'To be an ASN teacher you don't need a PGDE' ???

[Ispywithmycynicaleye]

According to Teach in Scotland, to become an ASN teacher you need to either hold an undergraduate degree OR have done the one year PGDE.

Can anyone tell me if this is correct please. Unfortunately my experience with the advisers you call for advice has been poor with every enquiry being met with 'don't know best call local uni'.

Scottish universities all say that completing the PGDE is the ONLY way to teach in scotland, contradicting what Teach in Scotlad say.

I am Scottish and this is where I completed my degree Education Studies (Primary) with a First Class last year and have been volunteering in an ASL department and loving it. My children have an ASD diagnosis and I'm also going through my own assessment. It is an area of teaching I would love to work in.

So is Teach in Scotland right? And if so how would I get started? Following their links has led to information that contradicts what they say hence the confusion.

Thankyou.

I think the issue here is that an OU degree in Education Studies is not a teaching degree. You would need to do your teaching degree as a post grad.

Have you been awarded Provisional Registration with the GTCS?

Have just realised this - I don't think the OU course contains a teaching qualification element so you're right OP would need to do a PGDE to teach at any level.

@Ispywithmycynicaleye

These guys are best placed to advise on what you need to enable you to teach.

www.gtcs.org.uk

I would say they're not always the quickest to respond though!

It’s the combined degrees you’re talking about later in the thread, where essentially the PGDE is done at the same time as the rest of your degree.

Unsure of what exact qualification it’s listed as for primary, but I did the secondary one... but dropped the ITE element in the last year, so I have a combined degree with one of the subjects being education, (because I’d done the modules) but the people who were going on to their probationary year got an x subject and Education (professional) after education on their degree, mine is just x subject and education.

Ahhh now that makes more sense