Postgraduate Certificate Further Education and Skills

Overview

Are you passionate about starting or developing a career in teaching and learning? Progress your skills in the lifelong learning sector, and pursue a successful career teaching in a college, training provider, charity, prison, with this ideal qualification.

Throughout the course, you'll look at several areas that will each help you achieve your goal of becoming a teacher. You'll develop your personal and professional skills as you learn about teaching, learning and curriculum development. You'll also focus on your subject specialist area, putting a significant amount of your learning into practice in your place of work.

This course is an award of the Sheffield Hallam University and is an ideal route for you to work towards being a fully qualified teacher and to help you to gain the full professional status for teachers in Lifelong Learning (QTLS).

How will I be assessed

The course is run in a classroom environment, allowing you to share your ideas and reflections with your peers. You'll receive tutorial support and sessions focused on wider areas in lifelong learning throughout your course. In addition, you'll need to complete at least 100 hours of teaching per year.

Examples of assessments on the course include:

• Micro teach to peers

• Personal skills presentation

• Written assignments including essays, reports and reflective journals

• Reflective journals and accounts of your teaching

• Online personalised portfolio identifying skills development and areas to improve

• Teaching observations, evaluations and reflections

• Specialist conference paper supported by an online subject specialist tutor

• Self and peer assessment