University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

PGCE Secondary

Areas focused upon in interview

Professional Attributes
This includes high expectations and commitment to realising and raising pupil potential; professional behaviour; facility for collaboration, reflection and innovation.

Professional Knowledge and Understanding
This includes subject knowledge as defined with your degree/academic qualification, but also the curriculum context of the subject – i.e. what and how it is taught in schools.

Professional skills in relation to teaching and learning
This includes your reflections from your own observation/experience of teaching/learning.  All applicants are expected to have had some experience/observation in a secondary school.

 

You will be assessed upon the following elements:

  • Subject knowledge per se - The essential knowledge and understanding needed in order to teach a subject effectively
  • Pedagogy: subject theory and practice - An understanding of the teaching skills and strategies needed to teach all pupils effectively
  • Pupils' development - An understanding of how learning is linked to pupils' development and their social, religious, etnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and contexts
  • Attitudes - Positive attitudes to pupils' learning that underpin subject knowledge, skills and understanding

(For more information, go to www.tda.gov.uk )

Literacy Assessment

In order to assess their command of

  • written Standard English and reading
  • spoken Standard English

all candidates undertake a literacy assessment during the interview as follows:

  • Applicants are asked to read a short article from a national newspaper on an educational topic and respond to this in writing
  • Applicants are given a pupil’s written response and asked to identify any errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar

Programme specific information and documents:

 

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