The Course
The successful completion of the course leads to the award of QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) and a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate of Education) from the Open University.
The course is 38 weeks long and students are allocated a Base School. They have a class mentor who acts as a role model and provides structured mentoring to develop classroom skills, knowledge and understanding as the students progress through the course.
There are lectures, seminars and workshops which provide an introduction to issues relating to professional matters, such as child development, theories of learning, classroom management and control, lesson planning, being a teacher, and teaching strategies, assessment, recording and reporting, cross curricula themes and dimensions related to the National Curriculum.
Most emphasis is on English, Mathematics and Science but all other National Curriculum subjects and Religious Education are considered.
Generally three days each week are spent in school with the workshops, etc., taking place on the other two days. There is a weekly tutorial with the mentor and there are expectations that certain written assignments are completed.
So what’s different about us? We are a group of schools who believe that the best way to learn to be a teacher is to be there. The headteachers of the participating schools are responsible for the course and its management. It is designed and delivered by the schools themselves in collaboration with other teacher trainers. There are always opportunities for theory and practice links through practical classroom experience during a whole school year. Schools themselves believe that their involvement in SCITT provides a training programme that is relevant to the demands of the modern classroom and this enhances their professionalism which can only lead to an improvement in the quality of teaching and learning.
Entry Qualifications
You do need to satisfy the TTA minimum entry qualifications for post graduate study. In addition for our course you need :