
What we offer
Our Preparing To Teach Programme (ITT Provision)
Part one duration:
As a teacher training provider, part one of our provision is through a hybrid programme of in person workshops and pre-recorded webinars and interactive tasks. This programme enables graduates to master the knowledge and skills required to deliver high quality teaching and learning based on how learning happens; using research informed pedagogy.. Behaviour management, safeguarding, planning and assessment aspects are also covered to support graduates whilst they are in schools.
Part two duration:
Graduates undertake a PGCE with a university and continue to work in a salaried role with a school to obtain QTS.
Subject Knowledge Enhancement Courses: New Pathway Programme
This course will transform your career, enabling teachers to deliver computer science at key stage 3, 4, and 5 . Dedicated subject specialist providing deep computational knowledge and skills through a hybrid programme of online and face to face person provision. High-quality schemes of learning come with this package for all secondary years, teachers taking this course are able to select topics from lessons which have been planned based on how learning happens.
*Government bursary funding maybe available, for more information visit
https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/
8 weeks £1200
12 weeks £1800
16 weeks £2400
* Component content shared below is not an exhaustive list and will be dependent on duration of the pathway chosen.
Component one:
Logic gates and truth tables
Binary to hexadecimal
Denary to Binary
Binary to Denary
Binary addition
Binary addition
Binary subtraction
Trace tables
Mantissa and exponent
Two’s compliment
DeMorgan’s laws
Calculating available IP Address
Karnaugh maps
Component two:
Programming concepts
Object Oriented theory
Java programming skills
Python programming skills
Databases
SQL, PL/SQL
Component three:
Von Neumann Architecture
Harvard Architecture
Computer Performance
Fetch, Decode, Interrupt, Execute
Recursion
Tree traversal algorithm (including Depth first, Breadth-first, In, Pre and Post order)
Graph traversal (including Dijkstra’s Algorithm, A star)
Vectors (including calculating dot product)
Sorting algorithms (including Quick, Insertion, Bubble, Merge)
Searching Algorithms
Big O notation
Networks
Backus Naur Form
Teaching and learning packages:
Lesson resources for A level and GCSE computer science courses, suitable for all examination boards.