Teacher training advice needed please.

[avenanap]

Hi, I would like to go into teaching but I am unsure what I can teach with my qualifications. I have a certificate of education in Environmental science (lots of geography), a degree in Law, a certificate of education in childrens nursing with experience of lesson planning, teaching, health education etc, and almost a MSc in Environmental Management (almost geography, pollution, maps, flooding, deforestation, ozone depletion). I'd like to do geography but do you think I'd manage to find a unqualified teacher post so that I can do the graduate teacher programme? Thanks, all advice is greatefully recieved.

If you want to start this Sept then contact local schools now to enquire about GTP - otherwise you might have to wait unitl next academic year.

You could teach Geography and offer Law as your second subject when you get to do some A level teaching.

Or you could go into FE

Have a look here. There is a lot of info.

I may have found one, I just have to email and beg. I just wasn't sure if I'd get away with teaching geography. Thankyou

BLimey that was quick! Good Luck!!!!!

I phoned this afternoon, first one I tried( "yes we do take unqualified graduate teacher programme students, would you like the contact details of the person in charge?"), very close to ds's school, must be fate .

Oh goodness how exciting!! All I have heard is how hard they are to find and you have stumbled across a perfect opportunity.
I want to teach. I have to wait till dd2 is older though and at school herself. I am helping out at dd's school at the moment and loving it .

I went through the phone book and asked them, I've tried primary schools before, some were very abrupt, got a "no, we already have students" from all of them. This was the first secondary I've tried, you can work in either primary or secondary if you're a secondary teacher, but not the other way round. My ds is 8, I need a job asap to pay his school fees. I did some teaching as part of my nursing course and I loved it more than the course. My best friends a primary school teacher, she loves it. Good luck!

I am primary trained but work in secondary by the way, so you can . That's really great about your local school having the GTP.

Thankyou, I have not begged yet. I need to start before september (asap) though, I'm going to offer to work as a TA first so that I can get to know the school, policies and procedures.

One of the TAs I used to work with did GTP with us, and then got a job in our history dept, and is now Ci coordinator for KS3 as well. It does work!

Good luck!

I've emailed today with a list of my many qualifications . I just asked how to apply. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. They'd be mad to turn me down , I'd be so useful, special needs kids, moving and handling, child development, health and social care, law and geography. A tincy bit of teaching and lesson planning. A full CRB check, experience working with teenagers, what more can they ask for? Haa.

You should be able to walk into Geography and possibly Science. Most secondary school teachers have to be flexible with teaching other subjects and able to cover teachers subjects when they are away....you sound like you have a wide background of training so you will be fine.

I was offered a interview last year for a 2 year chemistry teaching course. i hate chemstry, they wouldn't let me do biology because I didn't know enough about plants. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. it's the school hours, I don't mind working at home in the evening but I can't find a job to work around my ds, I'm a single mum so he's got to come first. I like Geography but I need to start now! Fingers, knees, toes crossed. I hope they email me back.