Training to be a primary school teacher?
I currently am a house wife looking after my 3 month old daughter, but am also a qualified accountant. I am seriously considering re-training to become a primary school teacher. I would need to be at home whilst learning, or maybe just be in uni for a day a week. Is this possible? How long will it take?
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Answer 1 :
I'm also training to become a primary school teacher, and I study with the Open University - cause I need a national curriculum degree - in the evenings and weekends when I'm with my kids. It's hard but worthwhile and 2 more years I'm ready for PGCE
Answer 2 :
my friend qualified with an english degree and has just completed her pgce. Its very hard work and you have to go on work placements in schools and be assessed. She has had sooo much work to do assignments after assignments. She doesnt have any children so could commit to all the work. Im not sure if you could do it like that. Maybe you could do early learning course with open university or something but even with that you would have to be placed in a school for practical. Go on the open university website that shows you what course are available and what is involved.
Answer 3 :
There are TONS of on-line classes. I'm sure that a university near you offers many. I was a single mom working full time and going to night school to become an elementary teacher. I just graduated in December. I know it sounds backwards, but being away from your child gets harder as they get older and he/she actually understands that you are going away for a little bit. Once you get into a routine with a daycare or babysitter it is a lot easier. It takes a LOT of sacrifices, from everyone in the family. Your husband or significant other must understand that this is something very important to you. You won't have as much time with friends either. Your child won't be affected by you being gone as much as you think. It would only be a few days or nights a week. And yes they do offer one day a week classes, most of them are about 3 hours long each. It's all worth it! After my associates, It took about 2 years of going full time. So if you go part time and during the summer your looking at about 3 years. Hope this helped. Good luck and don't stress out, it goes by fast.
Answer 4 :
Presume you are in UK. If you already have a degree then you can do a PGCE but this will require significant blocks of working in a school. Don't know where you live, butr Sheffield Hallam University do a part-time PGCE intended for people like yourself because it is spread over two years instead of the usual two. Don't know if Open University actually do a teaching qualification but they might. Actual requirements can be found at TDA link below.
Answer 5 :
If you have your first degree it will take you one year full time and two years part time. Not sure about online courses, would seem strange as alot of the work of a primary teacher is extremely practical. Either way, you would be required to do blocks of placement teaching in schools so you would need to have some kind of childcare available for that. Just like to add, there are very few jobs in primary teaching at the moment. Universities have been churning out newly qualified teachers and with the new probationer scheme running, (you have a job guaranteed for one year after finishing uni) schools are filling vacancies with probationers as they have to find them places and they also get paid less. If you can get job it can be very rewarding but definitely hard work. Good luck with whatever you decide.
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