Student teachers, working collaboratively as well as individually, in classrooms will improve their professional skills and assume increasing responsibility for planning and classroom management. Teaching Studies, Curriculum Studies and Subject Study all continue into Year three. At this stage in the course, student teachers will be able to take responsibility for the full primary curriculum in their teaching. During years two and three, several units of final degree assessment will be completed. The programme of School Experience, chosen Subject Study and Professional courses continues in Year four.
Students take the remaining units of the final degree assessment.
In this course much of the learning is intended to lead towards and stem from practical work. You will be learning to teach science through extending your own experience of what science is and what it means to be scientific. The science course will begin with a week of sessions in September which will be followed up with further sessions throughout the year. Together with this, tutorial staff will be involved with both school and block experiences. Involvement in practical experiences to develop an understanding of the underlying philosophy.