Queen Margaret University School Experience Programme Handbook
Introduction
Welcome to the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Queen Margaret University (QMU) School Experience Placement Handbook.
This Handbook provides an overview of partnership and placement arrangements for the QMU ITE programmes and the processes and support mechanisms involved in placement provision. The Handbook is intended for ITE students, host schools and the supporting teachers (SBEs) and University-Based Educators (UBEs). Programme and Placement information in the handbook includes:
- Partnership between schools and university
- An overview of ITE programmes & placements
- Organisation of School Experience processes & procedures
- Preparing students for School Experience
- Assessment processes and paperwork
- Contact and support mechanisms
- Roles and responsibilities during School Experience
School Experience is a compulsory part of the ITE learning process. It allows students the opportunity to gain experience of practice-based teaching and learning within a classroom setting. Both the host School and the University have a joint responsibility in ensuring that students are given appropriate opportunities to gain the required knowledge and understanding, skills and abilities expected of a student teacher for the appropriate stage of their professional development within the school context and their ITE University Programme.
School Experience enables the acquisition of new knowledge and skills as well as the application, consolidation and reflection on learning gained within the University environment. School and University-based Educators, working in collaboration, therefore have a crucial part to play in supporting students’ progress to meet the General Teaching Council, Scotland (GTCS) Standard forProvisional Registration (SPR). The success of School Experience is highly dependent on a clear and supportive interchange between ITE students, university, the local authority and schools. All Placement forms are in easily downloadable format, from the following link:Welcome to the PGDE (Secondary) Home Economics Website
