Secondary PGCE
The Wildern Partnership SCITT acting as a Lead Partner for i2i Teaching Partnership offers an intelligently designed teacher training programme working in collaboration with a diverse range of partnership schools across Hampshire as well as colleges and universities.
The PGCE Programme is delivered by Bath Spa University and will develop Trainees’ ability to become truly reflective practitioners. It will encourage them to engage with educational literature, research and policy in a critical manner. It is important that all those embarking on teaching develop this professional behaviour so that they firstly understand the important role that engaging with educational theory plays in their continuous professional development, but also to give them the tools by which they can discern the plethora of research, policy and literature that is available to practitioners, and draw on that which is most effective.
The PGCE Programme is delivered via a combination of face to face launch lectures in your area plus in online question and answer sessions, and online tutorials. You do not have to go to Bath until your graduation.
The PGCE is assessed via 3 key assignments which complement the assignments required for QTS.
Provider Led Training
Our centre based training consists of a carefully sequenced and interleaved curriculum. Training takes place principally at our bespoke adult learning centre at Wildern School or one of our partnership secondary schools. Subject Days are led by subject experts from across our partnership schools and the wider education community. The secondary teaching training curriculum is meticulously yet flexibly planned and sequenced to provide trainees with a secure grounding to enable them to move forward and develop a secure understanding of the specific topics they will teach, with the support of their mentor in their training year and flourish independently as Early Career Teachers (ECTs) and beyond.
School based training – Main and second placements:
Trainees’ school based training enables them to develop the knowledge acquired through centre-based training by embedding it into their practice. Here they will work with expert and experienced colleagues in their own department who will further exemplify the theory through
We offer a school-based, collaborative, high quality secondary teacher training programme which is adapted to your individual needs.
The full time one year Secondary training programme commences in September. Successful completion of your training with us will result in QTS, along with a Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) at Masters level. Bath Spa University, who make the award of the PGCE, are involved in the development and moderation of the PGCE assignments and the Quality Assurance of our programme.
Provider Led Training
Our centre based training consists of a carefully sequenced and interleaved curriculum. Training takes place principally at our bespoke adult learning centre at Wildern School or one of our partnership secondary schools. Subject Days are led by subject experts from across our partnership schools and the wider education community. The secondary teaching training curriculum is meticulously yet flexibly planned and sequenced to provide trainees with a secure grounding to enable them to move forward and develop a secure understanding of the specific topics they will teach, with the support of their mentor in their training year and flourish independently as ECTs and beyond.
School based training – Main and second placements:
Trainees’ school based training enables them to develop the knowledge acquired through centre-based training by embedding it into their practice. Here they will work with expert and experienced colleagues in their own department who will further exemplify the theory through targeted observations, deconstruction of practice, modelling/exposition, live coaching and instructional coaching. With the help of their Mentors and department colleagues, Trainees will have the opportunity to deliberately practise the theory within their own subject context so that they can explore how the theory is specifically applied to their own practice.
Trainees will spend the majority of their time in their main placement school where they will be part of the school community from the very start of the academic year. Apart from their subject specific Mentor and department colleagues Trainees will also be supported by other key school colleagues, such as members of the school’s pastoral team (including a co-Tutor), the SEN Co-ordinator, the DSL and members of the senior leadership team such as the ITT Professional Mentor, who is responsible for supporting Trainee’s professional development during their school placement.
Trainees also undertake a second school placement between January and February half term. The second placement school is usually of a different socio-economic make up to the lead school.