Introduction

Teaching is an important and increasingly popular choice of career for all kinds of people.

Whatever your circumstances; if you're about to graduate, or looking for a change of direction there are more ways to enter the profession than ever before.

To ensure teaching is the right career choice for you, it makes sense to get some classroom experience.

Training providers want to know that you have the skills and motivation to teach, and you will usually be expected to have experience of working with children of the relevant age, preferably in a school environment.

 

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Funding your studies

If you are a postgraduates on a PGCE leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), you will receive a bursary while on Initial Teacher Training as long as your tuition fees are being paid by your Local Education Authority (LEA).

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• Teaching and Education

Teacher Training

School Placements

The road ahead may appear a little daunting right now but don't worry

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• Do I have the qualifications to be a teacher?
• Teacher Training
• Postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE)
• School-centred initial teacher training

Teaching Roles

Teaching in FE

Teaching in FE is very diverse profession FE lecturers may teach in any of the following settings: General or specialist FE College; Tertiary College Sixth form College; HM Prisons Armed Forces Education Centres ; Company Training Centres Other training organisation i.e. Worker’ Educational Association (WEA)

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• Secondary school teacher
• Primary school teacher
• Higher education lecturer
• Nursery teacher

Your First School

Now that you have gained you QTS

First of all, congratulations on successfully completing your teacher training and gaining Qualified Teaching Status (QTS). There is no doubt that you will have worked long and hard to have achieved this.

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• How to get your first teaching job
• What type of School should I teach in?

Careers in Teaching Related Course Profiles

Course Profile

GTP (Secondary) (Graduate Teacher Programme)

The Graduate Teaching Training programme consists of a combination of school based training, weekly subject pathway sessions with your subject group and sessions provided by the University of Gloucestershire.

Course Profile

Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)

The London Diocesan Board for Schools (LDBS), Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT).

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PGCE (Secondary) (Postgraduate Certificate in Education)

GITEP is a partnership between the Gloucestershire Association of Secondary Headteachers and the University of Gloucestershire.

Professional Bodies Profile

Association of Teachers and Lecturers

ATL recognises the link between education policy and our members conditions of employment. Our evidence-based policy making enables us to campaign and negotiate from a position of strength. We champion good practice and achieve better working lives for our members.

Course Profile

West Midlands Consortium PGCE & GTP

The West Midlands Consortium is based at the highly successful Thomas Telford School in Telford and linked to 30 schools across the West Midlands. The consortium consists of a diverse range of schools including a City Technology College, City Academies, LEA maintained, Foundation schools and an independent College. The majority of West Midlands Consortium Schools are Specialist Schools including:

Course Profile

School of Teaching, Health and Care

See Bradford, see the world! West Yorkshire has a long tradition of pioneering in education and Bradford College continues that work. The McMillan School of Teaching, Health & Care bears the name of one of those pioneers who was concerned about the total well-being of children - before Every Child Matters was a Government policy! Twenty-first century Bradford has multicultural, multilingua

Careers in Teaching Related Career Profiles

Graduate Employers

First teaching job?... make it first class!

Sutton's high performing schools provide new teachers with the ideal opportunity to reach their full potential and become first class teachers. Sutton schools are well resourced and our extensive staff development programme provides excellent support for our teachers.

Professional Associations Prof

The union for professionals

Prospect represents over 120,000 members in the public and private sectors working as engineers, scientists, managers and specialists in areas as diverse as agriculture, defence, energy, environment, heritage, industry, transport, education and children's services. It has 34,000 members working for Government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

Graduate Employers

Expand your horizons, invest in your future

"If you've done Raleigh, you've actually acquired and honed a lot of the skills that you need in the workplace, in terms of leadership, management, project delivery...it's a pretty phenomenal thing." Richard Reed, Co-founder, Innocent Drinks

Graduate Profiles

NQT Teaching

Essex welcomes well qualified, enthusiastic and committed teachers working in all phases of education to join our dedicated teaching force of 10,000 teachers. We recognise the value of, and seek to achieve a diverse workforce which includes people from different backgrounds, with different skills and abilities