Any secondary english teachers around?

[iva555]

Hi everyone,

If there are any English teachers around I would love to hear about your job and what your every day routine is.The good and the bad stuff, and what made you choose secondary before primary teaching? Sorry I hope thread is not too boring thanks

ooh yes, me too!!!
i will be watching this thread closely..

I'm a science teacher not an english teacher but since you hadn't had any replies in a week I thought I'd give you my perspective.

To be honest, primary teaching never crossed my mind. Some of my friends do it and I knew ther was a massive oversupply of primary teachers and hardly any jobs. I didn't really fancy that. Little kids don't really appeal to me en mass so to speak. With your own kids you have to deal with behaviour, screaming, silliness etc but multiplied into a class of 30/32, no thanks! I also didn't fancy having the same kids day in day out, all day. In secondary I can be having the class from hell but at least I know it'll be finshed within an hour and I can send them on their merry way. I was very attracted to A-level teaching as I love my subject and have studied it as far as I could (I have a PhD), therefore I wanted the stretch of A-level as I felt my brain might turn to mush. I enjoy seeing kids through their teenage years and watching them come out the other side as (mostly) civilised human beings capable of holding their own in the world. The downsides are the constant bad language (rarely aimed at you but just around as part of the furniture almost), lazy kids who expect a C for no work, kids with no manners who constantly talk and then complain they don't knwo what they're doing, spineless SLT who avoid confrontation with any child, having to deal with Y7s falling out with their friends and expecting you to sort it out, seeing a number of girls get pregnant every year.

Despite that I love my job, the lows are very low but the highs are similarly very high so it all levels out in the end.

also a science teacher but agree 100% with Kritur

I would Loath teaching in primary. I'd hate to have to teach them a wide range of subjevts, I love my subject too much I think.

Re teaching English my best mate does this and the biggest down side is the amount of marking.....far more than I do tbh