Primary Education with QTS
University of East London
UCAS Code: X120 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of East London
UCAS Code: X120 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
This undergraduate course is designed for students who are committed to becoming primary school teachers. In only three years, you will gain a BA (Hons) degree and Qualified Teacher Status. Your degree will focus on children's rights, values and learning.
This course trains you to teach the five to eleven age range, but this will not restrict you to working with this age group. You will study pedagogy and subject knowledge covering both the Early Years Foundation Stage and National Curriculum. East London offers multicultural, multilingual and vibrant schools in which to learn, but your training at UEL will qualify you to teach anywhere in England or Wales.
UEL's Primary Education with QTS team is made up of experienced practitioners and researchers, who research a range of childhood issues and who have diverse experience in primary and early years' education.
With high graduate employability, this qualification provides a wide range of opportunities for career development across the primary education sector.
Modules
Year 1: School Based Training 1a: Mental Wealth (Core), School Based Training 1b: Professional Learning (Core), English Teaching in Primary Education (Core), Mathematics Teaching in Primary Education (Core), Child Development, Applied Pedagogy and Classroom Management (Core), Children's Rights and Children's Worlds (Core)
Year 2: School Based Training 2a: Mental Wealth (Core), School Based Training 2b: Professional Learning (Core), Curriculum Subject Knowledge: Professional Development (Core), Curriculum Subject Knowledge: Policy Development (Core), Assessment in Primary Education (Core), Research Methods (Core)
Year 3: School Based Training 3a: Mental Wealth (Core), School Based Training 3b: Professional Learning (Core), Specialist Applied Project (Core), Values-based Teaching (Core), Wider School Life (Core)
For more information about individual modules, please visit our course pages via the link below.
Assessment methods
We assess all modules through different forms of coursework. Assessment methods include group works, exams and individual work including essays.
In addition to writing traditional essays, you'll be required to write reports, policy reviews and give presentations. This is to ensure you gain skills that are relevant to and can be transferred to the workplace. In your final year, you'll write a research dissertation.
All grades count towards your module mark.
More details will be included in the student handbook and module guides. Feedback is provided within 15 working days in line with UEL's assessment and feedback policy.
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The stats above mainly cover teaching degrees for training and qualifying in primary school education. These tend to be three or four-year courses — check with course tutors about how long you will need to study to get your Qualified Teacher Status. Most graduates go into teaching roles — usually primary school teaching, so these courses have good employment rates and starting salaries. We have a shortage of teachers of all kinds, which is deepening, and whilst many of the most severe are at secondary level, the prospects for this degree are not likely to take a downturn any time soon.
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