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Opleiding: PGCE Secondary Music

Learning purpose

The Middlesex PGCE SecondaryMusic course equips you to inspire pupils through the use of engaging interactive workshops, lectures and structured debates. You receive personal attention through regular tutor visits to school placements and individual tutorials. Schools are carefully selected to suit individuals and expose them to imaginative and thought provoking teaching and learning strategies.

 

The course aims to prepare you for the teaching profession. It will

• Enable you to develop knowledge and understanding of pupils and their learning
• Develop your expertise in highly specialised professional skills in a context where you'll need to exercise initiative and take personal responsibility for decision making in complex and unpredictable situations
• Equip you with the pedagogic knowledge, understanding and skills to teach effectively across the 11-16 age range
• Develop your knowledge and understanding of the SecondaryMusic curriculum
• Enable you to understand, critically evaluate and respond to the needs of children in multicultural, multilingual and multifaith settings and schools in an international, urban environment.

 

Five workshop-seminar programmes seek to develop and broaden your previous experience

• Practice and Content in Music Education
• Music Technology in the Music Curriculum
• Stylistic Diversity in the Music Curriculum
• Process and Progression in Music Education
• Music and the Whole Curriculum

The focus is on developing effective practice in the classroom within the context of the National Curriculum. Content includes the role of the electronic keyboard and computers and MIDI in music education. Your subject knowledge is broadened to include jazz and pop and world music. You will study the place of curriculum music in relation to other arts and the broader society and instrumental teaching.

 

 

Programme

Subject studies A structured programme of subject teaching methodology and application workshops and seminars.

 

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.

 

 

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 Music classroom before applying. We do not accept direct applications for our PGCE programmes.

 

Professional perspective and employment market

Secondary Music Teacher

 

Our Careers Service offers you a range of support both while you're studying with us - and after you've graduated.

 

Placements

Work placements are integral to the PGCE Secondary Music 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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