This course will give you everything you need to start your journey to becoming an outstanding teacher of Business. You will analyse and evaluate different approaches to teaching Business, framed by topics that are taught at KS4 and KS5. We use the areas of finance, marketing and human resources to enable you to plan, teach, assess, and reflect on current practice, and as such, begin to help you develop these crucial skills.

The course looks in detail at different Business syllabi, as well as looking at the skills needed to teach at KS5. The contextual nature of Business teaching is central to the Business course; we will equip you with the skills and organisation needed to be a resourceful, self-aware practitioner, so that you can bring to life Business teaching in your future classroom.

Bishop Challoner Training School, in partnership with Alliance schools (BCTSA), is an accredited provider of school-based teacher training in Birmingham and across the West Midlands.

You will be in school 4 days a week where you will be fully involved in all aspects of a teacher’s work. One day a week you will have your pedagogical  training, which will provide a mixture of specific Subject Studies and more general Professional Studies sessions.

To enrich your professional practice and develop your expertise you will complete 2 PGCE assignments, which will contribute 60 credits towards a Master’s degree.

You will be in your school from day one.  At the beginning of the year you will observe expert practitioners, moving towards leading small parts of a lesson and gradually building up to teach whole lessons. You will receive the support of school-based mentors, as well as members of the BCTSA Central Team and Subject Tutors.