Secondary in Design Technology (School-Led) PGCE with QTS

University of Chester

In conjunction with Secondary Lead School partners, the University of Chester offer Design and Technology (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' learning. Design and Technology is taught in conjunction with Lead Secondary Partners: Alliance of Leading Learning, Sandstone Trust, Salop Teaching Partnership, Teach Cheshire and Wade Deacon Trust. During the course, you will learn how to encourage young people’s understanding of design and technology through your subject specialism. We encourage reflective practitioners to be: enthusiastic and confident in the classroom pedagogically skilful and adaptable specialists in the teaching of Design Technology aware of how young people may learn skills in Design Technology, and applying their skills in a broad range of projects able to see their subject in the context of the whole curriculum competent in a number of areas that cross secondary school curriculum boundaries able to work as part of a team.

Chester School of Education