PGCE Pre-Service (Lifelong Learning)

This full-time PGCE prepares graduates to teach in the lifelong learning sector. It opens with a module on evidence-based teaching and assessment, examining how people learn and how assessment enables achievement, and applying research evidence to designing strategies and materials. Students explore positive approaches to managing group and individual behaviour and an inclusive approach to teaching. Transferable skills are introduced, along with the ways learners develop English, mathematics and digital skills, and a subject specialist strand builds subject knowledge. Assessment rests on practical teaching and the design of a learning resource, so trainees build evidence of their own practice as they go. Full-time study gives trainees a concentrated route into the profession, and the course develops both subject knowledge and everyday classroom practice.