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Damini

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Does anyone here have any experience with teacher training? I'm mildly toying with the idea of becoming an English teacher (long holidays, time to write) but I'm not really sure how to go about it. Also, being dyslexic I might not be the best person to mark grammar and so on. Anyone here done teacher training? How long does it take? I've got a degree in drama but I don't want to teach it (poncing about in a black polo neck teaching breathing exercises and encouraging people to find their inner motivation leaves me cold). Is the pay dire? I've looked at the website and it's not really helped me at all.
 
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SoWat

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Whilst dyslexia may be no barrier for a great number of jobs, I'm not sure that teaching English is one of them!

I'm pretty sure that teaching drama in schools isn't all deep breathing and black tights, so may be worth reconsidering :)
 
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7th

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Having worked in a school for the best part of a year now, I'd strongly advise against teaching. ever. but then i guess it's a personal thing.

of the teachers I've encountered, 90% of them are power hungry screeching being who seem to enjoy wailing at children in the corridors because they dared to walk to their next lesson. i wouldn't let my children within a 10 mile radius of them.

the other 10%, i wish i had them for teachers when i was at school.

I hope for the sake of our nations youth (queue rousing cheer) that you'll fit the 10% described above :)

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Damini

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Thing is, I got A* in my GCSE's in English and A at A-level, so its not that I'm not good at English, but I think the marking side might let me down. I've sent a question to the UseYourHead people, but I find that website a bit confusing.

I just want to know how long I'd have to train for, and how much cash I can get while training. I don't see me teaching forever, just for long enough to get my writing going without me having to turn tricks on street corners to pay the gas and leccy bills.
 
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dysfunction

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To ensure that trainee teachers spend at least the following amounts of time being trained in schools, recognising that a trainee's former experience of working with pupils may count towards these totals:

32 weeks for all four year undergraduate programmes

24 weeks for all two and three year undergraduate programmes

24 weeks for all secondary and Key Stage 2/3 postgraduate programmes

18 weeks for all primary postgraduate programmes
Each trainee teacher must have experience in at least two schools. Time in schools may be completed on a part-time basis to make up the full-time equivalent amounts above. Teaching in settings other than schools may also count towards these totals provided they enable trainee teachers to work towards the
achievement of the Standards;
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Sawtooth

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Originally posted by Damini
Thing is, I got A* in my GCSE's in English and A at A-level, so its not that I'm not good at English, but I think the marking side might let me down. I've sent a question to the UseYourHead people, but I find that website a bit confusing.

I just want to know how long I'd have to train for, and how much cash I can get while training. I don't see me teaching forever, just for long enough to get my writing going without me having to turn tricks on street corners to pay the gas and leccy bills.
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You mean like David Blane? /:)
 
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Rubric

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Originally posted by Damini
Thing is, I got A* in my GCSE's in English and A at A-level, so its not that I'm not good at English, but I think the marking side might let me down. I've sent a question to the UseYourHead people, but I find that website a bit confusing.

I just want to know how long I'd have to train for, and how much cash I can get while training. I don't see me teaching forever, just for long enough to get my writing going without me having to turn tricks on street corners to pay the gas and leccy bills.
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Training time sees to depend on what age group you want to teach. You can do on the job training for some areas. The money is not great though. About 14k.

Primary school teaching would appear to be the easiest to get into.

EDIT: i believe there are also some grants etc available as there is a bit of a shortage.
 
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7th

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Originally posted by Rubric
Primary school teaching would appear to be the easiest to get into.
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Given the choice of what age group to teach, it'd be infant / primary / higher education

i don't think i'd touch secondary education with a 40 foot barge pole.

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Damini

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Secondary school is what I'd want to teach. I know the kids will be demonic little shits, but brain rot would set it teaching kids to cover poems with glitter and write letters to Santa.
 
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dysfunction

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Originally posted by Rubric
Training time sees to depend on what age group you want to teach.
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Yes. Please see my earlier post for more details...
 
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Deadmanwalking

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Originally posted by Damini
Secondary school is what I'd want to teach. I know the kids will be demonic little shits, but brain rot would set it teaching kids to cover poems with glitter and write letters to Santa.
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Don't!!! Just f**king don't.

I am in college now after 5 years in a shit hole they called Secondary School. If you want to teach at A-Level, it cuts out half of the complete wankers. Trust me on this one i just came out of it barely alive.
 
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Rubric

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At least teaching A level you will find most of the people will want to be there.
 
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Damini

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Originally posted by Deadmanwalking.
Don't!!! Just f**king don't.

I am in college now after 5 years in a shit hole they called Secondary School. If you want to teach at A-Level, it cuts out half of the complete wankers. Trust me on this one i just came out of it barely alive.
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Seriously? Is it that appalling? What's so bad about it? I'm expecting gobby little kids that don't really want to learn, and the occasional chair being thrown at me (thinking back to my experiences at Bognor School). Is it worse than that?
 
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Rubric

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Originally posted by Damini
Seriously? Is it that appalling? What's so bad about it? I'm expecting gobby little kids that don't really want to learn, and the occasional chair being thrown at me (thinking back to my experiences at Bognor School). Is it worse than that?
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Bognor as in Bognor Regis?

I live just down the road from there.
 
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Damini

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The one and only Bognor Regis Community College (aka Bognor Regis Concentration Camp).
 
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Rubric

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Originally posted by Damini
The one and only Bognor Regis Community College (aka Bognor Regis Concentration Camp).
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Are you from Sussex then? And do you still live in the area?
 
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7th

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from my viewpoint, as "site staff" at a secondary school, yes it really is as bad as that Damini :)

the 6th formers are atleast polite enough to hold doors open etc.. but the little scrotes from years 7 to 11.. i wont touch on that subject too much though my opinion is shared with my co-workers :)

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Jupitus

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Don't = bullshit... it's quite obvious that our schools NEED better teaching staff, and if it's of interest to you Dam, go for it. I'd be more than happy for you to be teaching my lad English or drama, to be honest.
 
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Damini

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Good god no, I don't live in the area anymore. Fled as soon as humanly possible.
 
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7th

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Originally posted by Damini
Good god no, I don't live in the area anymore. Fled as soon as humanly possible.
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a wise move indeed. i spent 2 months living in bognor a few years back, sleeping on a mates sofa until we could find accomodation nearer chichester

apart from the old people, the annoying little shites hanging outside mcdonalds and the general bad stigma attached to it, its not *that* bad a place... except for that club on the pier... though me and my mate did joke regularly about the barbed wire around the butlins camp.....

was it there to keep people out or to keep them in :D

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Rubric

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Originally posted by leggy
Nice,

we have a stalker :)
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Lol nah not at all.

It was just that i remember seeing the BBC story articel and thought "Oh there used to be a girl at my school with that name".

Then seeing that Damini spent some time in Sussex i wondered if it was her.
 
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Rubric

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Originally posted by 7th
a wise move indeed. i spent 2 months living in bognor a few years back, sleeping on a mates sofa until we could find accomodation nearer chichester

apart from the old people, the annoying little shites hanging outside mcdonalds and the general bad stigma attached to it, its not *that* bad a place... except for that club on the pier... though me and my mate did joke regularly about the barbed wire around the butlins camp.....

was it there to keep people out or to keep them in :D

7th
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Dont forget the shooting at the railway inn a year or two ago.
 
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Damini

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There's nothing for people to do in Bognor except for work in Macdonalds or some other dead end sales job, or to end up doing something criminal, or to mass produce babies. It's a cess pit of social atrophy, and I hate it.
 
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old.D0LLySh33p

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I'll be applying for a PGCE course for next years intake.

Also to teach English :D
 
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