BA in Primary Education with QTS
Birmingham City University
Key Information
Campus location
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 9,250 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* UK students: £9,250 per year | international students: £13,980 per year
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Introduction
Do you have a passion for inspiring and educating young learners, and want the best possible career opportunities after graduating? This exciting degree provides you with a variety of opportunities to explore your interests and develop core skills and experience in Primary and Early Years teaching.
What's covered in this course?
Our course offers you the chance to gain the professional qualification of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) as well as a degree, helping you walk into your dream job as a primary school teacher immediately after graduating from university.
This course allows you to specialise in age phases 3-7 or 5-11, qualifying you to deliver primary education in schools and early years settings and gives you the opportunity to work in a Special Educational Needs school.
Your placements in local schools in the wider Birmingham area give you practical experience right from the start of this training course. We believe working in schools with experienced teachers and children is key to developing you into a committed, creative and confident teacher with existing relationships to benefit from when seeking employment after graduation.
Our course is underpinned by a commitment to your well-being and achievement in a supportive and nurturing environment. Your learning will be led by highly experienced tutors who facilitate a wide range of practical experience and taught sessions to engage you in reflective and critical evaluation of research, policy and practice. You will be well supported during the course in your journey to becoming an outstanding teacher.
Where will I study?
Our Education courses are taught at our recently extended £71 million City South Campus in Edgbaston, which includes brand-new state-of-the-art facilities. Our facilities are specifically designed to develop your knowledge and skills in primary teaching.
Why choose us?
- We have partnerships across the West Midlands, which means that you can benefit from training in a range of schools and early years settings.
- Practical hands-on experience in schools right from the start of your programme.
- Study at our recently extended state-of-the-art £71 million City South Campus, which includes specialist facilities such as the Primary Innovation Room and a Primary Science Lab.
- We have a number of international links (Spain, France and Germany) to enable you to experience primary education in another country.
- We meet the Department for Education's (DfE) Criteria for Initial Teacher Training and successful candidates on our Initial Teacher Training courses will be recommended to the DfE for Qualified Teacher Status.
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Curriculum
Year One
In order to complete this course, you must successfully complete all the following core modules (totalling 120 credits).
- An Introduction to Core
- The Developing Child
- The Emerging Teacher
- Understanding the Foundation Curriculum
- Subject Learning and Teaching
- School-Based Training 1
Year Two
In order to complete this course, you must successfully complete all the following core modules (totalling 120 credits).
- Promoting Progress in Core
- Assessing and Reporting
- Special Educational Needs and Disability and Inclusion
- Developing the Foundation Curriculum
- Subjects in Action
- School-Based Training 2
Year Three
In order to complete this course, you must successfully complete all the following core modules (totalling 120 credits).
- Critical Issues in Core
- Current Issues in Education
- Creative Teaching in the Foundation Curriculum
- Research in Education
- School-Based Training 3
Career Opportunities
Enhancing your employability skills
On the BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS programme, you will experience a wide variety of learning and teaching approaches that are designed to develop your confidence, knowledge and skills as you progress through the course.
We will support you in the transition to university through a careful induction process, confidence-building activities, group work and a carefully planned programme with a range of formative and summative assessments.
Your programme will be interactive, practical, engaging, thought-provoking and challenging and is designed to promote independence so that you become a confident, committed and creative teacher ready to join the teaching profession.
On the programme, you will experience a variety of learning and teaching approaches that focus on modelling good practice and these will include: workshops, conferences, lectures, seminars, a range of guest speakers, visits to schools/settings and other sites as well as a range of practical teaching experiences.
The content of the programme is research-led, innovative and responsive to the educational climate to enable you to develop your subject and pedagogical knowledge and apply it in the classroom.
The BA Primary Education with QTS programme is a three-year undergraduate course that leads to the award of a degree and qualified teacher status.
The newly designed programme offers you an honours degree and a recommendation for the award of QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) on successful completion of all elements over three years of full-time study.
Placements
We have developed a shared vision for educational excellence with the schools in our partnership. You will benefit from working with and learning from outstanding classroom teachers in schools and at University. Working in schools with teachers and children is key to you becoming a committed, creative and confident teacher.
The new concept for the school-based elements of the programme provides greater opportunities to spend time in school. Over the three years, you will spend some days in your allocated school to allow you to get to know the school and pupils before starting your block placement. On your block placements, you will start working with individuals and small groups building to more and more whole class teaching and responsibility over time. This will enable you to develop reflective practice, confidence, knowledge and skills drawing closely from the curriculum sessions in university.