Postgraduate Certificate in Education (SCITT) - Secondary

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme, students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- demonstrate in-depth subject knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and understanding and skills related to the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and National Curriculum and in relation to the wider educational context, a range of educational issues and teaching and learning strategies;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of techniques and rationale for classroom-based practitioner research and advanced scholarship;
- demonstrate the capacity to describe, analyse and evaluate aspects of their own practice and that of other education professionals;
- demonstrate the ability to recognise distinctive features of a particular educational context and how these might impact upon teaching and learning;
- with guidance, to develop ideas for classroom-based enquiry through formulation of hypotheses, the development, implementation and execution of plans, analysis and evaluation of outcomes;
- appreciate the value of evidence-based practice as a vehicle for professional development and school improvement;
- evaluate critically current issues and research in the discipline of education;
- take a proactive and self-reflective role in relation to their professional development.

Transferable (key) skills

Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and for employment in a higher capacity in teaching;
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critically to engage in the development of professional and disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement for the Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:

- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- evaluating received opinion;
- make sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.