Re Training Nurse/Teacher?

carolt

I can't comment on nursing, but as for teaching, as a teacher I'd be surprised is someone with such poor qualifications was a good teacher - sorry to be negative, and people can change, but until they've successfully passed English and Maths at the very least, at Grade C or above, I don't think they should be making longer-term plans about teaching. It is an 'academic' job, even at Primary level - you can't analyse why children are making the mistakes they are making, let alone help them to improve, without strong intellectual skills. Intellectual ability on its own doesn't make a good teacher - but it's a fairly important component.

Be honest - would you want your child taught by a teacher who couldn't spell or add up? I know I wouldn't. The OP may be a lovely person - but that doesn't mean they'd be any good as a teacher.

First steps first - they need to spend some time working in a school, either volunteering, or as a teaching assistant. And in a hospital. Teaching is hard work, apart from anything else - maybe the OP is clever but was just lazy; either way, laziness will not help them be a good teacher either.

Instead of some pie-in-the sky fantasy about getting a nice safe job with a safe pension they need to actually experience the reality on the ground of 2 entirely different, rewarding but demanding jobs. Plus see if they have developed the academic skills and commitment to pass exams in the last 20 years, or they're wasting everybody's time, including their own.

Best of luck, OP.

pingua

Excellent use of full stops,commas,sentences and paragraphs there. ??

O.P I think people are being a bit negative. I wish you well with your plans. Have you tried phoning the hospital and having a talk with them ?
Just realised that sounds a bit bad !! What I mean is try going in to have a chat about nursing.

carolt

pingua wrote: »

Excellent use of full stops,commas,sentences and paragraphs there. ??

Was that directed at me?

If so, please point out my punctuation errors - had another look, and still can't see any.

Take it you're not a teacher?

KeithP

carolt wrote: »

If so, please point out my punctuation errors - had another look, and still can't see any.

Perhaps that sentence should be two sentences.
Like this:
If so, please point out my punctuation errors. I have had another look, and still can't see any.

But we seem to be digressing.
Maybe at the time the OP took her GCSEs, it is possible that she wasn't prime teacher material. We all mature. Maybe now, having sat and passed the relevent courses and exams, she would be a very capable teacher (or nurse).
:beer:

Tink82

I took my G.C.S.E's in 1999 and got mostly D's. It is not because I'm not very bright, I was just immature and was not all that fussed at the time (I also hated school)

Now I'm off to uni in September, older, a little wiser and most importantly, more mature!! I'd rather my daughters teacher was an older one that was more dedicated and commited and hopefuly has children of their own, than one that just fell out of school.

What you may or may not have done X years ago is really not an accurate portrail of you as a person now. I wonder how many people who passed their GCSE maths years ago and not had a lesson sonce, could re-sit the paper and pass?

I feel I learn better now and a mature adult than I ever did as a young girl, I understand things better and I have CHOSEN to go back into education. Surely when some one does that it shows they are 110% commited to thier goal?

carolt

Good luck, Tink. I do agree with you - maturity counts for a lot, and not everyone does the best they could have done as an unmotivated teenager.

However, that said, I have had teachers who weren't academically very bright, and my children have had them - and frankly, teachers who can't spell/add up are a bit of a waste of space. There are lots of useful, well-paid and important jobs where academic skills are less important - but teaching is not one of them.

I was also concerned that there was nothing in the OP that suggested any kind of real commitment to either teaching or nursing, other than a vague idea or decent salary. They're very different jobs. The OP needs to volunteer/observe/work in both a school and a hospital, to get a clearer idea of what the job actually involves, whether they're up to it, and whether they're really committed to either (very demanding) career.

They won't be able to get a place on any teaching course anywhere until they've done that. There's a reason for that.