Primary and SEND Education with QTS University of Sunderland

Overview

On the Primary and SEND Education with QTS programme offered by University of Sunderland you'll spend time in different schools to understand what it is like to be a primary school teacher, including teaching children who need extra help.

Key facts

This course prepares you to become a primary school teacher in England.

You'll study teaching and gain hands-on experience in real classrooms. The course includes 120 days of school placements, helping you learn how to teach all children, including those who need extra support.

With partnerships across more than 650 schools, colleges, and other educational settings, we'll support you in finding a placement that matches your career goals.

We design placement tasks and assessments to check that you can apply your knowledge and skills in different contexts. This allows for purposeful integration between the university-based curriculum and practice in placements.

During placements, you'll need to observe, take part in, investigate and record various aspects of teaching, learning, and assessment and classroom procedures and processes. This includes Intensive Training and Practice (ITAP) weeks which give you the chance to explore different teaching methods in detail.