Information Session 9th March 2019
1100 - 1300
I want to teach in the Scottish Highlands…
PGDE Full Time Primary & Secondary
Why choose these programmes?
These established programmes offer you a full time
course within Highland region based in Inverness or
North Highland College, joining a cohort from across
the wider UHI network.
UHI and school staff work together within a successful
partnership model to provide experience that is
current, locally contextualised and fit for national
purpose, and follows a clear progression.
PGDE staff include tutors who work across teacher
education programmes in UHI and those with recent/
current school-based responsibilities.
PGDE Full Time Primary & Secondary
Why choose these programmes? cont.
Programme learning materials are updated annually,
drawing extensively on the wide range of professional
capital available. The programme team work
collaboratively to stay responsive to the emerging
needs of each student teacher cohort.
Secondary subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing,
English, Gaelic, Home Economics, Mathematics, Physics
and Technology. We also offer a Gaelic Medium
pathway for both the Primary and Secondary
programme.
PGDE Full Time Primary & Secondary
What makes them unique?
Highland Council plan to offer you a probation year
within their schools or you can choose to apply to
other Local Authorities.
Our tutor team is also dispersed across UHI so that
each cohort of local students has dedicated and
supportive tutor contact in their UHI Academic Partner
and LA context. We offer a blended learning
programme, delivered through UHI technologies,
building your digital literacy as you learn.
PGDE Full Time Primary & Secondary
What makes them unique? cont.
We teach through a range of structured groupings,
offering cross–LA and cross-programme perspectives
and regular opportunities for professional dialogue
about your emerging professionalism. Programme
pedagogies intentionally model the approaches you
can then use in your own teaching placements, with an
emphasis on developing your professional agency and
identity experientially right from the start.
PGDE Full Time Primary & Secondary
Programme structure
The programmes run from August until June, with 18
weeks in college and 19 weeks in
school. Placements are in blocks of between 5 and 8
weeks, in three placement schools. These feed into and
out of the College-based weeks to frame an integrated
journey to provisional registration.
PGDE Full Time Primary & Secondary
Programme structure cont.
The College-based weeks are organised thematically
and offer a range of tutor-led and independent,
collaborative and individual learning opportunities.
There are six discrete assignments to complete in
College, your classroom teaching is assessed in each
placement school, and you will also maintain a
reflective portfolio of your professional practice-based
learning.
PGDE Full Time Primary & Secondary
Main contact details
Judith Munro
PGDE Secondary Programme Leader
Lindsay Nicol
PGDE Primary Programme Leader
PGDE Rural LTT (Primary)
Highland Council employees looking to change their
career
Continue to work and earn while studying at night
Meet people from across the authority and develop
close working relationships
End up with a good working knowledge of the schools
you may be placed in for probationer year
Continue to live at home and stay close to family and
friends
Why choose this programme?
PGDE Rural LTT (Primary)
What makes it unique?
Working with two universities as well as local authority
representatives – broader understanding
Blend of network days and online study
Only open to Highland Council colleagues – ring
fenced for those who want to remain a Highland
Council employee but change career
PGDE Rural LTT (Primary)
Programme structure 14 month programme
Summer school for a week in Inverness UHI college
Online work
Network days on a Saturday - one per month
Academic assignments
Professional practice in schools (no more than 90
minutes away from your home)
Easter school for a week in Inverness UHI college
On completion, expectation that you will go onto
supply register until June and then follow Probationer
Induction programme run by Highland Council
PGDE Rural LTT (Primary)
Main contact details
Mark Lindley-Highfield ([email protected])
Aileen Mackay
STEM PIM
Why choose this programme?
Become a fully-qualified secondary teacher in 18 months through this postgraduate course, which provides you with financial support to help you study full-time in a rural local authority.
Available for priority subjects: Chemistry, Computing
Studies, Home Economics, Mathematics or Physics.
As this is a Master’s Level course (accrues 90 credits, SCQF
Level 11) the entry qualification is 2.1 or equivalent.
STEM PIM
What makes it unique?
The course duration is 18 months. On successful
completion of all course requirements you will you will be
awarded the PGDE (Secondary) and eligible for full
Registration with the GTCS.
You will receive financial support for the duration of the
course. Equivalent to scale point 0 on the Scottish Teacher
Salary Scale per annum for 18 months.
There is an emphasis on you becoming a leader of learning.
This feature permeates throughout the course and is
supported by one of the teaching modules.
STEM PIM
Structure of your week
Typically Monday to Thursday in school (4 days per
week in school throughout the term) and Friday study
day (at home ) including live online collaborative
learning.
Will I be on campus at any time?
University of Dundee - Induction Residential: 3 days
on campus followed by a mid-placement virtual
campus ‘residential’ live online learning.
University of Dundee - 3 day residential block before
placement 2
Programme structure
STEM PIM
Main contact details
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/study/pg/secondary-education-partnership/
Routes into Teaching
MA (Hons) Primary Education
4 year undergraduate programme
Professional Graduate Diploma in Education
PGDE Primary 10 months full time .
DLITE PGDE Primary 18 month part-time, distance
learning
PGDE Secondary 10 months full time
DLITE PGDE Secondary 18 month part-time, distance
learning
MA Full Time (Primary)
Why choose this programme?
