The 14-19 PGCE in Creative and Media is a nine month innovative and intensive programme preparing graduates for the demands of teaching the 14-19 age range in the Secondary and Lifelong Learning sectors. You will be able to specialise in a particular pathway within the Creative and Media curriculum area where options are taken from the creative practices associated with
Art and Design OR Media and Film.

You will be awarded a PGCE and recommended for Qualified Teacher Status, enabling you to teach in schools. The programme is also designed to provide a strong foundation for working in the Lifelong Learning sector, especially FE.

Organised in partnership with Schools and Further Education colleges you spend 24 out of the 36 weeks teaching.

Content

Module 1 - Professional Placement
Teaching experiences include opportunities to teach across Key Stage 3, GCSE, A-level and BTEC National Diploma Programmes and elements within the 14-19 Creative and Media Diploma.

You will teach concurrently in two placements. These are in a Secondary School and a Further Education institute. During your placements you will work with different tutors and an assigned curriculum mentor, who will provide you with opportunities and guidance to try out particular skills in a safe environment, generate, plan, resource and deliver your own schemes of work/projects and evaluate performance.

After Easter there are opportunities for you to undertake research and teaching in an additional placement in a range of learning and teaching contexts of your choosing other than schools and colleges.

Module 2 - Professional Studies
These sessions aim to inform you about aspects of professional practice which are central to your pedagogical work, whatever your subject, including pastoral care, behaviour management, meeting the needs of individual learners and groups, and learner assessment.

Module 3 - Curriculum Studies in Creative and Media
These involve work in two related strands: practical concept-based workshops and lectures/seminars, which together enable you to develop a clear personal rationale, and practical strategies for teaching your chosen strand - Art and Design OR Media and Film within Creative and Media in the Secondary and Lifelong Learning sectors.  In the practical workshops, you examine and explore key concepts that underpin the various curricula and specifications for your chosen strand within Creative and Media.

These sessions enable you to relate your experience and expertise to the needs of students in the 14-19 age range by inquiring into and challenging your own assumptions and patterns of thinking and working.  You read widely and share your views, findings and experiences through group seminars, and peer teaching and presentations.

Awards

The completion of the course can lead to two possible awards.  Those who gain 120 credits at HE level 3, or 100 at Level 3 and 20 at Level 4, are awarded a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education, and recommendation for QTS.  Those who gain 40 credits at Level 4 as well as 80 credits at Level 3, are awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and a recommendation for QTS.  Furthermore, after successfully completing the programme and a period of professional formation in a Lifelong Learning Sector context, graduates achieve QTLS (Qualified Teacher Learning & Skills) status.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Your University learning experiences will be a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical workshops and study visits.  These prepare you for your professional placements and help you to reflect on professional issues, and your developmental needs.  During the time on your Professional Placements, you will learn through a combination of observation, individual, group and whole group teaching, discussions with mentors, attendance at school/college training events and professional meetings.

Assessment

Your development is formatively and summatively assessed through a combination of professional placement and course work.

The School and FE Professional Placements are assessed by a combination of University, School and FE tutors, through formal observations.  Taught modules are assessed through a reflective journal, practical work, presentations and written assignments related to the module learning outcomes (including one professional investigation each for Professional Studies and Curriculum Studies).  The professional investigations are submitted for assessment at HE Level 3 or Level 4.

Formative assessment is seen as crucial to supporting you in your development as a reflective practitioner and helping you to progress towards meeting the standards for QTS and QTLS.

What qualifications do I need?

You will hold an appropriate degree and have had, for Art and Design, at least three years experience of working in an area related to the industry e.g as a freelance, designer, or artist.  We welcome industry experience for Media and Film but this is not essential.

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