This course will enable you to start to become an outstanding and well-rounded Geography teacher with a breadth of pedagogical experience, enhancing the capabilities of students in developing core geographical skills ranging from critical thinking and conducting fieldwork, to integrating GIS into everyday practice.

Training to be a Geography teacher, you will learn how to motivate and engage students to understand and analyse their personal geographies. You will consider and practice different approaches to lesson design that builds curiosity and utilises strategies designed by leading experts in the Geographical community to nurture students with a deepening subject knowledge, critical thinking skills and self-awareness of the progression in their learning across the key stages.

Cross-curricular skills such as literacy and oracy are embedded throughout the course to enhance the communication skills that are crucial. The course will highlight key geographical themes such as migration, dynamic coastal systems and hazard management and how these engaging concepts can be studied and assessed via increasingly complex dialogues and critiques.

Bishop Challoner Training School, in partnership with Alliance schools (BCTSA), is an accredited provider of school-based teacher training in Birmingham and across the West Midlands.

You will be in school 4 days a week where you will be fully involved in all aspects of a teacher’s work. One day a week you will have your pedagogical  training, which will provide a mixture of specific Subject Studies and more general Professional Studies sessions.

To enrich your professional practice and develop your expertise you will complete 2 PGCE assignments, which will contribute 60 credits towards a Master’s degree.

You will be in your school from day one.  At the beginning of the year you will observe expert practitioners, moving towards leading small parts of a lesson and gradually building up to teach whole lessons. You will receive the support of school-based mentors, as well as members of the BCTSA Central Team and Subject Tutors.

Subject Tutors.