Course summary

This course is designed to support you in gaining a PGCE Primary and achieving the standards to be a Qualified Teacher. It also provides you with an opportunity to gain 60 Masters level credits. The course will focus on learning and teaching across the primary phase of education through:

• Exploring how learning links to the development of ourselves as teachers and the pupils with whom we work

• Harnessing the power of research and professional knowledge as a key part of our own reflective practice and theory building

• Promoting creative and innovative approaches to teaching and learning

• Taking account of the role of education in developing the whole person by modelling a reflective and enquiry-based approach to learning, promoting learning in a broad range of local, national and international contexts and exploring sustainability as a key feature of learning for the present and the future; and by promoting core educational values such as honesty, compassion, integrity and the pursuit of wisdom

• Promoting equality of opportunity in all learning environments

• Monitoring, evaluating and assessing the impact of the learning environment on all learners

• Providing individual support and development for learners based on their individual needs and endeavours to build respectful learning communities.