Teaching routes

Gleeful

I do think you have to have real passion, resilience, not to mention bags of energy. It's not a 9-5 job and it's very hard to switch off when you get home. The holidays are a perk, but you will need them to recuperate after six mad weeks!

stephyt23

shegirl wrote: »

Oldernotwiser was right in how your post sounded I'm afraid: 'any degree requires you to have experience at both key stages'...

Experience need not be while you are doing a degree if it is not BEd and can come at any time.Infact,I have a friend who is graduating next week (BSc..oh yeah,don't forget there aren't just two types of undergrad degree!!!) and has started work experience in schools over the past couple of weeks as he is now aiming to go into teaching.Another friend didn't have any experience at all.So it not essential for all degrees,not while you are doing them.But it would be helpful.

Well sorry for trying to be helpful! Not my fault if I can't recall EVERY type of degree! Certainly for BA and BEd primary/ Early primary education with QTS degrees you do need prior experience. I know this because my degree is a BA and I've actually already completed 1 year on a BEd before deciding the University I was at wasn't right for me. For all I know this may vary by University but certainly not at the ones I went/ am going to, nor the ones my friends are at. For a BSc it may be different, I wouldn't know.

dorsetlady

Teaching is very hard to get into! I have a BSc (from the OU) and the GCSEs in Maths and English that you need. I tried to get a place on a SCITT course but was unsuccessful! There are hundreds of applicants for the few places available each year. I feel I wasted years studying as, at 47, I am working for little more than minimum wage. But I'm probably one of the unlucky graduates!

stephyt23

Gleeful wrote: »

I don't think now is the time to be going into teaching. The government is training more than the country needs, especially at Primary level.

The kids are feral, pressures are high and funding in schools is being squeezed!

I also totally disagree with this. I have been to one school which wasn't a great one and that would be very hard to teach in without being stressed every day. If that had been the only school I'd ever been to I'd agree with you and it would have put me off teaching as a career.

However I have also seen many excellent schools where there is fantastic behaviour. I'm currently at one school that has just received an Outstanding from Ofsted. Apart from a very small minority of children they are exceptionally well behaved. And I've been in others schools with similar behaviour standards which were not Oustanding schools.

stephyt23

dorsetlady wrote: »

Teaching is very hard to get into! I have a BSc (from the OU) and the GCSEs in Maths and English that you need. I tried to get a place on a SCITT course but was unsuccessful! There are hundreds of applicants for the few places available each year. I feel I wasted years studying as, at 47, I am working for little more than minimum wage. But I'm probably one of the unlucky graduates!

It is hard to get into. I knew of three people who graduated from a BEd degree three years ago. Two of them took 2 years to get a job, the other one took 3. Certainly one was feeling very fed up and getting close to packing it all in but didn't want to give up on her dream. She spent two years trying to get in as much supply work as she could, although I know even that can be hard to come by

shegirl

stephyt23 wrote: »

Well sorry for trying to be helpful! Not my fault if I can't recall EVERY type of degree! Certainly for BA and BEd primary/ Early primary education with QTS degrees you do need prior experience. I know this because my degree is a BA and I've actually already completed 1 year on a BEd before deciding the University I was at wasn't right for me. For all I know this may vary by University but certainly not at the ones I went/ am going to, nor the ones my friends are at. For a BSc it may be different, I wouldn't know.

If your degree is in education yes but if it's in another subject no.What you wrote just came out a little sounding like everyone would need it