Help for teacher training

[sleepwouldbenice]

Hello! Putting my head round the staffroom door in the hope of getting advice for my daughter. She's at uni doing rteacher training for history for a year.

So next stage apparently is to do 2 years at a school, starting to apply for jobs about now

Looking for any tips you can give please. For example she's looking to teach history, appreciate that's not in as high demand, so has been advised to get some experience/ show willing to teach geography, RE etc.
Do you sign up to teaching recruitment agencies? Got to recruitment fayres? Do you end up having to stay in same school after the 2 years as you become more expensive? How can you easily tell what the regional demand is for your subject ( she hasn't quite decided where to live, or how wide to cast her net)?

Honestly all advice and considerations appreciated! TIA 😊

I assume you mean she has completed a PGCE and is now looking for a post to complete her early career teacher period- this is the 2 years you mention.
She can start by looking at the government Teaching Vacancies website, it currently has 88 history posts advertised. But local authorities, academy trusts and some recruitment agencies also advertise vacancies. So she might need to narrow the area of her search first, or just look everywhere she would consider living and see what is available!
Most teacher stay at their ECT school for the two years but it's not absolutely essential, just easier. After that, you are still relatively cheap so it's probably easier to find a post than if you were on top of the pay scale.

First stop should be the university careers service, and I would expect the course tutors to organise careers-focused events with advice on writing applications, optimising CVs etc. Our SCITT certainly does this and I would hope university-centred training providers do the same.

Thank you for the comments and tips. She's mid way through her pgce year, on her second placement

Will get her looking in appropriate places. Any other thoughts also welcome