Teaching and learning

Participation in the PGCE course is an active process. You'll learn through a combination of the following activities:

talks by guest speakers, including experts from our partnership schools
seminars
watching videos from experts locally, regionally and nationally
taking part in discussions in seminars at university and in school
Workshops in subject groups and cross curricular groups
school-based activities
classroom management activities
lesson and lesson sequence planning activities
Lectures, face to face and asynchronous
Presentations from peers and from local teachers
individual mentoring
Self-study using carefully collated materials and tasks
access to resource rooms on campus

All of the above covers the minimum trainee entitlement of the national Core Content Framework, and in addition explores further themes through exposure to national and international expertise in educational themes from our department researchers and colleagues.

You'll find much of the course centres on practical activities that emphasise team work, group discussion and that requires trainees to share the responsibility for their learning. This is deliberate and reflects the way in which you will operate as a team member in a department, pastoral team or management team in a school.

Throughout the course, trainees are given guidance and support by mentors and Professional Tutors in school as well as from their university tutors.

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Contact us
education-pgce-admissions@york.ac.uk
01904 323576