Lifelong Learning Teacher Education
The department provide programmes of initial teacher education and professional development for teachers, lecturers and trainers. Students are based locally and nationally. The department is located mainly at the Avery Hill Campus with some teaching on the Greenwich Campus.
Our lifelong learning initial teacher training programmes are available for students and staff who wish to work or already work in the Lifelong Learning Sector (LLS). This includes further education colleges, sixth-form colleges, universities, adult education centres, art colleges, health care and community organisations, the public services and a wide range of commercial and voluntary organisations.
Since September 2007, the department has been offering qualifications for skills for life tutors and teachers in the sector. These programmes (literacy/ESOL/numeracy) are aimed at ‘in-service’ tutors and trainers who are employed in the sector who do not yet have a subject specialist qualification. The level 5 additional diplomas in teaching English (literacy), English (ESOL) and maths (numeracy) can be studied as part of a ‘concurrent’ full-time endorsed PGCE/PCE qualification or via part-time attendance. Either route facilitates a specialist qualification for skills for life tutors.
The department was inspected by Ofsted in May 2011 and all provision was graded ‘good’. Inspectors identified many areas strength including: a highly qualified and skilled university team valued by trainees for its experienced practitioners, good support and effective tutoring, good subject support enabling trainees to make good progress, and effective training and assessment. Inspectors also commented on the high levels of personal and subject support trainees receive from their mentors.
Staff profiles
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