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Apprenticeship - Teacher Degree Apprenticeship Primary Education (3-11)

This programme is designed to enable you to train to become a qualified teacher for primary education (3-11), working in schools in England sponsored through the apprenticeship route.



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Course Overview

By studying for this award with the University of Cumbria, you will be joining an institution that can trace its roots in teacher education back to 1891 at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education at Ambleside and to 1964 at St Martin’s College at Lancaster. We are proud of this heritage, and proud that we continue to make a significant contribution to teacher education.

Your programme will help you to build your theoretical understanding of the complexity of teaching and learning, whilst at the same time help you to develop your practical professional skills in classroom settings. You will find a significant focus within the course that is devoted to the interplay between theory and practice, and we hope that you will recognise how this combination will contribute to helping you become the best teacher you can be.

On this course you will...

  • Develop as a pivotal professional in children and young people’s lives who inspires and enables all to learn and progress in your specialist phase and/or subject.
  • Develop a well-defined teacher identity that enables you to make evidence-informed decisions in the best interest of children and young people, working as part of a professional team and autonomously.
  • Take responsibility for your own learning, building the skills, knowledge and understanding required to be an effective teacher rooted in a commitment to professional development and scholarly study.
  • Grow with flexibility and resilience, adapting to the needs of children and young people as well as the tensions of the profession.
  • Effectively challenge and dismantle disadvantage, empowering children, and young people through the teaching of your specialist phase and/or subject.

Course Structure

What you will learn

You will be learning continuously on your apprenticeship and will have three formal placements where you will enact the learning that you have done up to that point. You will be supported by a mentor on placement who will help you to set targets that build on your prior learning in relation to your performance on placement.

Modules use formative and summative assessment so that your progress can be evaluated in a structured and constructive way.  Formative assessments are designed so that feedback can be provided prior to the submission of the final, summative assessment.  

When you are on placement, you will be assessed against Staged Expectations. These are milestones in your learning which relate to everything you have learned prior to the placement starting. On your final placement, you will be assessed against the Teachers’ Standards. You can expect to be involved in this process with your mentor, who will help you to set developmental targets on a weekly basis during your placements. This will help you to build your ability to self-assess and be an active agent in your professional development. A teacher is expected to demonstrate consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct throughout their career.  

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