Teacher training

[themauvehen]

My DSD wants to be a secondary school teacher. She has just completed her first year at uni. Her old school has told her that they don't take trainee teachers but if she gets a year of work experience with them, this will count as a year of training and she can then go back to that school to train and not have to go anywhere else?

Is this correct?

There are lots of routes into secondary teaching but that isn't one of them as far as I know. A degree followed by a year doing PGCE either in a university or a teaching school is one route. There are others.
Get into teaching gives lots of information.
Work experience is certainly important but so is a degree. If she is doing a subject with a teacher shortage there are scholarships and bursaries for the training year. Also her uni may offer work experience as a volunteer.

I would also say that it is vital she experiences more than one school. Schools are so different to each other and she will be hindered massively if she only has experience of one school. Work experience would be great whilst she is doing her degree, then follow it with a PGCE.

I have not heard of this route into teaching. However, she definitely will have to teach at more than one school in order to qualify. It is a legal requirement of being awarded QTS.