This course will provide you with everything you need to start your journey to becoming an outstanding teacher of Computing. You will learn not only about teaching Computer Science, but also the wider context relating to the applications of information technology and the development of digital literacy. The course equips you to develop your students’ computational thinking and ICT capability, within and beyond the subject curriculum.

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.

As well as the BCTSA Training Days, as a Computing trainee you will have additional training from the National Centre of Computing Education (NCCE) whose Computer Science Accelerator programme is integrated into the course, enabling you to achieve a national Subject Knowledge certificate, awarded by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

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.

This course is ideally suited to graduates with computing related degrees and to those from a range of backgrounds including software development and industrial experience.

Bishop Challoner Catholic College is a Microsoft Showcase School and also the Lead School for the Birmingham and Central Midlands Computing Hub, allowing schools to access the high-quality materials and courses provided.