For teachers/trainers working in the Lifelong Learning sector educational contexts (including 14-19 age range).
- Successful completion of a formal interview
- Level 3 qualification
- Undergraduate degree (third class)
- 50 hours teaching practice over two years
- Current DBS check
- 2 mentors - Pastoral and Academic
- Level 2 English Qualification
- L2 Numeracy or working towards
You focus on developing knowledge of your learners and explore a range of evidence-based teaching and assessment theories and strategies, in addition to your subject knowledge and subject specific pedagogy. You select an area to specialise in:
- business management and administration
- childcare and early years education
- construction and the built environment
- creative and design
- digital and computing
- engineering and manufacturing
- finance, accountancy and procurement
- hairdressing, beauty therapy and aesthetics
- health and social care
- humanities
- hospitality and catering
- legal services, law and human resources
- numeracy and literacy
- public and protective services
- sport, physical education and personal fitness
- transport and logistics
- travel and tourism
You must be employed in a further education and skills setting, and teaching should be a major part of your job role. You study a range of modules that takes you from preparing to teach through to more advanced practice skills. You also study a range of wider issues that affect the Education and Training educational sector, such as educational policy, quality assurance and your own personal and professional development needs
You are assessed by a combination of written assessments, reflective teaching journals, teaching portfolios, and by observations of your teaching practice. At the end of the first year there is a compulsory (assessed) student conference where you will be working with fellow subject specialists. This is compulsory. If you are already in employment you must make arrangements to attend. You also need to complete a Professional Discussion at the end of each year.
From Cert Ed to second year BA (Hons) Education Studies, graduate teaching programme or Master's Degree in Education.
There is an expectation that students will work in their own time to complete the necessary reading, reflection, evaluation and assessment work. It is advised that you will spend significant hours of independent study outside timetabled sessions. Please think carefully before undertaking a course of this nature as it is demanding and you will need to consider your work, family and social commitments. APL and APEL will be considered via individual application by the university.
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