I trained to be a secondary modern languages teacher and worked as such for a few years. Had many years break due to moving internationally and having loads of kids.
I am now living in Germany and returned to work 3 years ago working as a TA part time in a private primary school. The local rule for accepting foreign (or even other regional ) qualifications are very strict and mine are not recognised as acceptable to teach in promary as I am trained for secondary. However I can't work in secondary for several reasons.
As a TA I am now feeling extremely bored. However, there are big positives. I can work part time and I start and stop workk bang on the bell so have little stress and no prep which is useful as I still have a lot of family demands and my youngest is still little (7). But I am BORED.
If I wanted to work as a teacher again I would probably have to re do my PGCE, which would be an incredibly demanding year.
Then, assuming my school would offer me a teaching post, I would have obviously all the demands and much longer hours that I don't have, and I would have to work full time.
It's such a huge leap in time and effort. But I have just turned 46 so think I need to either act now or put up. I can't see myself still being a bored TA in 5 years time, but then I am wary or massively increasing the demands which would impact me and the family a lot.
So any helpful insights and suggestions?
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ErnesttheBavarian · 02/06/2016 15:20
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