Our Science programme has proven very successful for the fifteen years that we have been training Science teachers for secondary schools.
Our Science programme covers the skills and knowledge that are required to teach the three science subjects: Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
This breadth to our training will widen the opportunities for you to obtain a teaching role in a future school of your choice as in most schools, all three science subjects are taught at Key Stage 3 (11-14). Some schools do offer the opportunity to teach and specialise in a specific science subject at Key Stage 4 (14-16) and A Level but not all do.
Therefore, this programme will enable you to be prepared for any type of science teaching that you are required to teach once you start your teaching career.
As part of the PGCE element of this course you will write two assignments which are related to your specialism in science.
One assignment at Masters’ level is about the use of metacognition strategies in the teaching of your subject and the other Masters’ level assignment will involve a classroom research based focus in science.
On this programme, you will develop teaching skills needed for Science such as effective questioning, how to give feedback, modelling and dealing with misconceptions across all three science subjects.
You will be encouraged to engage with the materials from organisations such as the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics and Royal Society for Chemistry and incorporate their resources into your lessons.
You will be shown how to conduct risk assessments for practical activities in your lessons. You will also learn how to conduct key practical activities and how you ensure that learning is taking place during the practical sessions too.
Our Science programme is structured around (i) formal sessions from the SCITT Science Subject Tutors/trainers and (ii) the subject knowledge that you will receive from your school mentors who work alongside you in the classroom.
In your placement school with the guidance and support from your mentors, you will develop the subject knowledge needed to teach successfully in your placement schools.
In addition, you will have seven Science SCITT Subject Knowledge days which are led by a range of subject specialists and excellent classroom practitioners who are teaching in our partnership schools.
You will also be assigned a Science SCITT Tutor who will work closely with you. They will observe you teach at least four times during the year. They are specialists so their understanding of teaching the Science curriculum is comprehensive.