10th June 2017
* Keither Parker – Director of Postgraduate Initial teacher Education.
email: [email protected]
* Ann Jones – Primary PGCE Course Lead University-Centred.
email: [email protected]
* David Scott - Primary PGCE Course Lead School-Centred.
email: [email protected]
* Liz Newson – PGCE School Coordinator
email: [email protected]
* Amanda Cartridge – PGCE School Coordinator
email: [email protected]
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything
new.
Student teachers, all staff and external partners at York St John
University share a common commitment to individual and
collective professional practice led by values and principles.
All are committed to their own professional development to
produce and encourage outstanding levels of achievement,
both within partnership and university context. York St John
student teachers and staff are committed to equality of
opportunity, overarching principles of inclusion and diversity
and actively promote the intellectual, emotional, social and
spiritual development of all participants through their
engagement with teaching.
PGCE Website
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9.30am
Welcome and programme introduction
10.30am
Break
Student Finance – Student Services
Admissions – certificate check
Sign up for subject knowledge workshops
11.00am
Student Services
11.30am
Subject knowledge taster workshops A
12.00 - 1.00
Lunch
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1.00 - 1.30pm
Subject knowledge taster workshop B
1.30 - 2.00pm
Organising your Experiential Placements
2.00 -2.30pm
Living proof: insights from this year's and past students
2.30 - 3.00pm
Opportunities for international placements
General questions
*Sign up for both subject knowledge
taster workshops:
*Maths
*Grammar
*Phonics
*Certificate check
*Support with student finance
* Most of you will have
taken the subject
knowledge audits on
Moodle.
* If you have not done this,
please make it a priority
* Support is available on
each of the subject
knowledge areas.
* Please use the summer
period to revise areas you
are unsure of.
UNIVERSITY-CENTRED PGCE
SCHOOL-CENTRED PGCE
Start date:
Start date:
Monday 4th September 2017
Thursday 7th September
2017
Expected completion dates
Full-time Friday 29th June
2018
Expected completion dates
Friday 14th July 2018
Part-time university-centred:
June 2019
You may be expected to extend this time if you have not met the
Teachers’ Standards by then.
You will need an EYFS and a Key Stage 1
placement.
Assessed Placement 1:
Introductory phase
4 weeks
Nursery or Reception
Key Stage 1
Assessed Placement 2:
Developmental phase
6 weeks
Key Stage 1
Assessed Placement 3:
8 weeks
Nursery or Reception
You will need a Lower Key Stage 2 and an Upper Key
Stage 2 placement.
Assessed Placement 1:
Introductory phase
4 weeks
Year 5 or Year 6
Year 3 or Year 4
Assessed Placement 2:
Developmental phase
6 weeks
Year 5 or Year 6
Assessed Placement 3:
Consolidation phase
8 weeks
Year 3 or Year 4
You will need one placement in EYFS and one placement in
KS1. You may have one placement in KS2.
Nursery or Reception
Key Stage 1
Assessed Placement 1:
Introductory phase
6 weeks
Assessed Placement 2:
Developmental phase
6 weeks
Assessed Placement 3:
10 weeks
Key Stage 1
Nursery or Reception
You will need a Lower Key Stage 2 and an Upper Key
Stage 2 placement. You may have one placement in KS1.
Year 3 or Year 4
Year 5 or Year 6
Assessed Placement 1:
Introductory phase
6 weeks
Assessed Placement 2:
Developmental phase
6 weeks
Assessed Placement 3:
Consolidation phase
10 weeks
Year 5 or Year 6
Year 3 or Year 4
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Professional Studies 1:
Understanding Learning and Teaching and School Placement
Assessed School Experience 1 & 2
Professional Studies 2:
The Emerging Professional and School Placement
Assessed School Experience 3
Early Years and Primary Curriculum:
Subject specialism (university-centred only), enrichment days
• Enquiry-based learning
• Practical workshops
• Seminars
• Taught input from tutors and school partners
• Independent study and reading
• Moodle as an essential resource
• Integration of school-based learning with university-based learning
• In-depth coverage of English, mathematics and science
• Computing and PE focus
• An introduction to the foundation subjects including RE
and PSHE
• An opportunity to specialise in a subject area (Maths,
English*, Science, PE or Primary Languages). You must
hold a degree or ‘A’ level in that subject (*English
Language only)
• Enrichment days on phonics, creative maths, diversity
• International placement opportunity
Learning
Teaching
Learning theory
The environment
Psychology
Role of the adult
Sense of self
Planning
Individual needs
Assessment
Barriers to learning
Managing
behaviour
Teacher Identity
Statutory
responsibilities
Safeguarding
Applying your jobs
and interviews
Preparing for your
NQT year
Researcher
Identity
Educational
research
Literature review
Methodologies
Data and ethics
Presenting skills
Choosing an area to research
Curriculum
Pedagogical aspect
Schools as communities
Investigating your own practice
An analysis of one school’s approach to teaching handwriting.
A case study of intervention strategies to support children in
mathematics.
How can science be taught as a cross-curricular topic?
How can I develop the use of effective questioning techniques?
Engaging parents in the classroom: one school’s strategy.
Your task before the start of your programme:
Read around educational research.
Refer to the core texts.
Begin to focus your area of interest. Make notes.
Develop your critical reading skills by accessing journal articles.
Ask questions. Make notes.
To help you prepare for your programme, you
are required to take the following online
training courses before you begin your training
in September.
• Channel (Prevent Strategy) Online Training
• Female Genital Mutilation Online Training
Links to these course can be found from the
PGCE website
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