PGCE 2014 Applications (NOT FOR SPECIFIC INTERVIEW TASK DISCUSSIONS)

I've been led to believe by my uni that we won't be able to search UTT until the 21st. However, they also emailed us today to say that we might not be able to book our skills tests until mid-November, so I'd take that with a pinch of salt, considering I've already booked mine...

I do have more recent experience as well. I have five days in a primary school in June, I'm going back there next week for another five days, and I'm doing ten days in a different school in January. So hopefully that should be enough!

Ahh that sucks then ! It doesn't sound like anyone knows really ! How have you booked them then? The skills tests confuse me! I'm from wales and will be applying here as my first choice. At the moment wales doesn't do the tests and students who started 2013 haven't sat them to gain a place on the course. Are these tests coming to wales for 2014 entry? I know that if I apply to english unis I'll have the sit them, but at the moment no one can actually give me an answer / google isn't that helpful either.

That's what I thought and no one around here seems to think so ! Applying in england is my second choice, so I'll sit them once I know whether or not I've got in to a uni in wales. Have you done the practice tests? The maths one is so hard !

You know now the applications are done through ucas are they still the same as gttr, in the way that one application goes to one provider at a time? or do they all get sent out at the same time?

I thought the applications were going to open in 1st November. That's today but I don't see any open applications!

Nope. The changes this year are that
a) the name has changed from gttr to utt
b) you now apply to multiple places at once if you wish, similar to how undergrad is done only you get three choices instead of five, no preference order

I believe that if you are rejected from all three you can then go on to apply to more places one at a time like last year, but I may have remembered this wrongly so don't rely on it.



It has changed to 21st Nov.

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Has anyone else noticed that you can now search for courses on the ucas website for pgce? I was told not until the 4th for searching and 21st for applying but I was just reading up on the application process and I found lists of courses for 2014 ?

Sure it's http://search.gttr.ac.uk/cgi-bin/hsrun.hse/General/gttr_search/gttr_search.hjx;start=gttr_search.HsForm.run
It says that courses can be added, I know a lot of the ones I wanted aren't on there yet and they are deffo running it next year.

Ah thanks, I was looking on UCAS not GTTR. Yeah, I think it must not be complete yet, at least I hope so otherwise I'd be having a panic attack now since all my choices aren't listed! Most of the things coming up for my school are schools direct.

I can't find out if I need to do it through UCAS or GTTR. do you have any idea?

I am applying for Primary PGCE - Do we select 3 different uni's AND a certain number of schools we want our placements to be at? Or do we just select our uni's and then if we get accepted the unis help us in finding placements at a later date?

Hope this makes sense! :\

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Does anyone know if before starting PGCEs (Primary) there is work to do over the summer? I'm going to be in Uganda teaching and I was told that we might have things to do over the summer, in which case I can't apply this year!

I doubt it will be something which will stop you doing the course that year and also going to Uganda.

For my PGCE for example, we had a suggested reading list of which I read a few (like 3 or 4), they suggested we go to local places of interest for children, and we had to start a diary of children's books we had read and write 3 one page book reviews. We also had to create a 'magic box' which had items around a theme - could just be items relating to us like tickets, photos, jewellery etc.

Obviously that is specific to my uni but I would imagine the tasks at other unis would be similar. They aren't going to be asking you to write a huge essay or anything like that! It might be an idea to speak to your provider before you go (unless they've already sent you the info) so that you can
1. Ensure you give them any info they might ask for while you're out there.
2. Know any recommended reading or small tasks so you can take some books and pens/paper with you, if this will be possible (don't know about luggage limits and where you'll be staying etc).

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Thank you that is helpful I won't really be contactable whilst I'm there so I'd need everything sorted beforehand. Unfortunately taking books and stuff is out of the question as I'm extremely limited to what I can take!

I'm sure they will be understanding if you don't have time, many others will be working and juggling family life alongside that over the summer, so people won't be doing tonnes of prep. Plus, what you're doing will give you more to reflect on to do with teaching! So it's a worthwhile thing to be doing from that perspective.

Yeah, I'd call in or phone around a month before you go, so you can sort out everything and then you have some time to do a bit of casual reading. Like I said I only read a few books, and I chose the ones I was really interested in as I used that to guide me. I think I read Anita and Me and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (which I'd read before), read some (very few) bits of 2 textbooks and watched a documentary about a really tiny school in France. So it wasn't like intense reading and building of knowledge. It was just considering childhood and interesting things. You could also tailor it to your situation. So if they were, like my uni, to ask you to think about childhood, you could write down thoughts on your own childhood (or just think if no paper and pen).

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