Please note: Applications for BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS English medium are no longer being considered for September 2022 entry, please contact Admissions with any queries. We are still accepting applications for the Welsh medium Addysg Gynradd gyda Statws Athro Cymwysedig.
The BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS degree is a three-year undergraduate course that leads to the award of an honours degree and qualified teacher status. This degree can also be partly studied through the medium of Welsh.
The course aims to prepare student teachers to be highly-skilled, confident, critically reflective and innovative practitioners who are committed to life-long professional learning and the education of young people.
Graduates will develop the values and dispositions that will enable them to be highly employable and ready to meet the demands of the classroom.
Unfortunately, we are unable to consider deferred applications for this course.
Related courses:
BA (Hons) Primary Education Studies
BA (Hons) Early Years Education and Professional Practice (with EYPS)
Course information on this page relates to 2022 entry.
The university and school-based teaching and learning opportunities have been designed to complement one another in order to maximise student progress. The methods used emphasise and facilitate student teachers critical development skills, and cohere around the integration of research and enquiry, practice and theory. In both University and school settings, student teachers will normally experience both tutor-led learning and self-directed methods of learning, developing increasing independence and reflection as they progress through the course. There will be regular opportunities throughout the course for student teachers to review their personal progress with their tutors and take responsibility for planning and executing their own learning.
In university, the on-campus and online learning and teaching methods used within modules may include lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials, all supported via use of Cardiff Metropolitans virtual learning environment. In many of the modules, the learning and teaching strategies that will be used will be those with the strongest research evidence of impact on student teacher learning and pupil attainment e.g. microteaching, clinical practice and feedback, metacognition and self-regulation, direct teaching and flipped learning.
School-based learning and teaching
In the first year, Clinical Practice is included within an academic module and student teachers will not be expected to engage in independent teaching at this stage. This is to ensure an incremental model of personal and professional development.
In years two and three, student teachers will be scaffolded by team teaching approaches as well as engaging in independent teaching and they will be required to take increasing responsibility for teaching a class, or classes, independently over a sustained and substantial period. Clinical Practice will include directed time for Research and Enquiry; independent and team teaching; and planning, preparation and assessment. In addition, student teachers will receive fifteen training days led by Lead Partnership Schools/Alliances. During these days, a variety of teaching and learning approaches will be employed including examination of school documentation, learning rounds, video-stimulated reflective dialogue, learning walks, learning conversations with pupils or teachers and book scrutiny.
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