If you want to do a degree type qualification - is there anyway round not having Grade C at Maths?

[KatyMac]

My friend has grade 2 CSE & a degree

She wants to do Early Year Professional Status

They say she can't because about She doesn't have Maths

Is there a loop hole?

I mostly teach Biology, since I went into biological research/ the pharmaceutical industry after my first degree. At heart I'm a biologist.

I teach all 3 sciences up to the end of KS3 (most science teachers do). I teach Physics at foundation level at GCSE, as we are short of Physics teachers.

I could teach chemistry at GCSE, but the school doesn't need me to do that, as we have 'real' chemists to do that.

I could teach A level chemistry if I took the summer holidays to get back up to speed, but I don't think I would be as good at it as I am at biology (sorry, that sounds boastful) and I wouldn't enjoy it very much.

I will be teaching Biology and physics at A level for applied science next year, but this isn't at a very high level

Different.

I've loved all the jobs I've eve had.

The research I did was in three different universities. I then left and worked in Medical Information for 2 different drugs companies, basically I was paid to read and supply information! What a fantastic job!

Then I had the kids and was a SAHM for a bit.

I'd always wanted to teach, and had done a little at university, working with undergrads. So I did my PGCE with the OU and went into teaching.

In some ways it is the most intellectually demanding job that I have ever had. I love it very much. I'm very fortunate to work with some amazing kids!

I'm going to sound very bigheaded now, and I'm sorry.

there are a 1001 things that I can't do, but I do know an awful lot of biology. I've spent over 30 years working on it!

I've never been asked something I didn't know the answer to at KS3, there have been one or two things, off the sylabus at KS4 (why do we blush was one I had to research) over the 5 years I've been teaching.

At A level it happens a couple of times a year. I can often give them my 'best guess' worked out from basic knowlege, for example I didn't know why horses get emphysema, but I worked it out and was right. I didn't know how plasmodesmata in plant cells 'know' where to line up, but I googled it, and found out for the student. Sometimes I can't find the answer, possibly because no-one yet knows.

I'm always totaly honest when a student asks something that I don't know the answer for. It is what sience is all about

That is a good question, isn't it? I was V impressed when I was asked it. The answer is no-one knows for sure, but a possible answer is that by showing that you have blood flowing to your face (which causes the redness) less blood is flowing to your arms and legs, so you can't be getting ready to attack someone. So it is sort of a 'sign of passivity' IYSWIM.

My own family now ban be from 'enthusing' about science topics while we are out in public. Key, specific topics, that are banned are 'How sand dunes form' and the rock cycel and the differences between different types of rocks. My brother (also a biology teacher) is not allowed to talk about tree reproduction to his family!

Not in the slightest! isn't that odd?

Both mum and dad left school at 14, because their families needed the money (this was in the 40's) Dad was very bright, but never had a chance. But he ended up as a Trades Union Leader. {smile] His father was working as a coal miner ar 12, he was also very bright and was interested in science, but never had a chance. My great gran was illiterate.

We had the chances and took them. Almost all of my cousins had some form of tertiary Education. This was in the glory days of the 70s and early 80s when full grants were up for grabs.

My life is so very different than my parents/ GPs etc. I'm a very fortunate woman