Quote from: Jamoe;165568To be a teacher you would need todo a 1 year pgce assuming you already have a degree.
(http://www.tda.gov.uk/Recruit/thetrainingprocess/typesofcourse/pgce.aspx)
If you can put up with long hours, ungratefull parents that have no clue what it takes to do the job (and think they can do it better), government that thinks paperwork is more important then the kids and wish to end all gaming time you ever had, then cool.
As for holidays.. my wife works for at least 50% of them, and considering she easily works 8:00 - 6:00 (gets home at 7) and does 2 hours every night, and at least 1 day at the weekend, they soon find by the time the holidays come they are exhausted.
What keeps my wife going? the kids do, she loves being in the class room teaching. But this leads to emotional blackmail as you don't want to let the kids down...
Money is ok once you've started to go up the pay ladder. Start on about 19K, top pay is about 28K (in lincolnshire for a general teacher), then you have to prove you are worth more to get over the threshhold.
/rant :taz:
and thats primary education.
yup my mums a deputy at primary school and spends pretty much all her weekday evenings doing work then at weekend most of sunday afternoon and evening working, then various goveners meetings and staff meetings each week in the evening and the extra things like school shows and things that they are expected to put on. she does rope me into putting up and taking down wall displays though!!
and shes from lincolnshire strangly enough lol
