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PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
Royal Academy of Dance
Full Time
AUG
1 year
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PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
Royal Academy of Dance
Full time
AUG
1 year
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If you want to teach dance in UK secondary education, then our full-time Postgraduate Certificate in Education: Dance Teaching programme is for you. It provides the opportunity to acquire the expertise to become a dance specialist teacher for the 11-19 curriculum, and UK government recognition as a teacher.
Delivery
The programme leads to two awards: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) awarded by the RAD as an Initial Teacher Training Accredited Provider and the Postgraduate Certificate in Education: Dance Teaching, validated by the University of Bath.
Since this programme was launched in 2003, we have had consistently high employment rates and some of our former trainees are now working in our partnership schools and colleges in London and the surrounding counties and have gone on to take our own MA in Education (Dance Teaching).
The programme comprises of a minimum of 12 weeks on site at the RAD in London and 24 weeks in professional placements within schools or colleges.
Modules located at RAD headquarters are delivered through taught sessions including practical sessions, lectures and seminars as well as group and individual tutorials. Whilst on placement in schools and colleges our students work with School-based Tutors, who are dance specialists able to provide support for planning, teaching and self-reflection.
Programme content
There are three interrelated areas of study across the year:
Assessment
You will be required to complete written assignments, give presentations and be assessed in teaching. Throughout the programme, you will be continually assessed against the Standards for Qualified Teacher Status which must be met in order to qualify as a teacher.
Award
The programme leads to two awards: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and the Postgraduate Certificate in Education: Dance Teaching (PGCE: DT). Graduates from this programme may be eligible for registration as a dance teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance.
Applicants must hold: an undergraduate degree (with a minimum classification of 2.1) in dance or a related subject with a substantial dance component. a standard equivalent to a grade 4 in the GCSE examinations in English and Mathematics; obtain satisfactory enhanced DBS, post application.
Students living in
Domestic
£7,665 per year
Students from Domestic
£7,665 for the duration of the programme; £120 registration fee on enrolment; £60 audition fee is payable if you are invited to audition for this programme.
Students from Other UK
This is the fee you pay if the University is not in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£7,665 per year
Students from EU
£7,665 for the duration of the programme; £120 registration fee on enrolment; £60 audition fee is payable if you are invited to audition for this programme.
£7,665 per year
Students from International
£7,665 for the duration of the programme; £120 registration fee on enrolment; £60 audition fee is payable if you are invited to audition for this programme.
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