teacher training with young children

[grannyinapram]

is it possible?
I have a 0,2,6 and 7 year old.

You need to take it one step at a time. I was working part time, helping with my dad who had cancer. My daughter was 12 and husband was on shifts. I began with one A level ..English Lit. The course did year one in the morning and Year 2 in the afternoon so I did the A level in one year on my day off from work. Homework in evening or weekend. Followed the following year with A level in History. I then left my job to do a full time degree. By this time we also had a 10 year old boy living with us and my daughter was doing A levels herself. The key element was a very supportive husband prepared to cook and be there the week he got in early so I could stay at university and do assignments. Very workable on degree course as you don't usually need to be there all day every day. Lots of study fitting around other commitments. The hardest part was the one year PGCE course. As other's have said, it is full on.

Your situation is more challenging than mine was but with a supportive husband the A levels are definitely doable one a a time which takes the same time as doing 2 at once over 2 years.

Don't be put off because it will take some time. Every time you do well in an exam you will be stirred on to go to the next step.

When I did mine you needed a grade C at gcse English and Maths. I had As for both English and English Lit but didn't have the Maths. You could start with that if you don't have the Maths. A word of caution though, don't start with the Maths if you are not too good at it ...if you don't do well it might put you off doing the other stuff. I did the Maths after my degree. By that time I would have got the Maths if it had killed me. The other point being that even if I hadn't done the Maths I would still have had the degree with lots of routes I could go from there.

In my experience, the most daunting part was making a start. Go for it op, but take it as slowly as you need to ...you have a lot on at present. Good luck

@MaudHatter

How much will it cost you to study for 6 years ? I’d add up all the figures before I’m be committing to anything tbh . At a minimum £9 k x 6 is £54 k which you’ll have to pay back . Is it worth it ?

Not necessarily, you can complete a 3-year bachelors degree with the Open Uni for £6200 in total. I also got a fair amount of money off my degree cost when I did Open uni due to being a parent on a low income.

*custardcreambourbon where do you get that figure from? OP would need an honours degree so even with OU is £18.5k just in tuition fees and the OU put up their fees every year so by the time she finished it would likely be a fair bit more.

As others have said, go for English rather than history as history is still incredibly competitive and about the only subject where there are way more applicants than jobs.

Start your A Levels or an access apurse and get school experience and see what you think.

How supportive is your husband? How hands on is he?

@infinitediamonds the OU website. When I did my degree with them the fees went up slightly each year but nothing particularly noticeable.

Yes it’s still a large amount of money- 6k for a degree, 9k for teacher training plus whatever the cost of doing a-levels as an adult is. I was just responding to the claim that it would cost OP 54k at the very minimum.

I had assumed OP was in England. OU is £18k in England but £6k in Scotland, Wales and NI.