BSc (Honours) Design and Technology with Education and Qualified Teacher Status (Two Year Route)
Two years full-time
UCAS code • XWC2
This course is subject to reapproval
Location • City Campus
Subject area • Teacher education
Related subjects • Education studies
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At a glance
Train as a teacher in an exciting subject area that is popular with GCSE and A-level pupils, and where there is a shortage of suitably qualified teachers. You develop your subject knowledge over two years of study in our specialist facilities and also gain essential teaching experience in local schools in preparation for your teaching career.
Key points
• Train as a teacher in an in-demand area of teaching.
• Spend two years developing your subject knowledge of design and technology.
• Learn advanced technical skills in specialist design and technology workshops.
• Gain work experience with accredited mentors in at least two schools.
What is design and technology with education and Qualified Teacher Status?
This course develops your design capabilities, manufacturing skills and technological understanding to degree level. You also learn how to share information and learn techniques that motivate young people in the classroom. You develop your creativity, design awareness, graphic communication and presentation skills, all the time understanding how these are relevant to becoming an effective and dynamic teacher.
This course
This course is for people with some existing academic credit who want to teach design and technology in secondary schools.
If you have industrial experience, or you have completed HND type training or the first year of a relevant degree, this course provides an efficient route into teaching. It is a shortened degree, allowing you to build on your existing skills and knowledge to become a qualified design and technology teacher.
Your studies involve
• subject-based study at degree level in the areas of design, technology and manufacturing. If you have confidence in some fields but not others, you develop the skills you need to teach in all areas.
• progressive school-based experience in at least two schools where you develop the teaching skills to meet the standards for QTS.
Your studies centre around specialist workshops where you learn the technical and design skills needed to lead school classes.
Facilities you use include
• state of the art workshops with a full range of machine tools
• computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture workshop
• computer suites
• design teaching studios
• technology rooms for electronics and systems and control
We emphasise the design and technology skills and knowledge you need to teach different specialisms in the design and technology curriculum. You also develop information and communication technology (ICT) skills and strategies to incorporate technology enhanced learning (TEL) into your teaching.
You learn to think critically and creatively about the subjects you study, and by engaging with exciting and challenging projects you gain an understanding of how people learn. You complete research and reflection to support your studies and personal development.
You gain school experience in both years of the course to enable you to relate your developing design, manufacturing and technological skills to the craft of teaching. On these placements you are assigned an experienced and fully qualified school-based mentor to support your development from active observer to independent teacher. Your teaching skills are developed through working with individual pupils, small groups and whole classes.
We have strong partnerships with secondary schools over a wide area and many of our trainees find employment in our placement schools.
You have full access to all the art, design and engineering facilities including fashion and textiles and metalwork and jewellery as well as specialist electronics and systems and control facilities. This means you benefit from a broad range of facilities, expertise and equipment as well as a vibrant and creative environment.
Key areas of study
Key areas include • contemporary technologies such as rapid prototyping, CNC machinery and CAD modelling • engineering and manufacturing • school based teaching skills in our partnership design and technology departments.
We are the largest provider of secondary design and technology teachers in the country, with an extremely well established network of placement schools and design and technology departments, as well as specialist mentors who support you whilst on placement.
Find out more about BSc (Honours) Design and Technology with Education and Qualified Teacher Status (Two Year Route)
Related courses
- PGCE Engineering (Full-time)
- PGCE Secondary Design and Technology (Textiles) (Full-time)
- CPD in Design and Technology Education (Part-time)
- PGCE Secondary Design and Technology (Food Technology) (Full-time)
- PGCE Secondary Design and Technology (Full-time)
- BSc (Honours) Design and Technology with Education and Qualified Teacher Status (Three Year Route) (Full-time)
You apply for this course through UCAS.
2013/14 academic year
For 2013 entry, mandatory UK field trips are included in the course fee.
