Schools advertising for 'unqualified teachers'

[roamingespadrille]

This is what a number of our local schools are advertising. Very low pay attached to it. Job description is a full teaching job.

Are you sure about that jellyfrizz? I seem to recall being told on st least three separate occasions that It was in countries like NZ and maybe Aus and USA where you have to have the PGCE. Although I'm actually doing the PGCE I think I'd remember as we are thinking of buying a home in Scotland with view to moving there in the future.

Just googled it three years teaching experience and a degree apparently should be sufficient.

Just googled it three years teaching experience and a degree apparently should be sufficient.

Oh. GTCS website says otherwise:

"I do not possess any formal teacher education qualifications. Can I still apply for registration?

No.
At present, our registration rules do not permit registration of applicants who do not hold an appropriate teacher eduation qualification."

(www.gtcs.org.uk/registration/apply-for-registration/qualified-outside-of-scotland/qualified-outside-of-scotland-faqs.aspx)

I have QTS, no PGCE, and am currently a Head in Scotland. I have provisional registration, and need to do a PGCE top up at some point in the next 3 years. My partner did a PGCE, and has full registration, and is working as a teacher.

I am wondering about getting QTLS via the recognition route as have worked in FE as a lecturer since 2000 - this would take me a few months only - and then teaching in schools (in England, not interested in moving to Scotland).

Has anyone got experience of themselves or others they know moving from teaching in FE to teaching in schools? I wouldn't have a PGCE but would officially be a qualified not unqualified teacher as QTLS is equivalent to QTS.

But would I find it hard in other ways? How different is it teaching in schools compared to in FE? I'm used to teaching 16+ - but my own dcs are all at secondary now, so certainly used to dealing with teenagers!

I don't know anything about teaching in an FE institute, but teaching sixth form in a school is very different to teaching KS3 and 4. The expectations are very different, homework, marking, behaviour management, lesson planning. I'd suggest that you ask a secondary school if you can spend a day observing lessons to get a better idea.