TRCN PQE
Nigeria 🇳🇬FoundationsTRCN Professional Qualifying Examination — pedagogy, literacy, numeracy, digital literacy and safeguarding for teacher registration.
📏 The real PQE is a computer-based test of 60 questions in 60 minutes with a 50% pass mark, sat in the May and November diets; the practice mock below is 40 items and deliberately untimed-friendly so it can be sat in one sitting.
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Beginner
Beginner skill
What the Council is for, who must be registered, the PQE's place in the route to a licence, and the developmental psychology a teacher uses every day.
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🔒 After lessonsTRCN & the Teaching Profession
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StartTRCN, Registration and the Law That Makes It Mandatory
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🔒 After lessonsChild Development & Learning Psychology
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How Learners Grow, and What That Changes in the Classroom
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Intermediate
Intermediate skill
The chain from the national curriculum to the check at the end of the lesson: objectives, method, materials, and managing a large class with too few books.
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🔒 After lessonsCurriculum, Instruction & Lesson Planning
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Curriculum to Lesson Plan to Delivered Lesson
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumAssessment, Measurement & Record Keeping
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PremiumMeasurement, Test Quality and the School Record
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Advanced
Advanced skill
Devices, data and online safety; the safeguarding duty and its reporting route; inclusive and equity-sensitive practice; professional reflection and CPD.
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🔒 After lessonsDigital Literacy, Safeguarding & Inclusion
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Syllabus coverage · TRCN PQE
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- The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria — statutory mandate, registration and licensing of teachers, and discipline of unprofessional conductTRCN, Registration and the Law That Makes It Mandatory →
- The TRCN Professional Qualifying Examination — format, eligibility categories, diet months and pass standardTRCN, Registration and the Law That Makes It Mandatory →
- Minimum qualification standards for teachers in Nigeria — NCE, B.Ed, and degree plus PGDE routesTRCN, Registration and the Law That Makes It Mandatory →
- The code of conduct for teachers in Nigeria and the teacher's duties to learners, parents and the professionTRCN, Registration and the Law That Makes It Mandatory →
- Educational legislation and policy — the National Policy on Education, the Universal Basic Education programme and the 9-year basic education cycleTRCN, Registration and the Law That Makes It Mandatory →
- The teaching labour market — unions, welfare, career progression and teacher supply in NigeriaTRCN, Registration and the Law That Makes It Mandatory →
- Growth and development in learners — principles of development and their classroom implicationsHow Learners Grow, and What That Changes in the Classroom →
- Cognitive and social development theories applied to teaching (Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson)How Learners Grow, and What That Changes in the Classroom →
- Individual differences — intelligence, aptitude, learning styles and their effect on instructionHow Learners Grow, and What That Changes in the Classroom →
- Motivation, attribution and interest in the classroomHow Learners Grow, and What That Changes in the Classroom →
- Adolescent behaviour, peer influence and guidance and counselling services in schoolsHow Learners Grow, and What That Changes in the Classroom →
- Learners with special needs and the fundamentals of inclusive educationHow Learners Grow, and What That Changes in the Classroom →
- Curriculum — concepts, types, the Nigerian curriculum development process and the role of NERDCCurriculum to Lesson Plan to Delivered Lesson →
- Instructional objectives — writing behavioural objectives and staging them by cognitive levelCurriculum to Lesson Plan to Delivered Lesson →
- Lesson planning — scheme of work, lesson write-up, and the selection of content, materials and activitiesCurriculum to Lesson Plan to Delivered Lesson →
- Teaching methods — teacher-centred and learner-centred methods, and choosing between lecture, discussion, demonstration, project and play methodsCurriculum to Lesson Plan to Delivered Lesson →
- Instructional materials and educational technology — selection, low-cost materials and their evaluationCurriculum to Lesson Plan to Delivered Lesson →
- Classroom management — rules, routines, time management, discipline and the learning environmentCurriculum to Lesson Plan to Delivered Lesson →
- Communication skills for teaching — questioning, explanation, reinforcement and use of the local languageCurriculum to Lesson Plan to Delivered Lesson →
- Measurement, assessment and evaluation — concepts, purposes and types (placement, formative, summative, diagnostic)Measurement, Test Quality and the School Record →
- Test quality — validity, reliability, objectivity, discrimination and difficultyMeasurement, Test Quality and the School Record →
- Item construction — writing objective (multiple-choice) items and essay items, and marking schemesMeasurement, Test Quality and the School Record →
- Continuous assessment — records, rating scales, projects and the weighting of school-based scoresMeasurement, Test Quality and the School Record →
- Recording and reporting — school-based assessment records, grading, and interpretation of scoresMeasurement, Test Quality and the School Record →
- Numeracy for teachers — ratios, percentages, averages, ratios of scores and basic data presentationMeasurement, Test Quality and the School Record →
- Literacy for teachers — reading for meaning, summarising, and accurate written expression in professional documentsMeasurement, Test Quality and the School Record →
- Digital literacy for teachers — devices, connectivity, file management and the pedagogy of digital toolsDigital Literacy, Safeguarding and the Boundaries Around Both →
- Software for teaching and school administration — word processing, spreadsheets for records, learning management systems and video conferencingDigital Literacy, Safeguarding and the Boundaries Around Both →
- Data and privacy in schools — safe handling of learner records, passwords and personal dataDigital Literacy, Safeguarding and the Boundaries Around Both →
- Online safety and responsible use — cyberbullying, misinformation and the teacher's roleDigital Literacy, Safeguarding and the Boundaries Around Both →
- Safeguarding learners — child protection policy, the Child's Rights Act, reporting duties and school health and safetyDigital Literacy, Safeguarding and the Boundaries Around Both →
- Inclusion and equity in the classroom — gender, disability, poverty and religion-sensitive practiceDigital Literacy, Safeguarding and the Boundaries Around Both →
- Professional reflection — self-evaluation, peer observation, mentoring and continuing professional developmentDigital Literacy, Safeguarding and the Boundaries Around Both →
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