PGCE Primary (School Direct) with Qualified Teacher Status

Start date: September

Course length: One year full time

Campus: In local schools and Derby Campus, Kedleston Road

You can study over one year or choose the flexible route which will take between two and three years. If you choose the flexible route we will develop a personalised training plan for you and you'll take half the modules in one year and the other half the next, with one teaching block per year.

You'll study these modules:

Stage one

• An Introduction to Reflective Teaching
• Effective Learning and Teaching: English and Mathematics with ICT
• Effective Learning and Teaching in Science and the Wider Curriculum
• Understanding the Child as a Learner

Stage two

• Specialist Subject Enhancement
• Understanding the School as a Learning Community
• Reflective Practice in Action

You will usually need an undergraduate honours degree (preferably 2:1) or an equivalent qualification. You will also need GCSE grade C or above in English Language, Maths and Science and a wide range of recent experience in UK primary schools. You will need to have successfully completed the National College for Teaching and Leadership's skills test for literacy and numeracy.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is required at the point of accepting a place at the University. The Disclosure and Barring Service was established when the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) merged in 2012 and will now provide the criminal records checking service for this programme.

This is a premium course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £9,000 (each year)

For September 2013, DfE (Department for Education) bursaries are to be re-introduced for all Primary PGCE programmes. Successful applicants with First class honours degrees will qualify for £9,000 whilst those with a 2.1 degree classification will be entitled to £4,000.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

Full time UK/EU students

• This is a premium course and will cost £9,000 per year

For September 2012, TDA bursaries are to be re-introduced for all Primary PGCE programmes. Successful applicants with First class honours degrees will qualify for £9,000 whilst those with a 2.1 degree classification will be entitled to £5,000.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

You will spend most of your time learning how to teach in schools linked to our network of partner teaching schools. Located across the Midlands they will work together in clusters to support you on placement. The placements and enhanced school opportunities will provide you with challenging and exciting experiences. You will also spend time here at the University working in our excellent facilities with University and school-based tutors, in order to develop your growing understanding of what it takes to become a great teacher.

How you're assessed

You will spend most of your time learning how to teach in schools linked to our network of partner teaching schools. Located across the Midlands they will work together in clusters to support you on placement. The placements and enhanced school opportunities will provide you with challenging and exciting experiences. You will also spend time here at the University working in our excellent facilities with University and school-based tutors, in order to develop your growing understanding of what it takes to become a great teacher.

Upon completing this course you will have gained Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). By choosing teaching as a career, you will have
chosen an important and satisfying profession as well as a challenging and rewarding journey through life. When you have completed this course you will have gained 60 credits at masters level, which means you can fast track to stage two of a masters degree, quickly progressing your professional development.