PGCE Design and Technology (two year route)
GTTR code WXX1Attendance
Full-time
Full-time – two years
At a glance
About this course
If you’d like to teach design and technology in secondary schools, but need to brush up on your skills before you start your teacher-training, we can help.
This two year route helps you develop the skills you need to be a successful teacher of pupils of all abilities, strengthening both your design, technology and manufacturing skills as well as developing your teaching skills.
This course is ideal for graduates who have a degree in a related field, but require the time and facilities to develop subject specific knowledge and skills before going into the classroom.
It's a stimulating combination of creative, practical and technical skills that are so useful that some of our most outstanding PGCE graduates are the ones who did this course.
You may be eligible for a tax-free bursary.
An outstanding national reputation
Sheffield Hallam is the UK’s largest provider of design and technology education, which makes it a great place to come for teacher-training. As a result, we enjoy a national reputation for excellence in design and technology.
A remarkable place to learn
One of the exciting things about this course is that it’s not all based in our education department but in our Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences. That means you are based right at the heart of our workshops, studios and stores, surrounded by other students and staff from a range of creative backgrounds and disciplines.
Your route to qualification
The first year of the course is focused on you developing your subject knowledge capability before going into the classroom. Modules include • health and safety • design and communication • manufacturing • systems and control.
You have access to specialist facilities including workshops with a full range of machine tools, CAD/CAM equipment, computer suites, design-teaching studios and specialist technology rooms.
In the second year of the course you focus on developing the skills you need to be a successful teacher.
Teaching placements
In year two you complete two contrasting placements in 11–16 or 11–18. This allows you to experience the full progression from Key Stages 3 to 5. In total you spend around 120 days on placement.
While on placement you benefit from excellent support and mentoring from a university-trained mentor. We have placement links with over 600 schools and other institutions, and some of our students secure teaching jobs in one of their placement schools.
Associated careers
We have an excellent graduate employment record. Over 85 per cent of our PGCE graduates are teaching or in further study within six months of graduating.
Course content
Year one modules
Modules include • health and safety • design and communication studies • design and manufacturing studies • systems and control • understanding design and technology in context • design and technology in secondary schools • professional standards
Year two modules
• teaching and learning in design and technology • developing professional practice in design and technology • current issues in design and technology education • general professional studies • teaching placements in schools
Assessment
• research projects • individual and group work • presentations and reports • preparing teaching materials and plans • teaching practice • practical design and make exercises
Entry requirements
All applicants need GCSE mathematics and English language at grade C or above. We will consider applicants who are in the process of obtaining the relevant GCSEs.
For the PGCE you need,
• a degree (2:2 or above) in a field related to but not entirely focused on design and technology, such as architecture, graphic design, engineering, manufacturing or art and design. DfE funding and support is currently available for successful applicants who possess a 2.2 degree or above (or equivalent).
For entry in 2013 onwards there will be national pre-entry tests in literacy and numeracy.
Graduates with relevant experience, but degrees in non-related fields could be considered in exceptional circumstances.
We consider each application on its merits. Interviews are part of the selection process for this course. As you will be working with children, you will be required to complete a declaration of criminal convictions and health check forms.
We welcome applications from people seeking a career change, and we actively encourage applications from those groups under-represented in teacher education, in order to ensure that the teaching profession represents the diverse nature of contemporary UK society.
International students must also have an IELTS score of 6.5 with 5.5 in all skills.
Fees
Home and EU students
2013/14 academic year
Typically £9,000 a year
How to apply
All applications must be made through the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR). Apply on-line at www.gttr.ac.uk or phone 0871 468 0 469.