Sachelle

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Sachelle did her undergraduate degree (BA Education, Culture and Society) at Goldsmiths and knew it would be the right choice for her teacher training. “I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the lecturers – so I felt there wouldn’t be a better place. I love Goldsmiths. I feel it’s an amazing place to study and I would definitely 100% recommend it.”

The Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths offers Masters and research degrees, as well as PGCEs. It is proud to have a focus on social justice, and also on preparing people to work in an inner-city environment, with things like decolonising the curriculum and anti-racist practice woven through what it offers.

For Sachelle, one of the most valuable aspects of teacher training at Goldsmiths is that the people educating her are grounded in their own experience of being in the classroom, and in carrying out research in schools.

“Having lecturers that are actually researchers and have the level of credentials that they do is key, because they’re feeding as much as the textbooks do... they’re feeding us knowledge-rich information that they have actually researched and investigated. How incredible that we are being taught by someone who has written all of these amazing research articles!”

Sachelle grew up not far from Goldsmiths, and plans to start her career in London. After a few years grounding herself in the curriculum, she wants to follow her passion for teaching children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). She sometimes struggled emotionally while at school, and was inspired by one of her teachers to work hard and fulfil her potential.

“I didn’t go to a very good school, but I just had that one teacher that always stuck up for me and said: ‘You can do this, you can do better.’ And so here we are!”