PGCE Secondary Education with Modern Foreign LanguagesR9X1

Course Overview

Duration: 1 year full-time.

Give your secondary education career a solid start with our specialist PGCE. On the Secondary Education with Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) PGCE, you’ll build on your existing qualification to become the kind of teacher who makes a real difference in pupils’ lives.

On completion of this course, you’ll be fully prepared to support pupils aged from 11 to 16 (key stages three and four) in their secondary education.

The course comprises four main areas which are general professional studies, curriculum studies (with MFL-specific methodology), placements in lead and second schools (with a minimum of 150 days over three terms) and academic assignments.

This structure has been carefully developed to ensure you acquire all the skills you need to become a truly excellent secondary MFL teacher. You’ll explore a range of topics to give you a deep understanding of what teachers need to do on a daily basis in order to be effective in their role.

We’re committed to enhancing your natural passion for teaching, developing your subject knowledge, and helping you apply new-found knowledge and skills to lessons. To help you make a strong start funded (optional) MFL Subject Knowledge Enhancement Courses are available too.

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Modules

1st Year

Becoming a teacher: Pedagogy & Philosophies of Learning*
Inclusion in the Secondary Classroom: Appreciating Diversity*
Understanding the Learner: A Personalised Approach to Learning & Assessment*
Teaching Placement*

Entry Requirements & Fees

Typical offer

Specific Course Entry Requirements

Degree - Minimum of 2:1 (or equivalent) although a 2.2 will be considered.
GCSE Grade C or above for English and Mathematics (Please note that Level 2 Key Skills in Application of Numbers and Communication or Certificates in Adult Literacy or Numeracy, are not sufficient to meet the entry requirements to a PGCE programme).
Have passed the literacy/numeracy skills tests.
Fluent in written and spoken English (C1 or C2 level) if non-native speaker of English.
Experience of working with young people.

General Entry Requirements

In addition to the specific course entry requirements, all PGCE applicants will need to meet the following:

Recent secondary school classroom observation experience.
To be able to clearly and accurately communicate both spoken and written English.
Candidates must take part in individual and group interviews with representatives from schools as well as University tutors.

Subject Knowledge

You need degree level in the first foreign language you will train to teach.
You will need at least CEFR level B1 in the second foreign language you will train to teach.

Suitability Clearance

You will be required to:

Provide a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service), Enhanced Disclosure, related to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Joint Circular ‘Protection of Children’.
Meet the Secretary of State’s requirements for physical and mental fitness to teach as detailed in ‘Fit to Teach’ by completing an on-line medical questionnaire.

Career Opportunities

Plymouth Marjon University is widely renowned for producing excellent teachers. We have superb links with our partnership schools throughout the South West, London and overseas. You will find many of our graduates teaching in a variety of schools across the country.

The quality of our graduates is well recognised both locally and nationally and, as such, a very high proportion of graduates gain immediate employment or enrol on Masters programmes to further their studies. Our employment data for the last three years shows MFL trainee teachers are employed above the region and sector.

ALUMNI OF PGCE Secondary Education with Modern Foreign Languages

Course Leader

Combined, our PGCE course leaders possess decades of educational experience and countless specialist research areas. From start to finish, your tutors will provide you with enthusiastic support, encouragement and feedback in order to develop you into a truly outstanding teacher.

OUR COURSE LECTURERS

More Information

See our PGCE and SD Secondary Presentation

Funding

Information on funding from the National College of Teaching and Leadership.
Government-funded bursaries are available to PGCE students subject to the classification of your degree.

OFSTED 2014

A key strength of the Partnership is ‘how well the partnership prepares trainees to make them employable, leading to all securing, and remaining in, teaching posts’.
‘Successful completion and employment rates are consistently high and well above national and regional averages’.
A Key strength of the programme identified was ‘trainees’ passion for their subject and the teaching of it, and their relentless focus on developing their subject knowledge and how to apply it to their lessons’