Why choose Exeter for your Secondary PGCE
Our outstanding Secondary PGCE programme is an 11-16 QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) course with post-16 enhancement. In effect, this means that whilst you must meet the standards for QTS within the 11-16 age range, you can also have additional experience of post-16.
All coursework is designed to provide engaging and varied opportunities for you to develop the necessary knowledge, understanding and skills to achieve QTS.
Our PGCE programme offers you the opportunity to develop your understanding of the opportunities and demands of leadership roles within schools and consider planning your career path. You will also have the opportunity to reflect on your own leadership in the classroom and how these skills can support pupil learning. In addition to lecture and optional seminar input, you may elect to undertake a school-based leadership task in your final placement.
Specialisms:
- Secondary with English
- Secondary with History
- Secondary Mathematics
- Secondary Modern Foreign Languages
- Secondary Physical Education
- Secondary Religious Education
- Secondary Science (Biology)
- Secondary Science (Chemistry)
- Secondary Science (Physics)
- Secondary Science (Engineers Teach Physics)
- Secondary Science (Biology and Psychology)
I really enjoyed the taught part of the course at the university. It was great to be a student again, to meet lots of other lovely people who shared my love of teaching and to enjoy a university social life after being in a full-time job for so long!
The subject and pedagogy sessions at the university were fun and interesting, although I kept having to remind myself that I wasn’t just there to enjoy being taught by great teachers, but also to reflect on how we were being taught so that we could try out some of the techniques and activities for ourselves once we were in our school placements.
Joseph
PGCE Secondary Biology
