Primary Education with QTS
About this course
Graduates of this course will have the knowledge, skills, values and dispositions to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS) and be a professional teacher, ready to work in Wales and beyond.
The core content includes:
• **Alternative setting** – an opportunity to experience education in its widest sense;
• **Bridging** – the process by which practical and theoretical knowledge meet, and the transformative approach is enacted;
• **Compulsory modules** – the co-constructed and co-delivered content (pedagogic and subject related) of the programme which will underpin undergraduate study;
• **Electives** – a school-based and university-supported experience where students can elect to follow a more specialist line of inquiry in order to deepen curriculum knowledge;
• **Partnership conference** – the opportunity to share best practice at a conference event in order that the partnership can be transformed;
• **Qualified Teacher Status** – a compulsory professional pathway leading to the award of qualified teacher status;
• **Welsh Language Skill Development** – a compulsory professional pathway to develop students’ confidence and competence in speaking Welsh.
A total of 24 weeks will be based in school to gain professional teaching experience.
Modules
Year One - Level 4
• Cycle 1 Core Studies: The Learner: who am I teaching? (20 credits)
• Cycle 1 Professional and Pedagogic Studies: Leading the Learning: what, how and why am I teaching? (30 credits)
• Cycle 1 Core Studies: Learners, Schools and Communities: where am I teaching? (30 credits)
• Cycle 1 Professional and Pedagogic Studies: Researching the Learning: what, how and why am I teaching? (20 credits)
• Learning in the Digital Era (20 credits; Graduate Attributes Framework module).
Year Two - Level 5
• Cycle 2 Core Studies: The Learner: who am I teaching? (30 credits)
• Cycle 2 Professional and Pedagogic Studies: Leading the Learning: what, how and why am I teaching? (30 credits)
• Cycle 2 Core Studies: Learners, Schools and Communities: where am I teaching? (30 credits)
• Cycle 2 Professional and Pedagogic Studies: Researching the Learning: what, how and why am I teaching? (30 credits).
Year Three - Level 6
• Cycle 3 Core Studies: The Learner: who am I teaching? (30 credits)
• Cycle 3 Professional and Pedagogic Studies: Leading the Learning: what, how and why am I teaching? (30 credits)
• Cycle 3 Core Studies: Learners, Schools and Communities: where am I teaching?
• Cycle 3 Professional and Pedagogic Studies: Researching the Learning: what, how and why am I teaching? (30 credits).
All modules are compulsory.
Assessment methods
The programme design provides the opportunity for assessments to be closely related to classroom practice and draw upon evidence gained from personal experience. This approach further establishes the links between intellectual and experiential learning.
For example, students will be required to design, conduct, evaluate and share a close-to-practice research project which will directly impact on learners. Whenever possible, assignments will be submitted and marked electronically to facilitate timely and effective feedback.
Assessment components include written assignments, a digital poster, portfolios, an individual video and a research project.
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