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Class teacher Qualification

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Curiouslyhere · 21/09/2022 21:07

Is it a normal practise for a fresh college graduate with QTS ( BEd(Hons)) to be hired as a full time class teacher with no teaching assistant? In our prep school, they have hired such a teacher and she is so young with no classroom experience.
I always thought that they would need some transitioning and classroom experience with an experienced teacher, before being made responsible to be the only person responsible for the whole class.
I would appreciate your inputs. We are not from UK so unfamiliar with the education system here.
Thanks a lot.

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Mookie81 · 22/09/2022 23:09

Reception have to have a ta, it's a statutory ratio.
A lot of schools, even London ones (mine included)) will have 1 or 2 tas per year group from year 1 upwards. Some schools have less than that. The budget isn't there.

stitchinguru · 22/09/2022 23:27

@CraftyGin
How do you know that ECTs are well-supported in ALL independent schools?
Not a dig, just genuinely curious.

lbnblbnb · 22/09/2022 23:31

France98 · 22/09/2022 13:16

Totally different here in Scotland. I had a PGDE student last year, she had failed a placement prior to coming to me. She passed her placement with myself, just!

It was Christmas time when she passed as it was mid year due to falling a placement the previous year. She was moving to England in the Christmas holidays and had a permanent job lined up in a private school. No probation period, nothing.

So although she did 3 placements through university, she failed one and had no mentor etc going into her new job. They just gave her a permanent job and that was that. I was shocked because that doesn't happen here. You would need to do a probation period or the flexi route with a mentor etc first.

I was told it's very common down in England! 😳

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Not true - maybe in private schools, but certainly not in state/academies.

spanieleyes · 23/09/2022 17:11

Reception don't HAVE to have a class TA, the legal ratio for a school reception class is 1:30. However, it would be a very foolish school that DIDNT have a TA on Reception.

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