Teaching and learning
Participation in the PGCE course is an active process. You'll learn through a combination of the following activities:
- talks by guest speakers, including experts from our partnership schools
- seminars
- watching videos from experts locally, regionally and nationally
- taking part in discussions in seminars at university and in school
- workshops in subject groups and cross-curricular groups
- school-based activities
- classroom management activities
- lesson and lesson sequence planning activities
- lectures, face-to-face and asynchronous
- presentations from peers and from local teachers
- individual mentoring
- self-study using carefully collated materials and tasks
- access to resource rooms on campus
All of the above covers the minimum trainee entitlement of the national Core Content Framework, and in addition explores further themes through exposure to national and international expertise in educational themes from our department researchers and colleagues.
You'll find much of the course centres on practical activities that emphasise team work, group discussion and that require Beginning Teachers to share the responsibility for their learning. This is deliberate and reflects the way in which you will operate as a team member in a department, pastoral team or management team in a school.
Throughout the course, Beginning Teachers are given guidance and support by mentors and Professional Tutors in school as well as from their university tutors.
Contact us
education-pgce-admissions@york.ac.uk
01904 323576