What Makes This Course So Special?
This course offers participants the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to helping future generations of students to improve their life chances. The teaching team at Newport have a huge range of experience in a variety of post-compulsory settings in the UK and overseas.
Course Intro
This course is for you if you are a graduate from a relevant subject looking to gain a nationally recognised qualification to work in further education and the broader post-compulsory sector.
On the course you will develop your skills, knowledge and understanding of successful practice in Post-compulsory Education and your confidence as a professional practitioner. You will be encouraged to take responsibility for planning and managing your professional experiences and development as the course progresses, with the guidance of your personal tutor and your subject specialist workplace mentor. You will also experience a supported placement in one of our partner colleges enabling you to develop professionally with the support of an experienced subject specialist mentor.
This course has recently been revised to ensure that they meet new Lifelong Learning UK National Standards. You are also able to achieve a PGCE specialising in teaching one of Adult Literacy, Numeracy or ESOL.
Information about the national picture can be found at http://www.lluk.org
What you study
The course content provides a basis for you to achieve the full professional status of Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills [QTLS] after the required period of professional formation working in the sector.
The structure of the course corresponds to the learning and teaching cycle, and includes identifying needs, planning for learning, managing learning, assessment and evaluation of learning. Other themes include diversity, equal opportunities, inclusive learning, curriculum and policies in Post-compulsory Education. You will be encouraged and supported in developing your skills and understanding in language, literacy, numeracy and ICT, to the professionally required level, by addressing the minimum core requirements in these areas.
This course, like all teacher education courses, develops a very wide range of skills and aptitudes that can be applied in many different settings, though the focus is on your own personal, professional development as a subject teacher in this sector.
Our trainee teachers are drawn from a wide range of subjects which reflect those currently offered in our partner further education colleges.
A programme specification is available for this course.
Where Next?
The qualification is recognised nationally as the requirement for teachers entering the post-compulsory sector, a very wide field that includes further education, adult and community education, work-based learning, the work of many voluntary organisations and community development.
Interview Required
Yes. Candidates will be expected to do a five minute presentation in which they outline how their skills and experience are relevant to working in the PcE sector.
Assessment
Assessment is very closely connected to your own work activity and learning. Assessments include reports, group tasks, small scale research projects and practical teaching observation. There are no formal written exams. Your professional practice will be assessed by a series of observations, and a professional development portfolio.
Student Soundbite
“The emphasis is on helping to gain confidence and competence by acquiring the essential skills, knowledge and understanding of good practice in teaching in the post-compulsory education sector.”