Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching

The STADIO Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching will equip graduates with educational theory and methodology to teach the required subject content knowledge and enable them to demonstrate competence and responsibility as academically and professionally qualified beginner teachers. The PGCE (Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching) accredits a professional teaching programme that ‘caps’ an undergraduate degree or an approved diploma. It offers entry-level initial professional preparation for undergraduate degree or diploma holders who wish to develop focused knowledge and skills as classroom teachers in one chosen subject in the Senior Phase and one chosen subject in the Further Education and Training (FET). To this end, the qualification requires a specific depth and specialisation of knowledge, together with practical skills and teaching experience to enable successful students to apply their learning as beginner teachers in schools in varying contexts.

The programme will build on subject knowledge content, together with the principles, practices and methods of teaching, and workplace experience, to enable successful students to apply their learning as beginner teachers to implement the National Curriculum Statements. They will have a wide range of theoretical understanding, competencies and practical skills to deal with a diverse range of learners in schools in a wide range of learning situations and contexts. They will reflect critically on their own practice and demonstrate initiative and responsibility in both an academic and professional teaching environment.
The PGCE (Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching) will allow the student who completes the qualification successfully to be registered with the South African Council for Educators (SACE) as a fully qualified educator with sound knowledge and expertise in one subject in the Senior Phase and one in the FET.

 

SCHOOL-BASED TEACHING PRACTICE

Teaching practice is an integral part of teacher education that provides you with the opportunity to experience the excitement of a classroom environment and contributes to your professional development as a future teacher. Teaching practice is compulsory in the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme. Various teaching practice assessment methods are used during this time to evaluate the student, including reports from the school, the School of Education (SOE) teaching practice assessor, the school mentors, and your eventual Portfolio of Evidence. In addition, the SOE monitors and verifies the placement of all students at schools.

It is the responsibility of the student to arrange for leave from an employer for the required number of weeks for teaching practice in schools. A student can only commence with teaching practice once the school placement has been verified by the Teaching Practice Department of SOE.

Please note the following:
You have to complete the 8 weeks of TP in a school under the supervision of mentor teachers as part of your study. You are required to attend the school from Monday to Friday for the full duration of the school day and assist with assigned extra curricular activities. Transport costs to and from schools are to the account of the student.

 

If you are already employed at a school, your school must meet our minimum requirement, if you don’t have a suitably qualified mentor teacher(s) in your school who can act as a mentor teacher, you will have to spend your teaching practice weeks in another school. If you are employed in a school you are required to provide a letter of employment from the school to the Teaching Practice Department.

The compulsory eight-week school-based teaching practice component in the one year programme consists of the following:

• Three weeks in a school in semester one

• Five consecutive weeks in a school in semester two

The compulsory eight-week school-based teaching practice component in the two year programme consists of the following:

• Three weeks in a school in semester one of year one

• Five consecutive weeks in a school in semester two of year two

The compulsory eight-week school-based teaching practice component in the 18 month programme consists of the following:

• Three weeks in a school in semester two of the programme

• Five consecutive weeks in a school in semester three of the programme

Students are required to teach in all their registered subject specialisations in the Senior Phase (grades 7 – 9) and Further Education and Training Phase (grades 10 – 12).

 

FURTHER STUDY OPPORTUNITIES

Once you have passed the Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching, you may continue your studies towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Education or pursue a Bachelor of Education Honours degree or an Advanced Diploma in Education. For more information, please contact STADIO.

 

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THE ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR THE POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION IN SENIOR PHASE AND FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING TEACHING ARE: 

 

• an appropriate Bachelor's degree (NQF Level 6/7); OR

• an appropriate 360 credit National Diploma (NQF Level 6).

 

An appropriate diploma or degree will include sufficient disciplinary learning in appropriate academic fields to enable the development of subject specialisations. To be eligible for particular school subject specialisations in the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching), students must have passed at least one of the desired school subjects at second year or NQF Level 6 for the Senior Phase and the other desired school subject at third year or NQF Level 7 for the Further Education and Training.An appropriate three-year and 360 credit National Diplomas offered by accredited public and private higher education institutions in approved fields of study may also be appropriate for admission into PGCE. Refer to list of these approved fields as specified in Appendix E of the Policy on Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications (MRTEQ). You may download the PGCE Admission Selection Requirements document on our website (Under the Entry Requirements section of the PGCE qualification).

Please note that Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) qualifications do not enable entry into the PGCE programme. In addition, a prospective student’s conversational competence in an African Language as well as competence in computer proficiency will be assessed upfront on application, and if necessary, students will be required to complete additional modules to reach the required levels of competence.

You may download the Additional Application Requirements document HERE for full details.

 

Teaching Specialisations in the Senior Phase (SP):

• Afrikaans First Additional Language

• Afrikaans Home Language

• Creative Arts

• Economic and Management Sciences

• English First Additional Language

• English Home Language

• isiZulu First Additional Language

• isiZulu Home Language

• Life Orientation

• Mathematics

• Natural Sciences

• Sepedi Home Language

• Social Sciences

• Technology

 

Teaching Specialisations in the Further Education and Training (FET):

• Accounting 

• Afrikaans First Additional Language

• Afrikaans Home Language

• Agricultural Science

• Business Studies 

• Computer Applications Technology 

• Dramatic Arts

• Engineering Graphics and Design

• English First Additional Language

• English Home Language

• Geography

• History

• Information Technology

• isiZulu First Additional Language

• isiZulu Home Language

• Life Orientation

• Life Sciences

• Mathematics

• Maths Literacy

• Music

• Physical Science

• Sepedi Home Language

• Tourism

• Visual Arts

 

Your choice of electives is based on the subjects you have studied in your Bachelor’s degree or 360 credit National Diploma. To be eligible for particular school subject specialisations in the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching), students must have passed at least one of the desired school subjects or subject/s aligned to that school subject at second year or NQF Level 6 for the Senior Phase and the other desired school subject or subject/s aligned to that school subject at third year or NQF Level 7 for the Further Education and Training band.

Please study carefully the admission requirements of the specialisations which have been outlined in PGCE Admission Selection Requirements document before you choose your electives. The choice of teaching specialisations must be approved by the relevant academic authority structures. You will be advised which electives have been approved - it is important to note that your choice may not be approved and the academic approvers may advise alternative electives.

 

You may download the PGCE Admission Selection Requirements document HERE and submit upon application.

In addition, applicants will be required to submit a Teaching Affidavit with their application. You may download it HERE and submit upon application.