Tom
I am a FH squatter
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I'm starting to seriously consider a new career, in teaching young children, and would appreciate some advice.
I know I need a degree qualification (I have GCSEs C and above, and a National Diploma, but nothing more), and I was thinking either English, or more specifically, History (an interest of mine).
The trouble for me is that I haven't got the foggiest idea of how any of this works. I need to keep working, and so I can't study full-time (and don't want to either); any study would have to be on a part-time basis.
I thought maybe become a supply teacher, or teaching assistant to begin with, and see how it goes. It would take a very significant fall in my income to make me give up working in television, but the future of this industry is by no means certain, and one only lives once. I find myself wondering if I can combine the two careers successfully. The other side to this is that quite frankly I'm getting rather sick of some of the people I find myself working with, who seem only to care about ticking boxes, rather than being creative and producing something to be proud of. I enjoy writing articles on Wikipedia, as I find the process to be an excellent way of learning about subjects that interest me, and I also enjoy speaking to my mates about some of the more bizarre incidents in history I've covered—they seem very much to appreciate it. I think I could relate such things quite well, to children.
I know I need a degree qualification (I have GCSEs C and above, and a National Diploma, but nothing more), and I was thinking either English, or more specifically, History (an interest of mine).
The trouble for me is that I haven't got the foggiest idea of how any of this works. I need to keep working, and so I can't study full-time (and don't want to either); any study would have to be on a part-time basis.
I thought maybe become a supply teacher, or teaching assistant to begin with, and see how it goes. It would take a very significant fall in my income to make me give up working in television, but the future of this industry is by no means certain, and one only lives once. I find myself wondering if I can combine the two careers successfully. The other side to this is that quite frankly I'm getting rather sick of some of the people I find myself working with, who seem only to care about ticking boxes, rather than being creative and producing something to be proud of. I enjoy writing articles on Wikipedia, as I find the process to be an excellent way of learning about subjects that interest me, and I also enjoy speaking to my mates about some of the more bizarre incidents in history I've covered—they seem very much to appreciate it. I think I could relate such things quite well, to children.