Primary teaching

[MrsDuBeke]

Hi there! I'm thinking about a career change into teaching (I already do some teaching of students in HE). My son, 5.5, has asc and none of the usual behaviour techniques have ever worked on him, so we've found our own way but I am totally clueless about classroom behaviour management of NT children! I'd be thinking about ks2. Do you think I could do it??

I personally would stick with HE if I were you. At least you know the students are usually there because they want to be and have chosen your subject. Rather than being there because the law says they have to be 🙄

Whether you can do it would depend on why you are considering it.
If you're already teaching in HE then you're probably intellectually and practically capable of being a competent teacher, so what matters is whether you have the motivation to teach 30 children all day every day.

If you've got a real interest in teaching 30 children a day a range of subjects and seeing them grow as people then you'd probably be good at teaching. If you're considering teaching for another reason then I would recommend you reflect on those reasons further and see whether you end up with a desire to teach at the centre.

If there's no strong desire to teach primary children then however competent you may be, it will probably end up being a short lived career.

What Lola said.