Máster Universitario en Formación del Profesorado de Educación Secundaria, Bachillerato, FP y Enseñanza de Idiomas
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Stimulating young minds and watching pupils grow in confidence and achieve their full potential – that’s what secondary education is all about.
Our PGCE Master’s programme closely interweaves school and university-based training. Over 38 weeks, you’ll spend at least120 days (minimum 24 weeks) on school placement and 60 study days in structured learning at UEA.
You will develop a range of skills to enthuse youngsters and support them in achieving their linguistic potential, and learn about the importance of developing cultural understanding and the impact this can have in shaping young people’s worldviews.
Our course will provide you with the opportunity to research and evaluate the latest thinking in good teaching practice. It will help you understand how pupils best learn foreign languages, so that you can support and guide them in an effective manner. It will also allow you to develop your own strategies to make your teaching an engaging and positive experience for all.
Degree Subject Languages
Degree Classification 2:2 or above preferred.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Applicants are required to have achieved a degree or its equivalent* in languages, languages and literature or linguistics by the beginning of the PGCE programme in September. In addition to high level language skills, applicants should have a good knowledge of the countries and cultures where the language(s) offered are spoken.
The main languages currently required by schools are French, German and Spanish. It is important that you are able to offer two of these languages - one to be able to teach to ´A´ level where possible but definitely to Key Stage 4 GCSE, and another to at least Key Stage 3, although proficiency in other languages (such as Italian and Russian) will be considered if these are offered as a second language. Early applicants can participate in funded Subject Knowledge Enhancement courses to improve the second foreign language being offered. Native speakers with a non-language based degree are encouraged to make enquiries regarding eligibility for entry to the course.
STUDENTS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
We welcome applications from students whose first language is not English. To ensure such students benefit from postgraduate study, we require evidence of proficiency in English. Our usual entry requirements are as follows:
IELTS: 6.5 (minimum 6.0 in all components)
PTE (Pearson): 62 (minimum 55 in all components)
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date. Other tests such as the Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English are also accepted by the university. Please check with the Admissions Office for further details including the scores or grades required.
Your focus will be on a number of areas, including the nature of communication in the classroom, the development of language skills - giving pupils the ability to initiate conversation and to develop greater independence in reading, writing and listening in a foreign language.
You will be using a range of language learning strategies. Topics covered will include the use of the target language, differentiation, the teaching of grammar, intercultural awareness and global citizenship, and special needs and diversity. Research on wider educational issues such as motivation, personalisation, gender and achievement, language take-up and different teaching and learning styles, including the use of the target language and grammar teaching, will also be considered and are essential to an understanding of effective MFL teaching.
You will work in pairs and groups as well as individually on specific tasks. Through collaboration, you will also keep developing your first and second languages in interactive group settings. Tasks throughout the course will help you to link your reflections on language teaching with practice in the classroom. You will build up a bank of language teaching resources and a glossary of key expressions to support work in the classroom.
You will thrive on this course if you are a linguist who is passionate about language learning. You will have a strong desire to inspire pupils to love and enjoy the languages and cultures you are teaching. You will want your pupils to take this passion for language with them into the world.
You will be learning to teach in a world where technologies have enhanced communication links, bringing different countries and cultures closer together. You will learn to make the most of a wide range of ICT tools to achieve greater authenticity in the classroom.
The course will give you the skills to remove barriers to learning. You will learn to create a positive and inclusive learning environment where language learning is enjoyable for all. All of this will be achieved within the demands of the National Curriculum, GCSE and post-16 specifications.
As a language student, you will have full use of the James Platt Centre for Language Learning at UEA to help develop your language skills. Use this state-of-the-art resource to read and listen for example, to the news in your chosen language.
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