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What makes Personal Social Education at Worcester special?

We've designed this diploma with practitioners such as teaching assistants, SENCos, teachers, nurture group leaders and nursery practitioners in mind.

There's a growing need to support children and young people with a wide range of personal and social skills in keeping with the statutory Personal Social Health and Economic Education (PSHE Education) and Relationship and Sex Education (RSE). This diploma encourages the use of a variety of practical and creative strategies. The course addresses areas such as managing emotions, problem solving, critical thinking and decision making, as well as supporting emotional, social and behavioural development.

Through a blend of online and face-to-face teaching and learning this course supports the development of pedagogies which will enhance teachers’ and practitioners’ ability to ensure they are developing Personal Social Education (PSE) skills within their classrooms and settings.

Overview

Overview

Key features

  • The online element of the course begins in October with three days face-to-face teaching in February with completion in June.
  • All teaching takes place at the University of Worcester or at an offsite location which will be decided and issued depending on cohort need.
  • Builds confidence, knowledge and skills in all aspects of personal social education pedagogy
  • Uses a blend of online and face-to-face learning for flexibility.
  • Focuses on teaching and support strategies for teaching current issues such as mental health, online resilience, bullying and relationship education and social and emotional development.
  • Suitable for a range of educational practitioners including nurture group leaders, teachers, PSHE coordinators teaching assistants, forest school leaders and nursery educators.
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Entry requirements

What qualifications will you need?

Entry requirements

  • Experience of working with children or young people in a formal learning context with either individuals or groups or whole class.
  • Evidence of access to a professional educational setting e.g. nursery, school, and alternative setting. Confirmation required.
  • Evidence of ability to write at Level 4: either qualifications or equivalency task set by the tutor.

Other information

  • International students to have IELTS 6.5.
  • Ability to use basic word processing software and presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint and word), and ability to use search engines to support research.
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Course content

What will you study?

Study for this diploma will begin online in October with three days face-to-face teaching in February. This is a single module course which results in a university diploma at level 5. The content of the diploma will include: teaching strategies and exploration of pedagogies to effectively plan and teach PSE in a range of educational settings. It will look at the ways in which practitioners can deal with the teaching of controversial and sensitive issues within PSE. The online activities enable a personalisation to the students’ context and promotes inclusion for the practitioner as a learner and as an educator. The content will mirror current changes within personal, social and health education in England and how these can be taught effectively, as well as global issues such as mental health.

Module title

Exploring Effective Personal and Social Education
Teaching and assessment

How will you be taught?

The University places emphasis on enabling students to develop the independent learning capabilities that will equip you for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement. A mixture of independent study, teaching and academic support through the personal academic tutoring system enables you to reflect on progress and build up a profile of skills, achievements and experiences that will enable you to flourish and be successful.

Teaching

You are taught through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study and online tasks

You have an opportunity to discuss your progress with your academic tutor and access feedback on formative and summative assessment tasks

You will be taught using a range of active teaching strategies.

Contact time

You will have 3 consecutive days of face-to-face teaching as well as being expected to complete around 2 hrs independent study each week focusing on directed study tasks, online tasks and completing reading set by the tutor.

Typically, class contact time will be structured around the exploration of the specific skills required to support personal social education as developed in line with the PSHE curriculum in England as well as global agendas.

Independent self-study

In addition to the contact time, you are expected to undertake around 2 hours of personal self-study per week. Typically, this will involve researching specific aspects of pedagogical skills in delivering personal social education and preparing for the assessment element of the diploma. It will also include the completion of online tasks and set reading.

Duration

The online element of the course begins in October with three days face-to-face teaching in February with completion in June.

Timetables

Please note that whilst we have scheduled face-to-face teaching for the following dates - 9th, 10th, 11th February 2021, online tasks and reading will begin in October 2020.

Teaching staff

You will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course. The team includes tutors from the School of Education at the University of Worcester.

Teaching is informed by the research and consultancy, and 100 per cent of course lecturers have a higher education teaching qualification or are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy. You can learn more about the staff by visiting our staff profiles.

Assessment

The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assignments.  The diploma has one summative assessment which is graded and counts as the overall module grade. There is also a formative presentation task which will help you to prepare for the summative assessment.

Assessment methods include a presentation and the submission of a portfolio of evidence of pedagogical critiques.

Programme specification

For comprehensive details on the aims and intended learning outcomes of the course, and the means by which these are achieved through learning, teaching and assessment, please download the latest programme specification document.

Meet the team

You will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course.

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Victoria Pugh

Victoria joined the Institute of Education in 2017 as a lecturer and subject lead for Primary PSHE and RSE. She teaches on the undergraduate professional studies module and leads PSHE and SENDI across the undergraduate and postgraduate ITT courses. She is undergraduate cohort leader and part of the partnership team.

Prior to joining the university she spent 15 years working in primary schools both in the UK and abroad and has had experience teaching all year groups ranging from Nursery to Year 10. During her career in primary education, she has been part of a number of management teams in various roles and has spent the majority of her career as both PSHE coordinator and SENCo across the primary and secondary age phase. She worked as a Specialist Leader of Education (SLE) for PSHE creating PSHE networks and training across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Careers

Where could it take you?

This diploma offers a career-enhancing opportunity to demonstrate teaching skills, develop strengths in supporting children throughout the primary classroom and other settings with PSE skills. If successful, it will allow you to demonstrate extra qualifications that are desired for progress within the teaching and education profession as a whole.

It allows you to demonstrate how you meet essential government agendas such as supporting personal social education within schools and meet global agendas such as mental health, bullying and online resilience.

Costs

How much will it cost?

Tuition fees

The fees for 2020/21 are:

  • University of Worcester current students - £600
  • University of Worcester Alumni - £750
  • Other - £900
How to apply

How do you apply?

We would always welcome enquiries about the University Diploma in PSE

Apply for October 2020 enrolment

If you would like any further information on how to apply for this course, please contact Victoria Pugh on Victoria.pugh@worc.ac.uk

 

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Get in touch

If you have any questions, please get in touch. We're here to help you every step of the way.

 

Admissions office

admissions@worc.ac.uk
01905 855111

JJ Dadd

PSE Administrator
j.dadd@worc.ac.uk
01905 855457

Victoria Pugh

Course Leader
Victoria.pugh@worc.ac.uk
01905 542563

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