PGCE Secondary Welsh with QTS, PGCE, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

the United Kingdom

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About PGCE Secondary Welsh with QTS, PGCE - at University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Key Features

High quality new and well established staff with recent and relevant experience of secondary school provision.
We are geographically well placed to serve the whole of South Wales.
Our programme is the largest provider of Secondary PGCE training in Wales.
Long-established Welsh and English medium partnership schools and very experienced school /college mentors.
Excellent subject and ICT resources available for students.
Post-course CPD opportunities.
We have the best employment rate throughout Wales.
Training in a wide variety of teaching techniques with opportunities to try ideas out in the partner schools.
The course provides you with training to teach Welsh up to the A and AS examinations.

The fundamental aims of the PGCE Welsh programme are to develop the skills of a trainee Welsh teacher who is able to reflect on practice gained through teaching experience in school; who can analyse that experience in the light of discussion with mentors and others and also in the light of their reading; and evaluate their practice effectively to demonstrate gradual improvement in the standards of their own teaching and pupils learning.

Modules

Module 01: Principles of Teaching, Learning and Pedagogy in Secondary Education (Level 6 - English only. Post-graduate or Professional Graduate Cert.Ed. pathway available)
Module 02: Skills and learning across the Curriculum (Level 6 - Welsh or English. Post-graduate or Professional Graduate Cert.Ed. pathway available)
Module 03: Investigating Issues in Secondary Education (Level 6 and 7 - Welsh or English. Post-graduate or Professional Graduate Cert.Ed. pathway available)
Module 04: Curriculum Development and Enhancement (Level 6 - Professional Graduate Cert.Ed. and Level 7 - Post-graduate Cert.Ed.. Both English only)
Module 05: Professional Teaching Experience (Level 6 - English or Welsh/bilingual. Post-graduate or Professional Graduate Cert.Ed. pathway available)

Professional Accreditations

PGCE with QTS

Course Tutor(s)

Rhian Angharad Rees

Assessment

Module 01 Principles of teaching, learning and pedagogy in secondary education

Coursework: 8000 words
Literature reviews/ Reflective presentation / Evaluative commentary

Module 02 Skills across the curriculum

Coursework - 4000 words
Conference style paper

Module 03a or 03 Investigating issues in secondary education

Coursework : 4000 words equivalent
An investigation using problem based learning & critical evaluation.

Module 04a or 04 Curriculum development and enhancement

Coursework : 4000 words equivalent
A critical analysis of a teaching intervention

Professional Teaching Experience

Placement [100%]
Achievement of QTS evidenced by PDP and formative and summative assessments by mentors, senior mentors and tutors. Moderated by University internal and external examiners

Career Opportunities

The South West Wales Centre of Teacher Education has excellent graduate employment rates with 99% of graduates going into employment or further study (DLHE 14/15).

Many school and college departments, both locally and nationally, are staffed with several of our teachers and many of our trainees have gone on to forge successful teaching careers at strategic, professional and management levels at home and abroad.

Our PGCE graduates usually remain in close touch with us as they make their careers in the teaching profession and they often become Subject Mentors on the programme. This creates a very strong, sustainable professional network of teachers which is a rich source of continuing professional development.

Recently our PGCE Welsh graduates have gone on to work as Secondary teachers in many independent and state schools in Wales, England and abroad including (but not limited) to: Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera School (Neath), Fitzalan High School (Cardiff), Porthcawl Comprehensive School (Bridgend) and Dyffryn Comprehensive School (Port Talbot).

Further Information

If you are called to an interview you would need to undertake 30 minute Welsh Literacy, English Literacy and a Numeracy Test (30 minutes per test). You might also be asked to undertake: a presentation related to your subject area, group discussion, an extended writing exercise, a formal interview with a subject tutor and school mentor.

You would need to demonstrate a passion and enthusiasm for your subject.

Related Courses

PGCE Primary with QTS

Entry requirements

Entry Criteria

For the September 2015 entry you will need a B grade at GCSE in Welsh, English and Mathematics.

If you hold a C grade in GCSE English Language or Mathematics and are successful in other aspects of the selection process you will be given the opportunity to sit the equivalency test. If you are successful and you accept your place to study with us then you can start your programme as planned. Attendance at the workshops prior to the test is a compulsory part of the equivalency testing programme.

For further information please contact PGCE Secondary admin: 01792 482111, [email protected]

Good A level qualifications, particularly in Welsh, are generally expected. The normal minimum entry requirement to the programme is a second class honours degree in Welsh or in a strongly connected subject. Details of particular subject entry requirements can be obtained by contacting the tutors named below.

If accepted onto our course, you will be required to obtain a clear enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service - formerly known as CRB, Criminal Records Bureau) clearance check as soon as possible.

If you were called to interview, it would be advantageous if you gained some work experience at a secondary school in order that you begin to realise what it means to be a classroom teacher and understand the demands that would face you in your chosen career.

The PGCE Secondary programme has a well-established link with the CANTEACH programme that supports and facilitates Canadian graduates' application to the PGCE Secondary programme.

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