MFL Extension Course for the TDA
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Are you interested in teaching modern languages but are finding it hard to gain a place on initial teacher training because you don't have a second teaching language?
Pre-initial teacher training modern languages Extension Courses are of approximately three months’ duration, full time and intensive. Courses are specifically designed to help graduates with one teaching language develop a second language to teach up to Key Stage 3 (pupils aged 11-14). Course participants will be paid a bursary of £225 per week for 13 weeks whilst on the course.
On completion, you will be expected to undertake initial teacher training on a secondary modern languages course leading to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Further details:
- Extension courses are suitable for graduates with one foreign language but little or no French or German.
- Courses start in May 2008.
- They are 14 week, full time, taught courses with a high level of individual support and the opportunity to work in small groups.
- There are up to twenty-five places on each course.
- Participants will receive a bursary of £225 per week.
- Participants will undertake a two-week structured study visit to a French or German speaking country, with travel and expenses paid.
- Participants with no prior experience of the language will receive extra tuition and support.
- Participants will develop and retain a portfolio giving evidence of their work.
Upon satisfactory completion of the course, participants will progress to initial teacher training (ITT). The extension course can be used in combination with the following ITT routes to achieve QTS, offered in the region served by the extension course:
Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) courses
Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP)
School-Centred Initial Teacher Training schemes (SCITT)
How to apply
If you think you need to go on an extension course before starting initial teacher training (ITT) you should first apply to an ITT course in one of the regions served by the extension course.
You can also contact French and German Language Extension Course providers directly.
Language Extension Courses are available at the following institutions:
University of Portsmouth (French and German)
London Metropolitan University (French)
Liverpool John Moores University (French and German)
Anglia Ruskin University (French and German)
Newcastle University (German)
University of Hull (French)
For more information on modern languages Extension Courses including case studies, and how to apply to ITT, please contact the TDA or call their Teaching Information Line on 0845 6000 991.
