Collaboration
We are proud to have been working in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University for many years, successfully delivering the PGCE content of our curriculum. They were always committed to bringing quality and inventiveness and providing excellent, on going support in every area to help ensure trainees had a fulfilling and successful experience. Thank you SHU!
LATEST NEWS!
We are excited to announce that from September 2025 our PGCE provision will change to the University of Derby, and look forward to our future working partnership!
UoD Tutors will join us at the Bluecoat SCITT Alliance Training Centre to deliver the PGCE content for both Primary and Secondary trainees throughout the year. This enhances our working relationship, and the mutual support of our trainees.
As well as the benefits of becoming a Bluecoat SCITT Alliance Trainee you will also benefit from the opportunities afforded to you as an UoD student.
PGCE Aims
To enable you to become a successful ECT with the ability to reflect critically on your practice and take responsibility for your own continuing professional development.
To build upon your existing skills and competencies to produce confident, effective and enthusiastic ECTs.
To enable you to meet and exceed the mandatory professional standards for beginning teachers who are ready to undertake employment as an ECT.
To build your knowledge and understanding of Education and your appreciation of the role and importance that your subject plays in the effective education of young people
To help you to support the learning and development of young people by providing a supply of well-qualified ECTs to meet both regional and national supply.
To enable you to contribute towards curriculum development and innovation in partner schools whilst on school based training.
PGCE Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the content, organisation and management of the whole school curriculum and progression in the content and delivery of your phase related curriculum in school.
Access and apply relevant academic and professional publications and research findings in relation to your subject-specialism and the wider curriculum in order to inform your effective classroom practice.
Select and reflect upon a variety of effective strategies for teaching, monitoring pupil progress, promoting equality of opportunity and catering for pupils with special educational needs.
Recognise, acknowledge and fulfil a teacher’s legal, ethical and whole-school responsibilities to children in their care and to fellow professionals, parents and carers.
Intellectual / Subject / Professional / Key Skills / covered within the Programme
Critically reflect on current literature, practice, legislation and emerging issues in order to inform your own professional practice.
Devise sustained and informed arguments relating to a variety of educational issues, supported by relevant evidence.
Select, apply and critically evaluate available methods and techniques to enhance and improve your subject knowledge and understanding in learning, teaching and assessment in Education.
Plan, implement and evaluate sequences of lessons in Education selecting and utilising an appropriate range of teaching and assessment techniques to support effective teaching and learning.
Take responsibility for your own conduct and professional development, making use of self evaluation and reflecting upon feedback to inform and develop your professional practice.
Take increasing responsibility for the learning and development of individual pupils in your care.
Achieve all the statutory professional requirements for the award of QTS communicate information and ideas clearly in a written and verbal format appropriate for different audiences and make appropriate use of ICT.
