Design and Technology

The Design & Technology programme prepares Trainees to teach in secondary schools. All Trainees follow a core-syllabus focusing on the generic skills, knowledge and concepts related to designing and making. Trainees will also develop their subject knowledge within their areas of specialism in order to become able and confident teachers at Key Stages 3 and 4. The areas of specialism follow the Design and Technology Association's (DATA) model of a Design & Technology teacher. The areas are; Resistant Materials Technology, Systems & Control, Food Technology and Textiles Technology. Trainees have to follow two of these areas plus the Core Skills requirement. Trainees will have opportunities to use and evaluate a wide range of subject specific resources and materials including ICT. Trainees will be able to see progression from Key Stage 2, through the secondary years, to the continuing development at Post-16.

Information Communication Technology

The Information Communication Technology programme sets out to introduce Trainees to a range of strategies for teaching ICT. It is envisaged that Trainees will join the programme from a diverse range of academic and industry or commerce backgrounds with a wide range of IT skills. These skills should be in the underpinning theories as well as software use. The programme will audit these skills and build upon them to produce teachers capable of delivering ICT courses in secondary schools. The programme will enable the Trainee to become familiar with the many forms of ICT in schools. Trainees will be able to help colleagues develop the use of ICT within other National Curriculum subjects. Trainees will acquire knowledge about key concepts in teaching and learning ICT as well as the current formal arrangements for the assessment of ICT within the context of the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. Trainees will be able to see progression from Key Stage 2, through the secondary years, to the continuing development at Post-16.

Mathematics

The Mathematics programme sets out to introduce Trainees to a range of strategies for teaching Mathematics. It is envisaged that Trainees will join the course from a diverse range of academic and industrial or commercial backgrounds, with Mathematical skills. The programme will audit and build upon these skills to produce teachers capable of delivering Mathematics courses in secondary schools. Trainees will acquire knowledge about key concepts in teaching and learning Mathematics, as well as the current formal arrangements for the assessment of the subject within the context of the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. Trainees will be able to see progression from Key Stage 2, through the secondary years, to the continuing development at Post-16.

Modern Languages

The Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) programme sets out to introduce Trainees to a range of strategies for teaching Modern Foreign Languages. It is envisaged that Trainees will join the programme from a diverse range of academic and industrial or commercial backgrounds, with Modern Foreign Languages skills. The programme will audit and build upon these skills to produce teachers capable of delivering Modern Foreign Languages courses in secondary schools. The programme will enable the Trainees to become familiar with the many forms of Modern Foreign Languages in schools. Trainees will acquire knowledge about key concepts in teaching and learning Modern Foreign Languages, as well as the current formal arrangements for the assessment of Modern Foreign Languages within the context of the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. Trainees will be able to see progression from Key Stage 2, through the secondary years, to the continuing development at Post-16.

Science

The Science programme sets out to introduce Trainees to a range of strategies for teaching Science. It is envisaged that Trainees will join the course from a diverse range of academic and industrial or commercial backgrounds, with a wide range of Science skills. The course will audit and build on these skills to produce teachers capable of delivering the full range of Science courses in secondary schools. The programme will enable the Trainee to become familiar with the many forms of science in schools. Trainees will acquire knowledge about key concepts in teaching and learning Science, as well as the current formal arrangements for the assessment of Science within the context of the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. Trainees will be able to see progression from Key Stage 2, through the compulsory secondary years, to the continuing development at Post-16.