Design Strategy - Published Work

6D2 - How my work is communicated to a relevant audience through being published. 


As well as going to visit the banners and the school, my work has since been published across a number of social media platforms by the University. Including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and the University Website. 

Design Strategy - Whitecote Banners

6D2, 6D2 - How my work is communicated to a relevant audience through being published. 

A brief I carried out last year was to design a series of banners, representing Whitecote Primary School's ASPIRE awards. My designs were chosen as the winning banners and were finally professionally printed and hung up in the entrance of their school. The other week I went to visit the school and was able to see my designs in real life. 

 Whilst I was at the school, I was able to have a meeting with the head of their work experience and discuss volunteering as an option next year, a mixture of in the classroom and design work.

 A possibility of further work also came about, to design a new school logo, as well as banners and signage for the outside of their school. The headteacher said she would discuss this further with the school council and get them to write a brief for me.

PPP3 - First Session

6B2, 6C2

In this first session we looked at our issues/problems/anxieties within our careers, in our final year and also beyond graduation.

I looked at the issue of interviews, as this is important right now, due to upcoming Postgraduate interviews for teacher training. Within the issues of interviewing theres is;

- Confidence

- Personality

- Standing out/Making an impression

- Answering Questions

- Interview Preparation

Others wrote in response to the issue;

- Personality is important and to just be yourself.

- Everyone is in the same boat

- Getting help from University

- Getting the questions to suit you

What I took away from this activity was that to help overcome the issues surrounding interviews was to;

- Be Prepared

- Be Yourself

- Practice

We chose the most pressing issue to be fear of rejection, looking at the issue from all different angles. Our solution we came up with was to create a trending hashtag, encouraging young creatives to share their stories of rejection, showing how they got to where they are now. 

Design Strategy - PGCE Courses

6A2, 6B2 - Demonstrating an understanding on the different possible courses.

Chester 

• Critical understanding of pedagogy, assessment and curriculum
• Critical knowledge, understanding and skills in primary age phases and subjects
• Critical knowledge and understanding of wider professional issues, e.g. behaviour management and inclusive practice
• Enrichment opportunities
• At least 120 days of school-based learning.
• Ofsted Outstanding

Wolverhampton

• Our Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in Primary Education provides a high standard of training for those preparing to take up a teaching post in the primary school sector. The course complies with the statutory guidance from the Department for Education for Initial Teacher Training courses.
• The PGCE in Primary Education is specifically designed to ensure that those who are successful will be recommended for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) - the professional award required by all those who wish to teach in a maintained school.
• You will focus on the teaching of the National Curriculum for primary schools and specialise in teaching Key Stages 1 and 2 whilst also having valuable opportunities to experience alternative educational settings such as Early Years, Secondary, SEND and transition.
• Successful completion of the course will lead to recommendation for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), along with 60 credits at Master’s level.

North Shropshire Teaching Alliance

• The North Shropshire Teaching School Alliance is a successful partnership of local schools that collaborate and support each other to aim to provide an effective education for every child within the Alliance.   The core membership is currently made up of 19 schools across North Shropshire.

• Teaching Schools are centres of excellence for the training and development of the team around the child: governors, school leaders, teachers, teaching assistants, administrative staff, and maintenance staff - anybody who works in an education environment.

• The Teaching School promotes, enables and facilitates partnership working across the Alliance to support each school in meeting the needs of its own children; thus aiming to improve outcomes for every child within the Alliance.  

• St. Peter's CE Primary and Nursery School is proud to be recognised as a National Teaching School and lead school for the North Shropshire Teaching School Alliance.

Design Strategy - Teaching Routes

6A2, 6B2 - Undertaking research into the different available routes into teaching, seeing which would be best for me.

There are two routes into teaching. One is based at a university; the other is to train on the job. The first route means you get a qualification and then get a job. The second route means you get a job and then get a qualification. Independent schools are interested in academically strong undergraduates and graduates with a good degree relevant to the subject they will teach. 

If you want to work in the independent sector you can apply for a teaching job without teaching qualifications and, having got the job, then get trained in your school. Most graduate trainees want to gain a teaching qualification that has currency across sectors and countries. Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) gained while working in the independent or state maintained sector is transferable between sectors. 

There are a number of recognised routes to gain Qualified Teacher Status, amongst them the most common are:

• School Direct training on the job
• higher education institution based or distance learning courses
• Most Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) will also give QTS but not all, so do check
• QTS allows you to teach in schools across the sectors. If you want to do this and take a PGCE course, the course must also give you QTS.

Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) Year

Once you have gained Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), you become a Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT). You will continue your training as an NQT for a year. Most schools in the independent sector and all schools in the state sector expect you to pass this NQT Induction year to be a fully qualified teacher.