PGCE Secondary English (29NC) (Taught)

Course overview

Teaching is an extremely rewarding and challenging career. Our course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher.

We aim to nurture teachers who are passionate about the development of their own and their pupils' learning.

Why study this course with us?

The course intends to produce secondary English teachers who are reflective practitioners, who have a love of the subject, and will be:

enthusiastic and confident in the classroom
pedagogically skilful and adaptable
specialists in the teaching of English
aware of how young people learn English
knowledgeable across all areas of English – literature and language
able to see their subject in the context of the whole curriculum, and understand how the skills of English can transfer across all subjects
competent in a number of areas that cross secondary school curriculum boundaries, and able to see English in the wider context - contributing to pupils' personal, social, moral, spiritual and cultural development
able to work effectively as part of a team
able to critically examine issues raised within the study of the subject
prepared for teaching English in the 21st Century
The course is designed to ensure you are confident in all basic national curriculum requirements.

The government is planning changes to the NQT transition period from one year to two years. This will be introduced nationally from September 2021, but will operate in some areas of the country (e.g. the North East, Greater Manchester and South and West Yorkshire) from September 2020. Following the achievement of QTS, therefore, all of you entering into a job as an NQT from September 2021, or in the aforementioned regions from 2020, will be entitled to a 2-year package of on-going training and support as an NQT. These entitlements are enshrined in the recently published Early Career Framework and the government has promised additional funding and mentoring support for new entrants to the profession who are entitled to this 2-year NQT programme. As a university committed to the on-going training and professional development of new teachers, we are aligning our new Level 7 Masters programmes to the Early Career Framework and would be keen to continue to support schools and NQTs in the next phases of their careers.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Secondary