Program Overview

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Course summary

THE OAKS

Welcome to The Ormiston and Keele School Centred Initial Teacher Training programme (OAKS). We are an Ofsted outstanding provider of secondary initial teacher training, based at Keele University. Ours is an innovative and intensive one-year course that will enable you to gain QTS certification and a Keele University PGCE academic award.

The broad aims of the main curriculum component of the programme are to:

enable you to become a highly-motivated, outstanding, effective, creative and reflective practitioner

develop your subject knowledge and teach you how to put that knowledge into practice (pedagogy) in order to thrive in the culture of our schools

promote the importance of managing workload and personal wellbeing and to prepare you for a career in teaching that will prove to be successful and rewarding

develop in you a commitment to and enthusiasm for continuing professional and personal development