Teaching society?
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Re: Teaching society?I'm trying to explore the key challenges students encounter as they make the transition from GCSE to A-level for the sciences and maths, and try and identify any factors that may be associated with students underperforming.
Pretty much no-one has looked at the topic before. Which is just weird given how important it is!
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Re: Teaching society?There is such a huge gap between GCSE and A level which seems to be an elephant in the room. In my subject, Music, it's getting wider as no-one teaches theory (they don't need it for GCSE) and now all the local schools have switched to BTEC to improve their results! Hopeless preparation for GCE. The Unis are now reporting a gap between GCE and degree - they usually have to spend the first year getting students up to speed on basic theory, harmony, composition and history.
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Re: Teaching society?I am about to begin my third year of Biochemistry at Leeds and really want to teach primary. I have been looking at these places... Any advice?
PGCE
UEA
Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln
University of Derby (probably too far)
School Centred
Billericay Consortium
Essex Primery Training Group
Thames Primary
Suffolk and Norfolk
Anyone been to these places/ know what their reputation is like?
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Re: Teaching society?TBH, around there you are going to have to commute a fair way to get to placements. Cambridge itself has placements as far west as peterborough, as far east as ipswich, as far north as kings lyn, and almost as far south as london.(Original post by timeofflight)
Anyone been to these places/ know what their reputation is like?
Does anyone else know of somewhere closeish to the cambs suffolk border?
As you're going to be spending most of your time im placement, be prepared to have to travel a fair bit, unless you get very lucky.
Otherwise around there Cambridge Uni is pretty decent (surprise surprise), as is Bedford Uni (a bit further west, but not as bad as Derby!). Anglia Ruskin has a PGCE course too.
In the end, PGCEs are all a much of a muchness, it's the same standards you have to meet, and it's all school focused anyway. My current school takes trainees from a famous red-brick, and a local poly, and both get the same treatment at our end. -
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Re: Teaching society?I know I will be commuting a long way, but it is better to start local... not with Northumberland or somewhere! I don't think I would get in at Cambridge to be honest and I have heard some things that worry me about ARU. I thought about Bedford, but didn't know much about it's reputation...(Original post by gingerbreadman85)
TBH, around there you are going to have to commute a fair way to get to placements. Cambridge itself has placements as far west as peterborough, as far east as ipswich, as far north as kings lyn, and almost as far south as london.
As you're going to be spending most of your time im placement, be prepared to have to travel a fair bit, unless you get very lucky.
Otherwise around there Cambridge Uni is pretty decent (surprise surprise), as is Bedford Uni (a bit further west, but not as bad as Derby!). Anglia Ruskin has a PGCE course too.
In the end, PGCEs are all a much of a muchness, it's the same standards you have to meet, and it's all school focused anyway. My current school takes trainees from a famous red-brick, and a local poly, and both get the same treatment at our end. -
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Re: Teaching society?If you don't apply, you'll definitely not get in ;-)(Original post by timeofflight)
I know I will be commuting a long way, but it is better to start local... not with Northumberland or somewhere! I don't think I would get in at Cambridge to be honest and I have heard some things that worry me about ARU. I thought about Bedford, but didn't know much about it's reputation...
Bedford Uni's education departement originated as a teacher-training college dating back to the the 19th century, so they've got a long history of teacher training. The weird thing with PGCEs is that a lot of "local polys" have actually been delivering teacher training for longer than many red-bricks.
