Post Graduate Certificate in Education - Secondary Mathematics (G1X1)

Study PGCE Secondary Maths at the Institute of Education and benefit from highly experienced academics and consistently high employment rates.

This Postgraduate Certificate Education (PGCE) Secondary Maths course is consistently graded as good in Ofsted inspections, and leads to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), qualifying graduates to teach the 11-18 age group in secondary schools in England and Wales.

Students will be taught by experienced mathematics teachers who are all specially trained as mentors. They are a diverse and incredibly experienced community of academics with extensive school teaching and academic experience. Students will benefit from their expertise and understanding of educating and influencing policy. 

Reading recognizes that children need different ways of accessing mathematics in the way that’s most comfortable to them, and delve deep into what makes children care about maths.

Through seminars students will participate in active discussions around the key issues in teaching and our program will provide students with a wide range of techniques that they can employ in the classroom, including manipulatives in maths, outdoor maths and global maths.

In the Secondary PGCE course, students are required to carry out three placements in two different age groups - ensuring they receive a broad range of experiences. Two placements must be undertaken in a school setting but the third can be taken in a different setting - allowing students to sample teaching in an alternative environment.