This module will see you:

  • develop a systematic knowledge and understanding of the wider professional requirements of teachers in secondary schools
  • develop critical understanding and awareness of contemporary whole school issues informed by professional practice
  • critically appraise policy and research related to the wider professional role of teachers.

The aims of this module are to equip students with the fundamental knowledge, understanding and skills and initial experiences necessary to analyse and evaluate the connections and interdependencies between subject knowledge, teachers and teaching, learners and learning, and context and behaviour in secondary school mathematics.

In your first extended placement, you will initially undertake a planned programme of observing and assisting experienced teachers designed to develop your confidence in working with pupils before gradually increasing the amount of teaching you do as your skills and confidence grow.

The aims of this module will be for students to begin to apply the general and subject-specific knowledge and teaching skills required of a specialist teacher of mathematics in a secondary school to their teaching practice; and develop the basic teaching competences detailed within the Core Content Framework (DfE, 2019).

The aims of this module are to equip students with more advanced knowledge, understanding and skills and further experiences and insights necessary to critically analyse and evaluate the connections and interdependencies between subject knowledge, teachers and teaching, learners and learning, and context and behaviour in secondary school mathematics.

In your second extended placement, you will follow a similar pattern and planned programme during the early weeks and will gradually progress to experience the full responsibilities of a teacher.

The aims of this module will be for students to develop the teaching skills necessary to qualify as a specialist teacher of mathematics in a secondary school; and apply the general and subject-specific knowledge and teaching skills/competences detailed within Core Content Framework (DfE, 2019) required to meet the Teachers' Standards (DfE, 2011).