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Top Tips to Get the Perfect Teaching Job

January 11, 2016 / / Comments Off on Top Tips to Get the Perfect Teaching Job

In the job market these days, there is always a rush for the perfect job that pays the bills and offers a standard work satisfaction. While many find it difficult to land the job of their dreams, those who are interested in primary teacher jobs might find the tips in this article beneficial. With the adequate degree and the right mindset, almost anyone who is interested will find some use for their teaching skills in the job scenario today. The following are some much researched tips that are sure to assist one in landing primary school teacher jobs.

Top Tips for Primary Teacher Jobs

Building the CV: While everyone who appears for any job interview has a CV to hand in, the one thing that should be included in the CV of a prospective teacher is a solid work experience that concerns any aspect of teaching. While some might find it difficult to do so in the case of first time job applications, it is a good idea to include some NGO work and social service hours that they might have put in. This is one of the few things that tend to incline the interviewer favourably towards the applicant.

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Choosing a nursery for your child

December 23, 2015 / / Comments Off on Choosing a nursery for your child

Choosing a child’s fist school can be a very hard task, but this is also true of choosing a child’s first nursery setting.

With education taking a massive part in nurseries now, it is essential to get your child in to a good setting to give them the knowledge they need for when they start school. It can be hard to know how to compare one nursery to the next but Ofsted reports can prove vital in these situations.

All nurseries are marked on the same criteria, so you can compare the results accurately. The setting will be marked on certain areas and then given an overall result which would be outstanding, good, notice to improve or inadequate. Many funding programs will not fund a place for a child at a nursery setting that have achieved below good for their last Ofsted inspection.

Ideally you should visit a couple of nurseries to see how you and your child feels about the place before committing to a place.

Teaching in an independent school

November 30, 2015 / / Comments Off on Teaching in an independent school

There are two main types of schools; independent (also known as a private school) and state school (or public school). As a teacher there are differences in teaching in these type types of school.

An Independent school has more control over what they teach and how they teach it as they are not subsidised by the government, instead the fee paying parents and donors cover the cost. This also gives them more control over who they can hire.

The relative lack of regulatory guidelines for fee-paying schools does mean there can be more variety when it comes to pay, benefits and working environment.

One off the main benefits in teaching at an independent school is that you will be teaching classes of smaller sizes, and because money is not as much of an issue, resources are not stretched so far as in a public school. For teachers this means a greater ability to control classes of pupils and to give more attention to individual pupils.

 

 

Splitting up the classroom

November 1, 2015 / / Comments Off on Splitting up the classroom

It has been standard practice for a number of years, for teachers to separate classes in to ability. This was because they often thought that it would be easier for the teacher and for the pupils if they could have work tailored specifically to that group of students.

Recent studies have showed that there is actually no evidence that this has any positive impact on a pupils learning and can actually hinder it. If as child is always bottom of their set they can get disheartened and they may then actually not bother putting as much effort in to learning.

Teaching the class as a whole has shown to be beneficial. The work that is created by the teacher should have a number of levels to it, so there is task for everyone to complete at the basic level and then each child can progress on to the harder tasks as they complete the previous one. This means there is no finish as such as the children who are of high ability can carry on experimenting with more complex options.

Are supply teachers failing our pupils?

September 29, 2015 / / Comments Off on Are supply teachers failing our pupils?

A recent report has been published questioning whether supply teachers are fulfilling their roles and educating our children to the level they need to be. This report comes after Ofsted has found that supply teachers in secondary schools are four times more likely than permanent teachers to give sub-standard lessons. Only one third of schools in the UK has a reliable pool of staff that they can call on to come in and cover lessons should they need to. Other schools have to hire staff that they may never have met before and that may be substandard.

These statistics are worrying but we do need to remember that this does not apply to all supply teachers as there are some great ones out there who go the extra mile to ensure their lessons are taught to an exceptional standard.

Teaching agencies can offer a great service to schools, finding staff very quickly for them but schools need to check with the agency as to how they evaluate the supply teachers abilities.

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