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PGCE Technology and Design with Engineering and Manufacturing Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE)

Ulster University

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  • Qualification

    PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education

  • Location

    Coleraine Campus.

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    21-SEP-26

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

This course will prepare you to teach Technology & Design to the full range of pupils in post primary schools. It is offered at the Coleraine campus with additional subject workshops in partnership with the Education Authority, normally in their purpose-built facilities in the Portadown area. The overall aim of our PGCE programme at Ulster is to support this aim and to foster the development of pedagogical competences in the following three areas: - Professional Values and Practice Professional Knowledge and Understanding and Professional Skills and Application. To achieve these aims the PGCE post-primary programme at Ulster University prepares student teachers to be competent in the following: - the ability to plan, teach and assess worthwhile learning activities in their subject area(s) in post-primary schools in Northern Ireland for the 11-18 age group - the acquisition of the knowledge, understanding and skills that are essential for the promotion of learning among pupils - to assume responsibility for developing as competent reflective practitioners, able to monitor and evaluate their teaching performance - to realise a commitment to on-going personal and professional development in pursuit of sustained pupil learning and school improvement. Student teachers on the PGCE will evidence their competence through achieving the following objectives by demonstrating: a critical understanding of the Northern Ireland Curriculum and of National Curriculum requirements a knowledge of their subject and its contribution to the area of study and to the ''Big Picture'' of the curriculum at Key Stages 3 & 4 with its objectives of: a) developing the young person as an individual b) developing the young person as a contributor to society and c) developing the young person as a contributor to the economy and the environment. The successful completion of the PGCE also requires the student to: recognise and take account of those factors which influence curriculum planning in a particular school context understand how children learn and appreciate the social, moral, psychological and cultural factors which affect educational attainment plan, teach and evaluate lessons, units and schemes of work organise and manage classes effectively use a range of teaching and learning methodologies supported by resources for pupils of all ability levels, including those with special educational needs recognise the need for continuity, progression and differentiation in pupils' learning assess for learning including the recording and reporting pupil achievement adopt an assessment of learning mindset develop pupils' language and numeracy skills through the teaching of their subject promote skills of problem solving, decision making, presentation, teamwork, leadership and independent learning develop pupils' personal and interpersonal skills promote fairness and equality of opportunity build and sustain good relationships with both pupils and staff work co-operatively with colleagues and other student teachers and contribute to school wide activities develop skills and confidence in Information Communications Technology (ICT) and emerging technologies for both personal and professional use.

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Ulster University

Ulster University

Ulster University

  • University League Table

    54th

  • Campus address

    Belfast Campus., 2-24 York Street, Belfast, Belfast, BT15 1AP, United Kingdom

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