PGCE Geography

After you've completed your first five weeks of University-based training, you'll start your first eight-week placement. This will give you the chance to put into practice what you've learnt in a collaborative working environment. You'll work closely with your school-based subject mentor. In January, you'll complete a second placement in a different school. This will help you deepen your knowledge of how students learn, and extend your practice in helping that learning, in a new context. This long placement - split across stages two and three, from January until June - gives you the chance to develop your practice in a school and with pupils you will get to know really well. This offers an opportunity to make a positive impact on progress in that school.