BA(Hons) / BSc (Hons) in Education (Secondary)
Stirling, United Kingdom
DURATION
48 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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Introduction
Overview
Choose our BA (Hons) / BSc (Hons) Education (Secondary) degree and learn from world-leading academics and outstanding teachers who have strong partnerships with local schools. This gives you access to cutting-edge practice and research throughout your secondary teaching degree.
Top reasons to study with us
#1 We’re ranked 3rd in Scotland and Top 5 in the UK for Education (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023)
#2 We give you time to develop your skills as a teacher over four years – instead of a traditional one-year course
#3 Placements throughout the degree allow you to enhance your teaching skills and put theory into practice in a live teaching environment
Curriculum
Our pioneering approach to professional education gives you time to develop as a secondary school teacher. With our four year teaching degree, you’ll be able to grow in confidence and critically reflect on your skills. The course gives you a more personalised learning experience than the Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) route of only one year.
You'll gain a research-informed degree, making you well equipped to enter the world of secondary education from the day you graduate. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, our Educational research ranked third highest in Scotland for quality of research outputs with 100% of our research impact and environment in Education classed as world leading or internationally excellent.
We also deliver chemistry and physics teaching courses in collaboration with Forth Valley College.
Course details
For all education courses except Chemistry and Physics.
You’ll follow a course of eight semesters (four years), to gain an Honours degree in Professional Education (Secondary). Alternatively, seven semesters (three and a half years) leads to either a General degree or to a Bachelors degree in Professional Education. General degree students may only be able to qualify in one teaching subject.
Semesters 1 – 2
You’ll take the following core modules:
- Education: Purposes, Principles and Practice
- Education: Learning and Teaching
You can take part in a self-organised placement at any time in year 1. This can be in a school but does not have to be. You can consider the full range of educational opportunities children participate in, e.g. scouts, guides, museums, after school clubs, sports clubs etc.
Semesters 3 – 6
You’ll take a range of core and advanced modules in Education, including a range of teaching skills in your chosen subjects. To give you confidence before going out on teaching placements, you’ll take part in microteaching on campus. This involves teaching small groups of children or your peers.
You’ll also go on two school placements, one lasting 4 weeks and one lasting 10 weeks (with 3 days in school and 2 at university), between Semesters 3-4 and 5-6. Physical Education students will take part in an additional four-week placement.
Semesters 7 – 8
Semester 7 includes a 10-12 week placement, as well as supplementary taught classes.
In Semester 8 you’ll complete an Enquiry into Practice that’s closely related to your placement, as well as doing further study in your teaching subject.
BA (Hons) Professional Education (Secondary) with Chemistry BA (Hons) Professional Education (Secondary) with Physics
These courses are delivered in collaboration with Forth Valley College. You will spend two years at college studying modules from HND Applied Sciences or HND Applied Chemical Sciences before participating in two years of initial teacher education at the University of Stirling, alongside student teachers.