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About Pgde Postgraduate Diploma In Education in University of Sheffield

Course description

Our graduates make great teachers. It’s that simple. The Initial Teacher Education (ITE) course helps you develop an understanding of research, policies and practice relating to education in general and secondary education in particular. You’ll analyse and reflect on what you learn to connect research with the classroom.

We teach an approach to your work that will stay with you throughout your career. Our graduates are dedicated to lifelong learning, developing their professional practice, and using classroom-based research. You’ll learn everything the qualified teacher needs to know about planning, teaching, learning, assessing, policies and processes.

Routes offered

We offer a provider-led route plus School Direct with a choice of four different clusters of schools. 

The routes are all quite similar, but the main differences for the School Direct routes are:

• You’ll have your two school placements in the schools within the cluster that you are attached to, rather than in any school across the partnership.
• The schools in your cluster will have a greater input into the PGDE programme throughout the year.
• There will be a strong possibility of securing employment within the cluster of schools that you are attached to, subject to availability and suitability.

Subjects covered

• English
• Geography
• History
• Mathematics
• Languages
• Science with Biology, Chemistry or Physics
• Physics with Maths

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Age range

Secondary (11–19).

Entry requirements

• A good honours degree (minimum 2:2, or for maths, physics and physics with maths applicants minimum class 3 with at least a grade B in the relevant A Level) in one of our teaching subjects or with a strong element of a teaching subject.
• You also need GCSE grade 4/C in English Language and Mathematics, or the equivalent. 
• Candidates without these qualifications may either take the necessary examinations in the year before the course starts or take our entrance test in English and/or Mathematics. 
• Completing a Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) course may also be a condition of an offer of a place on the course.

English language requirements

• GCSE English Language grade 4/C (or equivalent)
• If you need a visa to study in the UK, your qualification should meet the requirements set out on our English language requirements web page (for example, a GCSE English Language completed no more than five years ago). If your qualification does not meet these requirements, you should also complete one of the acceptable English language qualifications or tests listed on this page. English language tests should be completed to the Standard level.

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