| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-19 | - |
Program Overview
Encouraging equality
Our programme will give you an in-depth understanding of inclusive practice, equality and diversity to prepare you for a aspiring career in teaching. You'll experience placements in different schools and also have an opportunity to work in an Alternative Education Setting.
This course leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). This course equips you to teach primary aged pupils, with a focus on the 5-11 age phase (Key Stage 1 and 2), or 3-7 age phase (Early Years and Key Stage 1), through school-based training, lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials. You'll gain 60 Master's level credits and be awarded with a Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
LSBU has a particular focus on social justice and equality that is well matched to the needs of schools in urban and multicultural areas. We encourage creativity, reflective pedagogy and sensitivity to educational issues.
Why a PGCE at LSBU?
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Our PGCE tutors are qualified teachers and expert practitioners.
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Experience three placements in a range of school settings.
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You'll be allocated a Professional Adviser to act as your mentor during your training.
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Ranked 3rd among London competitors for Student Satisfaction in Education (Complete University Guide 2022)
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LSBU has extensive links with schools and alternative educational setting across London.
Program Outline
Level 6 Modules
The Core Curriculum modules focus on the subject knowledge and pedagogy you will need to teach the core subjects; English, Mathematics and Science in Primary schools’
This module underpins the entire PGCE course; it covers all aspects of the professional requirements of being a teacher alongside developing your pedagogical understanding. It covers topics such as how children learn, planning, assessment and pupil progress, classroom management, teaching strategies, working with additional adults and supporting children with particular needs.
As part of the Foundation Subjects module and Computing sessions you will also develop subject knowledge and pedagogy in the foundation subjects: Art and Design, Computing, Design and Technology, Modern Foreign Languages, Geography, History, Music, Physical Education and Religious Education.
Over the course of the programme you will undertake three school placements.The first placement takes place between October and January. This has a focus on early reading (phonics) and early maths (place value) in order to provide students with an understanding of the basis of learning and curriculum progression. Over the course of this placement students build upto whole class teaching. In March, students undertake the Alternative Education Setting placement (see below).The final placement lasts from March until July – and is where the whole course comes together in practice. Students applying their learning from across the course towards full-time teaching and to demonstrate the achievement of the Teachers’ Standards.
In term two you will arrange your own two week placement following your interests in an Alternative Education Setting. This placement is designed to give you a wider view of education and enable you to develop explicit skills that you will be able to transfer to mainstream practice. For example you may choose to work in a Special Educational Needs setting, a Pupil Referral Unit, or an Early Years setting.
M Level Modules
This Masters level module will allow you to reflect on key issues such as equality, diversity and inclusion in an educational context. You will learn from leading academics and professionals from around the world about topics that affect education such as social class, race and diversity, gender, sexual orientation, asylum seekers and refugee families, inclusive practice, special educational needs and disability, looked after children, digital citizenship and children with English as an additional language. For the assessment of the this module you will undertake a small piece of classroom research based on one of these themes.
This module discusses and explores how to enable learners with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) to achieve in their learning. If you select this module your Alternative Education Setting placement will be in a Special Needs school.
Additional requirements
Applicants for this course must also meet the following additional entry requirements:
All entrants to ITE courses are required to undergo both an enhanced criminal record check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), formerly known as the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), and an Occupational Health check (OH). LSBU pays for both of these checks. Once you accept an offer from us, we will provide you with guidance on how to apply for your DBS check, and your OH check will be completed once you have started your course.
An applicant with a criminal record is not automatically prevented from becoming a teacher. For more information on the DBS and their enhanced checks call them on 0870 90 90 811 or visit the Gov.uk website. You will also need to be able show the certificates from your relevant GCSEs and your degree (if awarded) before enrolment – statements or letters are not applicable, so if you do not have the original certificates this must be sought from the awarding body. This can take some time and so must be done in good time before the course starts
