PGCE Secondary Science - Biology

Make a difference to pupils’ lives by becoming a Secondary teacher through our highly regarded teacher training course.
Learn from staff who are experts in a range of educational theories – in an institution that has been training outstanding teachers for over 70 years.
Become a knowledgeable and resilient education professional who has developed your own resources, techniques and individual teaching style.
What you’ll learn has been co-created with our partner schools to meet their needs, placing you in an excellent position for future employment.
Skilled teachers make a difference to the lives of those they teach. This teacher training course is designed to enable you to become a qualified, passionate teacher of Science in Secondary schools.
We encourage you to embrace the professional qualities and attributes that successful teachers need, including:
the ability to inspire, engage and motivate learners in your subject
a commitment to inclusion and your pupils’ wellbeing
impeccable personal and professional conduct, and
the ability to reflect on your own progress and continue to develop.
With our support, you’ll become an empathetic and skilled teaching professional who is responsive to the needs of all pupils. You’ll have a positive impact on those you teach – from the beginning of your training within schools.

Science in its broad and varied nature has the scope to engage, inspire and motivate young people to question the world around them. Science can challenge and excite the mind, igniting a deep and evocative curiosity in us all.
At the heart of our Science subject sessions, we facilitate and encourage you to ‘bring to life’ your science knowledge and support you to communicate often complex and abstract ideas into something familiar and tangible to your learners. Developing a sound understanding of how young people learn and perceive science will help you to adopt approaches that help pupils to know and remember more.
We encourage you to become a critical thinker through sessions that promote discussion and collaborative practice. You’ll draw on established theory to develop deeper thinking about how to teach Science, and draw on key literature to explain why ‘hands-on’ experiences are an effective way to learn and understand science.
The programme is led by academic staff and supported by a range of experts from the Institute of Physics (IoP), the Association of Science Education (ASE), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the AQA examination board and colleagues in our partner schools.

In order to apply you'll need to have completed, or be in the final year of a UK degree (or equivalent qualification). You're required to have a good honours degree with at least 50% suitable science content for the route you're applying to do, which you should state clearly on your application.

You'll also need GCSE passes at grade 4/C or above or recognised equivalents in English and Maths.

If you don't have the required subject knowledge, you may be required to take a Subject Knowledge Enhancement course.