Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (Post-16 Education and Training)(Part Time)

This Level 6 course is appropriate for the post-16 education and training sector. An honours degree (2:2) is required for entry to the programme. This course will help you to develop your teaching skills, reflect on current ideas about education and training, and creatively explore the professional opportunities open to you. You will gain a professional qualification in further, higher or adult education and training.

It is offered to those currently in teaching as a part-time (two year) course. You should be in paid employment as a trainer or teacher, and you will be required to complete a minimum of 100 hours of relevant current group teaching or over two years of the course.

The course combines lectures, seminars and work experience to provide you with a conceptual and practical understanding of how to influence the quality of teaching, learning and assessment across multiple contexts in the post-16 sector. You will learn alongside other teaching professionals and acquire adult learning theory which will be applied to your own practice.

You will be able to train to teach in any subject area, including Mathematics, English or SEN.

This course is validated by The Open University.

Benefits/ skills you will develop

The course will develop teachers who can:

• Apply key and current ideas about teaching, learning and assessment in the Education and Training Sector to practice
• Plan, prepare and deliver effective and creative learning sessions for post-14 learners
• Assess students and use assessment to improve their learning

Assessment

A range of assessment strategies will be used. These may include the following:

• Teaching Practitioner File
• Teaching observation
• Reflective writing
• E-presentation
• Evaluative Report
• Academic poster
• Research study

What’s next

Students completing these programmes can progress on to Qualified Teacher Learning and
Skills (QTLS) status, or onto degree level study.

Students completing the PGCE may wish to progress and study a Masters degree.

There is also the potential to progress into paid employment in the placement organisation, secondary school or Further Education sectors.