Secondary PGCE - Anticipating Practice and Pre-Course Tasks to complete

Anticipating Practice Tasks

Below is a document containing tasks for you to complete during the Anticipating Practice two weeks in September (11-22 September).  

These tasks should be well presented as they will contribute to the evidence required for the award of your PGCE and will form the basis of group and individual discussions with your tutor during the first weeks of the taught course.  So please keep your completed tasks document safe as you will need to add it to your electronic portfolio of evidence during the first few weeks of the course.  

Secondary PGCE Anticipating Practice Tasks 2023-24
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Fundamental Skills Audits

All trainees need to demonstrate a certain level of English and mathematics by the end of the course before QTS can be awarded.  This is a DfE requirement.  To start this process, please download the following two audit documents and spend as much time as you can developing and improving your English and mathematics skills before the course starts.   

Fundamental Skills English Audit
Fundamental Skills Maths Audit‌‌

Again, please keep these completed documents safe as your tutor will discuss the outcomes of your audits with you in the first weeks of the taught course and you will be asked to upload them to your electronic portfolio.  There will be plenty of opportunities during the course for you to work on any areas you identify as needing improvement.

Subject Leaders also have their own additional tasks, reading lists and general information to impart relating to their individual subject.  Please click on the relevant link below to access the subject-specific pre-course information relating to your subject:

‌Secondary English Information and Tasks

Secondary History Information and Tasks
Secondary History - Progression in History under the 2014 National Curriculum

Secondary Mathematics Information and Tasks
Secondary Mathematics - Subject Knowledge Audit

Secondary MFL Information and Tasks
Secondary MFL - Eurydice explanation of the English education system
‌Secondary MFL - History of Education in England part 1
Secondary MFL - History of Education in England part 2
Secondary MFL - GCSE Subject Level Conditions for MFL (Nov 2020)

Secondary PE Information and Tasks
Secondary PE - Appendix A    Secondary PE - Appendix B    Secondary PE - Appendix C
Secondary PE - Appendix D    Secondary PE - Appendix E  ‌‌

Secondary Science Information and Tasks
Secondary Science - Reading 1 (Lemke)
Secondary Science - Reading 2 (Willingham)
Secondary Science - Reading 3 (Archer)

Many trainees ask for advice on useful reading prior to beginning the course. Your main subject tutor will advise you on subject-related reading. The following books have been suggested by tutors and represent a range of views on educational issues. The list includes some more accessible texts, while others are quite ‘heavyweight’. All are relevant to the course that you are about to follow. Select from these titles, depending on your interests. 

Alexander, R. (2020) A Dialogic Teaching Companion. Oxford: Routledge.

Capel, S., and Leask, M. (Eds). (2019) Learning to Teach in the Secondary School: A companion to school experience 8th Edition. London: Routledge

Kyriacou, C (2018) Essential Teaching Skills (5^th Edition). Oxford: OUP.

Pollard, A. (2014) Reflective Teaching. 4th Edition. London: Bloomsbury.

Wilson, E. (2017) School-based Research: A Guide for Education Students (3rd Edition). London: Sage.