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GF / Doris wants to train as a teacher, has a degree in something-or-other, and a TESOL qualification/years experience, is a fluent German speaker (she's half swiss).
she wants to be an english teacher, but has been told she can't get onto a PGCE until 2054.
she's been told she can get onto a PGCE as a German teacher in september.
is this a good idea? - will Doris be able to transfer/re-train as an english teacher once she's qualified as an german teacher?
and is teaching D-t as easy a skive as my pal 'he-who-snores' would have me believe?
(and i'm now relising the pointlessness of posting a question for teachers, at a time when they won't be able to read it, balls)
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To a point, the subject you train as a teacher for is merely the vehicle that you use to get the teaching qualification.
I originally trained as a PE teacher, but ended up teaching just about everything in my time at skule.
HTH
SB
Indeed. My wife took Psychology with German and it was the 'with German' part (and the fact she can teach Enhlish as a foreign language as well) that enabled her to jump the queue to do her PGCE.
She rarely teaches German but when she does its done during one of her free periods and as a consequence she is paid extra on top of her normal wages for each lesson of German she covers.
A point to consider is that german is being taught less and less in schools, with students and schools favouring french and spanish, also its no longer compulsory for students to do a GCSE in a foreign language, so 'getting her foot in the door' could potentially be more difficult as there will be less jobs about...also there are a fair few english teachers so she'll be competing against these folk for english teaching jobs.
I know this isn't what you want to hear but hope its still helpful.
I'm a HoD in a secondary school. Now admittedly my subject is a bit vocationally specific (Design) and I work at a very good school so I get to choose from a serious selection of candidates when recruiting but I'm afraid I wouldn't look twice at a NQT (newly qualified teacher) candidate without a PGCE [b]and [/b]degree in a relevant subject. She might have to do a good few years teaching German and hope that she can do a bit on the side of English to build up some provable competence in that area before applying to do that full time. I'm assuming she has at least got a decent (A or B grade) A level in English Lit?
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So, fellow teachers, how's the 'planning for next year' going? I'm coming to the end of a marvellous two weeks where I've had plenty of time to 'plan', having only had 2 & 1/2 hours of teaching as all my other groups are on exam leave. Next week Year 12 are back and I'll be up to 14 hours of teaching, which is frankly outrageous, how can I be expected to operate effectively with only 11 hours of non-contact time?????
Thankfully Year 10 will be out on a fortnight's work experience the week after.
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Some git has me down for 10 hours of invigilating internal exams next week, and I'm going to have to teach 5hrs to my returning yr12s. Not sure I can cope! Fortunately as I only teach colouring in, I didn't have to set an exam so no marking to be done.
Anyway, I'm meant to be writing reports and I'm already a day late so best be off!
Headfirst - you are so right! How am I expected to get serious internet time in when kids keep asking me to 'teach' them?!? I'm currently clearing out a cupboard rather than doing reports AND rearranging my room - teaching is sooooo hard! The concept of educating Y12 when they return is beyond my comprehension and as for teaching KS3 surely that goes against some kind of human rights laws!
Lol'd at the op's comment [i]"(and i'm now relising the pointlessness of posting a question for teachers, at a time when they won't be able to read it, balls)"[/i]
Got loads of time! time is all I've got! it's motivation and drive I lack....
anyway....back to the cupboard....
monkeenutz: I made a textbook error* and tidied out my cupboard BEFORE HALF TERM, which has made work avoidan....sorry, I mean 'planning' even more difficult the last fortnight. Currently got 3 sets of OMRs for reports on my desk...underneath my keyboard as I type this, as they're not due in till next friday and I've got far more important things to do right now, like putting the holiday dates into next year's planner...
*pun intended
convert - you may well be a HoD who's fussy over who she/he takes on. However, my first job, a supply job, something NQTs aren't supposed to do, was teaching Chemistry. I told them I was a PGCE NQT in PE. They told me that as long as I had two arms and two legs and could stand in front of a class I should get down there straight away!!! Sometimes schools aren't so fussy. There's was a mini flu epedemic at the time!!!
Gotta take opportunities as they present themselves. 🙂
I've done more cover this bloody term than in the whole of my career.
Thankfully nailed all my planning earlier this term...