I am a teacher with 14 yrs experience having initially taught PE and more recently RE and English. My degree is Secondary QTS with English and Sport Science and then I did OU RE whilst teaching to feel I had the subject knowledge to transfer (although the school did not insist on this). I have been both a HOD and HOY. Anyway after a few years out to have my children, I will be looking to return to teaching in the next two yrs and in the area I now live schools are 11-18 whereas I have only taught 11-16. I would very much like to teach sociology at As and A2 as it links with the RE and skills wise with English and having studied it myself I loved it, however I only did it to A level. Whilst I know I am (hopefully am still anyway!) a good teacher with strong pedagogy skills (as this is anonymous I won't be shy!) I am worried I won't get appointed as I am expensive/lack subject knowledge but have two yrs to work on this...can anyone advise anything I can do to help apart from obviously reading! And can anyone tell me whether I would stand any chance of being appointed either in 11-18 (obviously I can and would like to teach RE/English at KS3 and 4 too) or a 6th form college to teach KS5? I could look at OU again but thanks to tuition fees it is very expensive way to buy a few text books an teach yourself! Sorry this is long but really would appreciate advice.
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