Aberdeen produces creative, motivated and highly-skilled primary teachers confident to work with children in any educational setting.
You will benefit from flexibility, opportunity, research, new tools, exceptional staff and experience in school each year as you become equipped to inspire and guide young minds in the 21st century.
MA Full Time (Primary)
What makes it unique?
MA Full Time (Primary)
Programme structure
PGDE Full Time (Primary)
Why choose this programme?
The aim of this programme is to produce adaptable,
flexible teachers who are able to collaborate and
cooperate with other professionals, ready to face the
challenges of teaching in the 21st century and to
commit to the notion of life-long learning.
PGDE Full Time (Primary)
What makes it unique?
Innovative programme
Strong partnerships with Local Education Authorities
from Fife to Shetland
Committed and caring staff
Strong emphasis on inclusion and working with others
Excellent facilities
PGDE Full Time (Primary)
Programme structure
Blended learning course design – learning both on
campus and online
Extended placements in school
Placement plus days designed to support students as
theory in applied in practice
Assessments linked to school experience
Critical response to current policy requirements within
the Scottish Educational context
Engaging contexts for Learning
PGDE Full Time (Primary)
UK Team
Marketing and Student Recruitment
T: 01224 27 2090
Main contact details
PGDE DLITE (Primary)
Why choose this programme?
Guaranteed school placements in a school in Highland
Region.
Access to local support provided by a DLITE Support
and Development Officer.
Provision of locally based face-to-face Network days (6
Mandatory days on Saturdays plus optional sessions
on offer).
Guaranteed induction year job in Highland Region.
PGDE DLITE (Primary)
What makes it unique?
Ability to stay at home/locally while you study and
undertake placements.
Ability to continue to work full or part-time (other than
during placement weeks).
Highland Council employees are guaranteed time off
from current job for placement weeks – the relevant
Service will be asked to release participants and must
be met with the applicant’s Line Manager’s approval
These students (HC) will continue to be paid during
placement weeks (normal contractual pay).
PGDE DLITE (Primary)
Part-time, distance learning, 18 month programme of study
(120 credits), which includes 18 weeks of placement
experience in a Primary School.
• School 1 (P4-7): SE1 induction - March (2 weeks)
• SE1a – May-June (4 weeks)
• SE1b – November (4 weeks)
• School 2 (P1-3): SE2a – January-February (4 weeks)
• SE2b – May (4 weeks)
It makes use of blended learning opportunities: E-Learning,
face-to-face workshops (eight Saturday ‘Network’ days),
self-study, collaborative group work, and professional
practice on placement (18 weeks in total), to develop
academic, personal, and professional skills suitable for entry
into the teaching profession.
Programme structure
PGDE DLITE (Primary)
Main contact details
Mary Stephen
Programme Director DLITE (Primary)
University of Aberdeen
email: [email protected]
tel 01224 274738
Holly Ross
Local Authority (DLITE) Development Officer
email: [email protected]
tel: 07884731360
PGDE DLITE (Secondary)
There is not currently any recruitment planned for Secondary
DLITE as an 18 month cohort has just begun.
The next recruitment will be in January 2021.
Why choose this programme?
For more information visit:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-
taught/degree-programmes/1121/dlite-pgde-secondary/
PGDE DLITE (Secondary)
What makes it unique?
The PGDE DLITE SECONDARY is a part-time, distance
learning, 18 month programme of study (120 credits),which
includes 18 weeks of placement experience in Secondary
Schools
Applications in 2018 were for the following PGDE Secondary
subjects: Computing, Mathematics, Home Economics,
Technical Education and Chemistry.
PGDE DLITE (Secondary)
Programme structure
It makes use of blended learning opportunities: E-Learning,
face-to-face workshops (four ‘Network’ days one on a
Saturday), self-study, collaborative group work, and
professional practice on placement (18 weeks in total),to
develop academic, personal, and professional skills suitable
for entry into the teaching profession. The programme
involves set courses which include:
• Developing Professional Practice 1 & 2:Professional
Studies, Learning & Teaching Through the Secondary
Curriculum, and Professional Practice.
• School Experience: 18 weeks of full-time placement over
the duration of the programme
PGDE DLITE (Secondary)
Main contact details
Jayne Bruce
Programme Director DLITE (Secondary)
University of Aberdeen
email: [email protected]
tel: 01224 274888
STQ
Why choose this programme?
Flexible Programme Delivery using distance learning
Working in a Community of Practice with teachers across
Scotland
Connecting practice to theory
STQ
What makes it unique?
Enables FE lecturers and those qualified outwith Scotland to
gain employment in primary or secondary
A qualification that leads to full GTCS registration
Gain 60 Master’s level
credits
STQ
Programme structure
Course 1
Developing professional practice for teaching in
Scotland (30 credits) Sept - Dec
Course 2 Developing professional
practice to enhance learning (30 credits) Jan - May
PGCert in Educational Studies (STQ)
(60 credits) Exit Option
PGCert in Educational Studies (STQ)
18 weeks full-time equivalent employment under Provisional (Conditional) Registration
• Sept – Dec – 9 weeks (or minimally 6 weeks) • Jan – March – 9 weeks (or minimally 4 weeks) • April – May/June – remainder to achieve 18 weeks minimum
With thanks…
University of Aberdeen
University of Dundee
University of Highlands and Islands
Highland Council staff
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