Secondary Education - Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton

Overview

The PGCE in Secondary Education - Social Sciences at University of Wolverhampton  is an exciting secondary school curriculum subject area, both to study and to teach. If you take up our Postgraduate Certificate of Education in Secondary Education (Sociology), you will study the way that people behave within society, how they interact, how people influence the world, and investigate what these factors mean.

Quick Facts:

• The subject area covers topics such as sociology (socialisation, culture, identity, social differentiation, power, stratification, education, family, health, work, poverty, welfare religion, globalisation, media, crime, research methods); health and social care (human growth and development, communication and values, positive care environments, social aspects and lifestyle choices, activities for health and wellbeing, public health, meeting individual needs, promoting health and wellbeing, investigating disease, using and understanding research, social issues and welfare needs, understanding human behaviour); and personal, social, health, and economic education. 
• As a trainee you will learn how to teach social sciences to pupils in the 14-19 age range within the secondary age phase, with additional experience in the 11-14 age range and primary enhancements. You will learn how to develop skills, knowledge and understanding for teaching social sciences through a combination of university-led and school-led training.

Career opportunities

The PGCE in Secondary Education leads to recommendation for QTS, and enables you to take up a qualified teaching post in a secondary school.

In secondary schools you could be considered for a Teaching and Learning Responsibility (TLR), which may comprise any of the following:

• Leading a particular subject as head of department, faculty or curriculum

• Leading the achievement of a particular age group as head of year or key stage coordinator

• Leading a particular area such as special education needs or pastoral care (i.e. personal guidance)

Later, you could progress to a senior leadership position such as a deputy or assistant head and head teacher - at which point you will have overall responsibility for the leadership and management of a school and the education its students receive.