PG Cert and Professional Recognition in Engineering STEM

Who is the programme for?

• Early Years Teachers
• Primary Teachers
• Secondary Teachers

This Post Graduate Certificate and Professional Recognition course take place across 2 modules, over a 9 month period, therefore allowing you to develop a critical and reflective approach to your practice. Teachers will develop their skills and confidence to deliver meaningful STEM activities, through engagement with at least one of our one-day CPD courses. This is extremely important, as highlighted in the recent Skills 4.0 paper (SDS), as we focus on encouraging meta-skills development in teachers who can support that same development in their own pupils. They will work alongside and develop professional networks with industry professionals and academics, as they critically analyse and reflect on their practice. They will complete an action research project, using a Primary Engineer programme, which allows them to create and embed innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning. The results of these research projects indicate a huge positive impact across many areas, such as creativity, problem-solving, pedagogy, collaboration and careers-related learning.

What’s in it for me?

Enhanced understanding of how engineering can positively impact on children’s learning. The need for STEM expertise is in demand as Government and industry look to teachers to address the skills shortage and develop the next generation of STEM professionals and technicians. These course outcomes align closely with key aims for Scotland’s 5 year STEM strategy, the STEM education and Training Strategy and Developing the Young Workforce Programme.

Teachers will have the opportunity to:

• increase their understanding of the STEM ‘landscape’ through critical engagement with research.
• develop an understanding of their role within the STEM landscape.
• undertake critical reflection and evaluation of their current practice.
• develop a critical evaluation of the impact of project-based learning.
• increase their understanding of what engineering is and how it fits into the broader STEM area.
• establish stronger links with their peers, academics and local engineering industry to enhance STEM learning.
• develop pedagogical STEM strategies through engagement with research
• carry out action research that has a proven direct and meaningful impact on pedagogy, pupils, and wider community.

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