In conjunction with Secondary Lead School partners, the University of Chester offer English (11-16 with sixth form enhancement) as a subject specialism leading to the award PGCE with QTS. Teaching is an extremely rewarding and challenging career. Our course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher. We aim to nurture teachers who are passionate about the development of their own and their pupils' earning. English is taught in conjunction with Lead Secondary Partners.Alliance of Leading Learning, Salop Teaching Partnership, Teach Cheshire, Sandstone Trust and Wade Deacon Trust.The course intends to produce secondary English teachers who are reflective practitioners, who have a love of the subject, and will be:enthusiastic and confident in the classroompedagogically skilful and adaptablespecialists in the teaching of Englishaware of how young people learn Englishknowledgeable across all areas of English – literature and languageable to see their subject in the context of the whole curriculum, and understand how the skills of English can transfer across all subjectscompetent in a variety of areas that cross secondary school curriculum boundaries, and able to see English in the wider context - contributing to pupils' personal, social, moral, spiritual and cultural developmentable to work effectively as part of a teamable to critically examine issues raised within the study of the subjectprepared for teaching English in the 21st CenturyThe course is designed to ensure you are confident in all basic national curriculum requirements.Careers serviceThe University has an award-winning Careers and Employability service which provides a variety of employability-enhancing experiences; through the curriculum, through employer contact, tailored group sessions, individual information, advice and guidance.Careers and Employability aims to deliver a service which is inclusive, impartial, welcoming, informed and tailored to your personal goals and aspirations, to enable you to develop as an individual and contribute to the business and community in which you will live and work.We are here to help you plan your future, make the most of your time at University and to enhance your employability. We provide access to part-time jobs, extra-curricular employability-enhancing workshops and offer practical one-to-one help with career planning, including help with CVs, applications and mock interviews. We also deliver group sessions on career planning within each course and we have a wide range of extensive information covering graduate jobs and postgraduate study.
