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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All about the trade

How to get your first teaching job

Wanda Marshall from educate.org.uk tells you what to expect from your first teach-related interview.

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• Teaching is like no other
• Golden hellos
• New to Teaching- Looking for vacancies
• Association of Teachers and Lecturers

Entry and progression

What financial support is available for teachers?

If you are a postgraduates on a PGCE leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), you will receive a £6,000 bursary while on Initial Teacher Training as long as your tuition fees are being paid by your Local Education Authority (LEA).

Careers and Development

A choice of schools

There is no such thing as a typical school. The kind of school you choose to work in will make a significant difference to the kind of experiences you will face as a teacher.

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• Your placement
• Training bursaries

Job Roles

Now that you’ve gained 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.

Teach UK Related Course Profiles

Course Profile

Durhan University School Of Education

Durham University's School of Education has a thriving and diverse community of taught and research postgraduate students and is an outstanding centre for teaching and research, capitalising on the academic strengths and diversity of our teaching and research staff.

Professional Bodies Profile

ATL The education union

ATL recognises the link between education policy and our members’ conditions of employment Our 160,000 members - teachers, lecturers, headteachers and support staff - are empowered to get active locally and nationally. We are affiliated to the TUC, and work with government and employers by lobbying and through social partnership.

Course Profile

Wandsworth Primary Schools Consortium

We aim to provide a challenging and well designed programme of school-based practice and academic study to a wide range of trainee teachers. Our inclusive ethos and well resourced environment offer a highly supportive and personalised approach to learning.

Course Profile

Are you considering teaching as a career?

he 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: T

Course Profile

Teacher Training Profile

Bath Spa University has a long tradition of teacher training, and courses are planned and taught in close collaboration with teachers in schools.

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

Course Profile

Victoria McNaney (MFL)

I can’t say for sure what initially attracted me to teaching. It’s just something I have always seen myself doing. I always enjoyed helping other people and passing on knowledge, particularly trying to teach family and friends the new language that I was learning in school and that has stayed with me into my training.

Teach UK Related Career Profiles

Graduate Employers

Volunteer Gap Year Teaching Opportunities

Lattitude volunteer gap year teaching a variety of subjects in countries where educational standards are low

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 Employers

Welcome to Essex

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