Return to Teaching

Preparing you to come back to teaching in a primary school, or if you're looking to move from secondary to primary school teaching.

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Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    March

  • Location

    Newport

  • Campus Code

    C

Fees

The course will enable you to familiarise yourself with the new professional standards for teaching and leadership, develop a range of behaviour management strategies, and to develop and enhance your digital competency skills in the classroom.

DESIGNED FOR

If you're in regular supply work and looking to obtain a long-term or permanent teaching appointment, the Returning to Teaching course will give you the confidence to apply for a permanent teaching post

Career Paths

  • Secondary School Teacher
  • Primary School Teacher
  • Working with children in a range of settings

      (e.g museums, libraries, outdoor learning environments)

Skills Taught

  • Leadership
  • Digital Competence

Course Highlights

Placement Opportunities

Each member of the course completes 10 days or equivalent working in schools, in either a voluntarily or paid position.

Outstanding Facilities

We have a number of dedicated simulation classrooms at USW where you will be able to engage with a range of current resources.

Interactive Learning

Study with other qualified teachers and will review, enhance, and consolidate your skills, knowledge, and understanding of successful practice in primary education.

Module Overview

The 20-credit course covers all areas of learning and experience in simulated classrooms in the university. Curriculum, pedagogical approaches, assessment, management, and resourcing are discussed as integral aspects of classroom practice and the course provides an opportunity to explore recent developments, reforms, and innovations.

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

The course is delivered one day per week over 10 weeks. The University sessions will take place on the Newport campus each Wednesday for 10 weeks beginning in March.

Lectures are delivered by a range of university academics and guest lecturers from local primary schools, with each session focusing on a particular area of the primary curriculum or school environment.

Placements

In addition to the 10 days in University, each member of the course completes 10 days or equivalent working in schools, in either a voluntarily or paid position. The classroom experience is undertaken as an opportunity to develop confidence, skills and understanding.

To complete the course successfully a pass in the assignment is required. The assignment is a reflective log based upon the ten days in school.

Facilities

We have a number of dedicated simulation classrooms at USW where you will be able to engage with a range of current resources.

Teaching staff

  • Sallyann Seaward, (course leader).

There is an open-door policy on this course which enables professionals to engage in constructive discussions and to return with confidence to a primary classroom.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

Qualified Teacher Status (primary or secondary) and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on the Child Workforce and Child Barring List. 

Additional requirements include:

Please upload the following to your online application:

  • Evidence of your DfES Number – official letter from the teaching council
  • Reference on institution/company letter headed paper

International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.

English language requirements

International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.

Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.

If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.

If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

We're here to help

Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Busaries Alumni Discount

Careers and Employability

Possible career paths

Previous students have noted that it is the group discussions which take place amongst like-minded professionals which really enhance the course experience.

Potential careers include Primary School teaching and working with primary aged children in a range of alternative educational settings e.g museums, libraries, outdoor learning environments.

Careers Support

The University’s Career Services offers a range of advice and guidance to students, and references to the services available to all listed at southwales.ac.uk/careers will be added to the course website by default. However, if there are other important course or subject specific initiatives run at local a level, there is an opportunity to add further details here. Whether this includes connecting with professionals, industry experts or mentors, or strategies to enhance their competitiveness and aspirations in the job market, further details will provide prospects with the confidence, encouragement, and motivation to commit to applying. 

Additional Costs

As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.

How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

International admissions

Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.