We aim to develop teachers who operate as artists in education, empowering young people to achieve Drama of real quality, and building confidence in their own abilities as dramatists in the broadest sense of the word.

The programme integrates process and performance, teaching both through and about the art form, making connections between pupils' work and theatre, film and popular culture. We expect you to become involved in school productions and extra curricular provision for Drama in schools.

What you study

As well as focusing on the Drama curriculum in the first three years of secondary education, the programme covers Drama and performing arts courses for pupils from 14 to 19. We pay special attention to the relationship between English and Drama in the National Curriculum.

In College-based sessions, you engage in practical Drama at your own level and then analyse this from the perspective of participant and teacher. Starting to teach grows out of this, coupled with you observing Drama in schools, re-visiting the work of key practitioners, and beginning to develop the conceptual underpinnings of classroom practice.

School-based tutors are heads of department or experienced Drama specialists. In addition, you will be supported by alumni as ‘buddies’.

In the autumn term, you have an intensive introduction to Drama in education at the College and begin weekly induction visits to your first teaching practice school. As the term develops, you spend four days a week in school beginning to develop teaching skills, and return to Goldsmiths on the fifth day for support in lesson planning, managing behaviour, and assessing and recording pupils’ progress.

At the start of the spring term there is a similar pattern of College-based work, with an induction visit to your second teaching practice school. This enables you to build on everything you have learned in the first term and to plan for your second block of school experience. You then spend four days a week in this school until the spring half-term.

After this you are in school five days a week gaining a sense of what it means to be a full-time Drama teacher. In the final weeks you return to College and complete your Career Entry Development Profile. You also engage in a review and evaluation of the programme as a whole.

Register your interest

If you register your interest in this programme we will keep you informed about open days and send you relevant further information.