Postgraduate Certificate in Education - Secondary - Computing

This module enables student teachers to develop and consolidate their subject knowledge and knowledge of the curriculum in their specialism, computing.

This module will introduce students to research-informed, practical approaches to important aspects of professional knowledge. These include behaviour management; safeguarding; assessment for learning; adaptive teaching; literacy; numeracy; special educational needs; inclusion and pastoral care. Students will learn in cross-curricular groups and a number of sessions will be led by expert practitioners in local schools.

The module should be read in conjunction with the Teaching Experience module to allow student teachers to practise their emerging pedagogical skills and to meet current professional standards, currently the Teachers’ Standards (2012).

Throughout the module, students will be encouraged to think critically about aspects of learning and pedagogy in order to help them to become confident, autonomous professionals.

The module aims to support students to develop as teachers by:

-enabling them to meet all areas of the Department for Education's Core Content Framework;

-auditing their existing knowledge and skills in the light of Social Sciences education requirements and developing strategies for ongoing subject knowledge enhancement;

-developed a critical awareness of current debates about the content, value and purpose of Social Sciences within the curriculum and linked these to classroom practice;

-begun to develop an understanding of how pupils learn and make progress in Social Sciences

-enhanced their understanding and professional practice through research, reading, analysis and reflection;

-reflected on their achievements and identified areas for on-going professional development.