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Middlesex University
United Kingdom
Post Graduate(PG)
£9,250 (UK)
1 year full-time
Fall and Spring
2:2 degree
The PGCE Geography with Humanities (QTS) is designed to guide you from a novice to an expert in teaching. Here’s what you can expect:
🔍 Pre-Course Preparation: Before starting, you’ll audit your knowledge in geography and humanities, creating an action plan to fill any gaps.
📚 Foundation Building: The course starts by deepening your understanding of why teaching geography is important and engages you with research and literature on effective pedagogy.
🌍 Curriculum Focus: You’ll get a solid grounding in teaching key geographical skills and concepts, such as space, place, and environmental interactions. The course also covers common areas between humanities subjects, including enquiry methods and outdoor learning.
👩🏫 Specialist Training: Opportunities to apply general humanities principles to geography will be provided. You’ll work with history students in parallel sessions and have specific breakout sessions focusing on teaching geography at Key Stage 4 (KS4).
🎓 Collaborative Learning: The course includes both individual and group work to enhance your skills and understanding. Subject specialists will deliver targeted sessions to support your development in teaching geography effectively.
By completing the PGCE Geography with Humanities (QTS) course, you’ll:
🎓 Achieve QTS: Obtain Qualified Teacher Status, qualifying you to teach geography and other humanities subjects in secondary schools.
🌍 Understand Geography: Gain a deep understanding of how and why to teach geography effectively in secondary education.
📚 Appreciate Other Subjects: Develop an appreciation for the unique aspects of other humanities subjects, enhancing your confidence to teach across a range of subjects.
🤝 Professional Support: Benefit from dedicated subject tutors, strong relationships with external specialists, and partnership schools providing contemporary and subject-specific training.
🏫 Integrated Training: Experience a blend of on-campus training at Middlesex University and school-based training at partner schools, supported by mentors, university tutors, and expert colleagues.
📘 Pedagogical Approach: Develop a common pedagogical approach for teaching all humanities subjects at Key Stage 3 (KS3) and geography up to and beyond Key Stage 4 (KS4).
1. The Alumni Postgraduate Award
2. The Commonwealth Scholarship
3. The Chevening Scholarship
4. The European Academic Awards
5. Regional or International Merit Award
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