Secondary Art and Design PGCE with QTS

University of Chester

Share and inspire the exploration of Art and Design within the classroom, and the potential futures you could inspire through this engaging and practical course. Teaching is an extremely rewarding and challenging career. Our course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher.

We aim to nurture teachers who are passionate about the development of their own and their pupils' learning. During the course, you will learn how to encourage young people’s understanding of art and design through your subject specialism.

We encourage Art and Design trainees to be:

enthusiastic and confident in the classroom 

pedagogically skilful and adaptable 

specialists in the teaching of Art and Design: demonstrating practical skills and a knowledge of subject history

able to see their subject in the context of the whole curriculum

competent in a number of areas that cross secondary school curriculum boundaries

able to work as part of a team .