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/study/ug/fees-and-funding
2013/14 academic year
Typically £10,680 a year
2014/15 academic year
Typically £11,250 a year
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees, scholarships and bursaries see www.shu.ac.uk/international/fees
• design portfolio work and reports • presentations • professional development profile • individual and small group projects • preparing teaching materials
Students working in our design studios
Kathryn Weatherburn
Second year, BSc (Hons) Design and Technology
'If you're certain you want to be a teacher this course is a good way to fast-track into your career. It's only three years and you get qualified teacher status, so once you've finished your three years you're ready to go into a school and actually be a teacher.
'Hallam stood out with the best equipment and also the best tutors, so that's why I picked Hallam.
'All my tutors are past design and technology teachers from secondary schools. They haven't just lectured at university - they've been there and done it.
'I'm now in second year. In my first year I had quite a few modules. We had no exams whatsoever and I only wrote one essay last year so everything else was designing and making something. I made this.
'The most difficult was definitely my robot so it was great when I got that working and handed in and it was all finished, and it came out like I wanted it to in the end so that was all good.
'Sheffield Hallam have got a big thing about getting you ready for work in the real world, so on this course we do have kids coming in to the University and we teach them for a full day.
'We go out on placements and observation and the third year is going to be a full year of teaching in a school which I'm quite excited about, actually.
'Studying here is quite nice and it's not a huge course, so you know everybody, everybody gets along so you can always go and ask somebody for help. It's really good – I enjoy it.
'Sheffield, having two universities, is very student-orientated so there's lots of nightlife, two student unions to go to, lots of societies to get involved in.
'I think it was voted one of the safest nights out because it's so student-orientated, so there's always students there to help you out if you're ever in any bother. That's another thing about Sheffield that's pretty good.
'Once I get my NQT year passed then I'll be looking for a permanent school that I'll want to settle down in and maybe work up the ranks in the next five to ten years to head of department. That'd be good.
Profiles
Kathryn Weatherburn
Second year, BSc (Hons) Design and Technology
Is teaching for you?
If you are interested in pursuing a career in teaching then you may like to register for one of our taster courses. We offer a combination of mini taster sessions which are open to all and a series of more in-depth programmes targeted towards particular groups.
Mini taster sessions
Mini taster sessions are designed to give you a flavour of what teacher training involves, giving you the opportunity to meet with course leaders and have your questions answered.
We are running a series of mini taster sessions in March 2012. Find out more or register for a session.
Train to teach development programme
We offer a series of programmes, session's and one to one support to provide you with a more in-depth view of the teaching profession and advise you on your own personalised journey to initial teacher training. These are
• black, minority and ethnic individuals – one day introductory course on 6 February 2012
• men into primary – three-day course (including one day within a school environment), which runs between 12-14 June (tbc)
• secondary priority courses – for people interested in teaching subjects such as maths, physics and chemistry, with courses running between 5-7 March
We also offer small group sessions and one-to-one's for those who do not fall into one of these categories.
Please contact m.greaves@shu.ac.uk to register your interest.
Hear from taster course participants
'I would most definitely recommend this course to other interested parties. I attended in order to decide whether I still thought teaching was for me, and without having the unique opportunity to spend a day in a school I think I still would have struggled with my decision.
'It didn't seem to matter whether you were on the fence about teaching – as I know one of the attendees later realised teaching wasn't for her,
but having access to valuable information regarding getting into teaching, speaking to those from the teaching profession and spending time in a school, were, for me most useful. Since the course I have been able to research the numerous routes into teaching and I have decided I would like to pursue a PGCE Primary.'
Sharner Lal, taster course attendee
'I really gained a lot from this course. I got first hand information about what it is all about being a teacher in UK. I must acknowledge that the organisers of this course did tremendously well it was really fantastic. I had a whole day experience in a school where I had the opportunity to be in two different class rooms. It was a wonderful experience to see how
teaching goes on, classroom management, the use of ICT facilities, and the role of teaching assistant.
'This actually boosted my enthusiasm to go out there and teach. I got more insight into a practical responsibility of a teacher and the positive relationship a teacher builds with pupils.'
Ebenezer F Pobee, taster course attendee
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Laura Scales (2:07)
Hear how our teaching placements help you to put learning into practice.
Beccy Buck (1:21)
One of our mentor co-ordinators talks about what it takes to make a great teacher.
