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Opleiding: PGCE Secondary Design and Technology
Learning purpose
In May 2008, the secondary teacher training provision at Middlesex was awarded a grade 1 in training. This supplements the grade 1 for management and quality assurance awarded in 2007. This is an outstanding result for such a diverse provider of teacher training and ensures growth in numbers in the years to come.
The aim of the design and technology subject studies modules are to enhance your subject knowledge and your practical capability through a series of integrated workshops. Content focuses on designing and making products with resistant materials, food and edible ingredients, technological systems and control and design methods with graphics and modelling. Information and communication technology (ICT) and computer aided design (CAD)permeates this programme. Workshop safety training is integrated within the materials and construction workshops and leads to a nationally recognised certification.
The aim of the programme is to prepare students for the teaching profession. The programme will
- Enable students to develop their knowledge and understanding of pupils and their learning;
- Equip students with the pedagogic knowledge, understanding and skills to teach effectively across the 11-16, age range of the secondary school;
- Enable students to develop their knowledge and understanding of the secondary curriculum for their subject;
- Enable students to understand, critically evaluate and respond to the needs of children in multicultural, multilingual and multifaith settings and schools in an international, urban environment;
- Train students to be able to meet the teaching standards in the stated age range of the secondary school;
- Enable students to demonstrate critical understanding of current research and advanced scholarship in the area of secondary education and to demonstrate expertise in highly specialised professional skills in a context where they will need to exercise initiative and take personal responsibility for decision making in complex and unpredictable situations.
Programme
Subject studies The aim of the design and technology subject studies modules are to enhance your subject knowledge and your practical capability through a series of integrated workshops. Content focuses on designing and making products with resistant materials, food and edible ingredients, technological systems and control and design methods with graphics and modelling.
School-based studies You are required to spend two-thirds (120 days) of the programme in school. We have developed a partnership scheme with 150 participating secondary schools situated throughout the North London boroughs, Essex and Hertfordshire. In each school you will be assigned a personal mentor who is a subject teacher. You will experience two consecutive secondary school placements. The objective of the school experience is to develop your generic and subject teaching skills to at least the level of competence expected of a newly qualified teacher.
Professional studies This is a programme of lectures and seminars focusing on contemporary issues in education and professional development. This part of the programme takes place partly at the University and partly at school by lectures, workshops and seminars to mixed subject groups.
The programme is based at Trent Park and in schools. You will find this an intensive 36-week, five-days-a-week programme, during which you will also have directed work to carry out during the Christmas and Easter holiday.
Subject studies are assessed by a portfolio of coursework and a school-based special study (a teaching resource). Progressive developments of teaching skills are recorded using criteria referenced assessment proforma. Professional studies are assessed by a range of written tasks. Observation of the students, teaching and evaluative discussions with course tutors and school based mentors and teachers.
- Design and Technology Education (60 Credits) - Compulsory
- The aim of the design and technology subject studies modules are to enhance your subject knowledge and your practical capability through a series of integrated workshops. Content focuses on designing and making products with resistant materials, food and edible ingredients, technological systems and control and design methods with graphics and modelling. Information communication technology ICT and Computer Aided Design CAD permeates the programme. Workshop safety training is integrated within the materials and construction workshops and leads to nationally recognised certification.
- School Experience 1 (20 Credits) - Compulsory
- This module aims to prepare students for their first School Experience by supporting their preparation and enabling them to collaborate with each other, their subject mentors, and co-ordinating mentors so that they can address the standards specified by the statutory teaching standards, while undertaking on School Experience 1. The school based element of the module is 46 days.
- School Experience 2 (40 Credits) - Compulsory
This module aims to provide an extended, individual school experience across 11-16, 11-18 or 14-19 where students build upon their experience on school experience 1. They build up to a 60% teaching load across the placement, which is 74 days in total, across a 6 month period, so that they can address the standards specified by the the statutory teaching standards.
Entry Requirements
You need at least a 2.2 Bachelors hons degree in a subject relevant to your chosen subject area. You must also have a GCSE grade C or above in English and Maths. Equivalency tests for GCSE English and Maths will only be provided in exceptional circumstances. It is also recommended that you undertake at least two weeks work experience within a Secondary Design and Technology classroom before applying. We do not accept direct applications for our PGCE programmes. Please apply for this course via the Graduate Teacher Training registry website, www.gttr.ac.uk
Professional perspective and employment market
Secondary Teacher
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Placements
Work placements are integral to the PGCE Secondary Design and Technology degree. Our course is well-known for having a strong and committed partnership with local schools, whose mentors and class teachers train with the University. As a student, you will have the opportunity for rich and varied placements in the multilingual, multicultural and multifaith schools.
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