Any French teachers here?

[Subeccoo]

I am considering becoming a qualified French teacher, it would be a couple more years studying for me and then a route to qts. I'm currently working in a pastoral role and covering a long term sickness in the French department and am really loving it. I did this for a year a few years ago too.

I just have questions/ advice to ask if there are any French teachers in here!

I've been a french teacher for 15 years. What do you want to know?

What are your questions?

Not the kind of French teachers op was after then

Another French teacher here. What do you want to know?

Oh my gosh I completely forgot I posted this.

I was just interested if you took the traditional route into teaching.

I'm 39 and 2 years from finishing my degree in English and French with the OU.
Learning a language ast distance is tough but I'm getting there. My spoken French is what suffers most as I don't get loads of opportunity to speak.

As I said I've been covering a full fetch timetable for a while now and my school are interested in supporting me to fully qualified, I guess I wondered if you think I'm at a disadvantage, never lived in France for example...

You might struggle to teach at A Level if that was what you wanted to do - you need to feel confident speaking at a rate of 75% - 100% French every lesson to your students. No problems whatsoever teaching to GCSE. There are fewer and fewer MFL teachers out there, schools are not as stringent with qualifications as they might be - I know of several qualified teachers in other subjects who teach MFL full time because they are fluent as a result of family connections or time abroad with another job, not because they set out to teach MFL. If the school is supporting you, they are obviously seeing you do a good job so go for it. I say that with all the usual caveats about teaching that you will read here. It is a tough job and getting tougher and is not family friendly. You will constantly feel that other people's children are more important than on your own.

Hi thanks for that.

Our school doesn't have a 6th form so A level hadn't crossed my mind.

I'm confident delivering whole lessons in French, just not overly confident in spontaneous adult conversations iyswim but I am working on that with evening classes for social discussion etc
My school want me to do a subject knowledge enhancement course which I hope has a focus on speaking too... Now my own children are older I feel it's something I'm able to pursue, if I'm up to the job!