Profiles

Additional Teaching Bursaries

Initial Teacher Education bursaries are available in the below subjects for courses starting in the 2020 to 2021 academic year.

Mathematics – £26,000
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) – £15,000
English – £12,000

Funding will not be provided for any subjects that are not included in this list.

For a trainee to be eligible to receive a bursary from the first day of training and throughout the course, they must:

Be eligible to receive student support (to check your eligibility to receive student support please check search ‘student support’ via the Gov.uk website)
Hold minimum Level 2 qualifications in English and mathematics, and at least a Level 3 qualification in their subject of training (or have appropriate professional experience)
Be taking a qualifying pre-service ITE course in England (the course on this page is eligible for a bursary)
Not already be in possession of any teaching qualifications at Level 5 or above
Not already hold early years teacher status (EYTS), qualified teacher status (QTS) or qualified teacher learning and skills (QTLS) status
Not be simultaneously undertaking any other ITE course, training scheme or programme that leads to a Diploma in Education and Training (DET) or DET-compliant qualification
Not be undertaking paid teaching work which contributes to their training when in receipt of the bursary (e.g. teaching, tutoring, lecturing, providing training)
Applicants must also fulfil the entry requirements of the course they are applying for, details of which can be found in the course pages.

If you have any queries please contact: admissions@ucleeds.ac.uk

Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (Post-16 Education and Training)(Full Time)