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Teacher subject cross over - Allowed?

33 replies

grants1000 · 23/03/2014 11:40

Are teachers qualified allowed to teach different subjects?

Can a PE teacher teach a task based lesson?

I thought you trained as a maths, history, science teacher etc and then taught that subjects. I could be wrong but I am new to secondary school as DS1 in Y7 and just wanted to ask.

Thanks

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LordPalmerston · 23/03/2014 13:00

you can teach anything you like

a skilled teacher can, pretty much, not everything though

EdithWeston · 23/03/2014 12:59

I've spotted that a lot of Antipodean teachers do more than one subject (is it to do with how teacher training is done there?)

And we have a number of subject teachers who also do PE (rather than the other way round, IYSWIM)

Whether you are happy with that must depend on whether you trust your school to employ and deploy staff who are of a proper standard. It works OK for us.

Fruityb · 23/03/2014 12:42

Once you have qualified teacher status technically you can teach anything, though you have your main specialism. So I'm a trained English and Drama teacher, but could teach
Media as I've got qualifications in them. I could be asked to teach anything to be fair, but generally they'll go for the ones that can do it before they'd ever come to someone like me.
PE teachers usually have a second subject so that they can keep a toe in the classroom if they don't do GCSE PE. Tends to be science or RE in my experience, but they can have anything as a secondary subject.

adoptmama · 23/03/2014 12:37

It's very common to be dual qualified.

Floralnomad · 23/03/2014 11:53

My DS is starting his teacher training in September ,he is going to be a computer science teacher but he has already agreed with the school he is based at that he will also do English ( apparently non exam years ). He has an A level in English lit ,is very widely read and loves Shakespeare etc so I'm sure he will be fine.

chocoshopoholic · 23/03/2014 11:52

There are also inservice subject courses for teachers wishing to teach different subjects offered by universities

manfirstual · 23/03/2014 11:48

You can theoretically teach all sorts of things, it's just that a school would (normally) look for someone with subject knowledge. It is very, very common for a PE teacher to offer a second subject.

TheFallenMadonna · 23/03/2014 11:45

You train with a first and second subject. Most people teach their specialism, but sometimes there is cross over when there are staffing/recruitment issues. I teach a subject I didn't train in, but I did do a degree in it during a career break.