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Table of Contents
3 - London Teaching Jobs
5 - UK Teaching Agencies
7 - Teaching Jobs UK
9 - Teaching in the UK
11 - Teaching Agencies London
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Set Out for a Rewarding Career with London
Teaching Jobs
You might not have considered it while you were finishing your
bachelor’s degree at the university but you’ve always found an interest
in teaching. Whether this interest manifested itself through paid
tutorials you’ve conducted or through volunteer work at the local
community centre, people have always responded positively to your
methods. You remember the feeling of great satisfaction from suchfeedbacks and now the idea of actually settling into a teaching
profession is becoming abundantly clear. Can London teaching jobs
provide lucrative opportunities as well as career satisfaction?
While your purpose for going into teaching isn’t necessarily driven by
aspirations for great financial gain, you would still need to know if your
teacher’s wages would meet your current financial needs. Whether
you’re single, married with kids or the sole provider of your family, bills
that have to pay off, perhaps even a mortgage, incidental expenses that
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require funding, and other such financial concerns need to be
addressed.
Teaching jobs in the U.K. can be as financially rewarding as a job in the
corporate world. In fact, Education Secretary Michael Grove has recentlysent his recommendations regarding teacher’s pay reforms to the School
Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). According
to the news release from the Department for Education (DfE),
Secretary Grove has outlined arrangements that will sufficiently reward
teachers who have performed well and ensure that the finest teachers
who work in challenging school environments are given incentives. The
Secretary hopes to attract a number of high performing graduates and
exceptional professionals into the teaching profession. Incidentally, the
recommended reforms have also been in response to a comprehensive
survey of teachers who fully advocate increase in annual salaries based
on good performance.
The average annual salary, as released by the DfE, for a qualified teacher
is set at £22,800 while highly experienced teachers enjoy astonishingly
good earnings at £64,000 within London and £56,000 outside of London.
The DfE goes on to add that head teachers can receive wages frombetween £42,379 and £112,000. And these are just the annual salaries.
As a qualified teacher, you can also enjoy benefits that could include
teaching and learning responsibilities payments, which means you get
additional monetary reward for taking on other duties and home
ownership assistance.
Indeed, by looking into London teaching jobs, you can achieve financial
rewards and be on a fast track to career growth. Through Secretary
Grove’s initiatives towards further upgrading the standards of educationwith the recommended pay reforms, the teaching profession promises
to provide lucrative opportunities for many future educators — and that
includes you.
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undergo the ITT while finishing your bachelor’s degree or right after
graduation. The U.K.’s concerned agencies ensure that sufficient support
for would-be teachers such as yourself is afforded with the
convenience—whatever your situation—of acquiring the necessary
credentials.
If you’re anxious about your classroom skills but have a complete
mastery of your chosen subject, the school-centred ITT (SCITT) provides
programmes designed for classroom training. An SCITT course, which
runs for a year and requires a bachelor’s degree to be eligible, will lead
you to achieve qualified teaching status.
Once you’ve obtained the required credentials, teaching agencies can
help you source out teaching posts and match you perfectly to the ideal
school anywhere in England or Wales. UK agencies will also offer
training courses to enhance your skills and even provide career
consultancy in the event that you find yourself wavering about your role
in school.
Training as a teacher rarely ends when you’ve finally been awarded a
post in any school in the U.K., or anywhere in the world for that matter.
As the primary source of knowledge for a majority of young minds, it isyour grand duty to constantly learn and to always question and explore
for the sake of your young students. Perhaps Albert Einstein puts it best
with, “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at
death.” Fortunately, with the government offering adequate support
and UK teaching agencies providing sufficient information as well further
training, your advancement as an educator will certainly be attainable.
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How to Get Into Teaching Jobs UK Schools Offer
Teaching in the U.K. can be a very rewarding experience, and not only
because certain reforms with regard to wages are being introduced in
the education system. With class sizes at the very minimum in
comparison to other class sizes across the globe and the accessibility of adequate resources and facilities in all schools, the teaching jobs UK
schools offer are becoming ideal career choices for university graduates
and even qualified professionals. In order to maintain a high level of
standard, the British government has instituted proper training
programmes before you can achieve qualified teacher status.
You can get into teaching by going through several options. The most
sensible route would be to acquire a bachelor’s degree in education. A
BEd course, which incorporates Initial Teacher Training (ITT), normallylasts up to four years but that’s when you’re studying full-time.
However, taken part-time, the BEd can last for as long as six years.
An undergraduate degree can still help you take the ITT, which is
supervised by The Teaching Agency. Under the ITT, you’ll be given a
thorough training and be rated accordingly. There are a variety of ITT
courses, which cover teaching principles along with practical application
in a classroom setting, and these will correspond to the desired subject
you wish to teach and the preferred age group you want to instruct. The
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ITT is a requisite for achieving qualified teacher status, which you will
then need to get a job in any school.
If you prefer to teach in the advance level, you can opt to go for an ITT
course designed for the secondary level. Each course is created to suityour specific situation or circumstance — one doesn’t even require you
to leave your home. When you’re currently employed or are the prime
caregivers in your family but have an unwavering goal to become a
teacher, there are online ITT courses to help you prepare and train from
your house.
The U.K. is also open to trained teachers from overseas and from outside
the European Economic Union. If this applies to you, you can still teach
and be given a temporary unqualified status until you're able to achieve
your qualified teacher status. Unfortunately, you will be limited to
schools within England as other locations in the U.K. call for different
requirements to get a teaching status.
The genius of the British education system when it comes to recruiting
educators is that it allows everyone to arrive to a definite decision first
before committing to the profession. If you are not entirely convinced
about becoming a teacher, you can arrange to spend time in aclassroom. Granted you have spent your share of classroom
attendance—from early school to the university—however, the School
Experience Programme (SEP) does more than just let you sit in a
classroom. Apart from allowing you to observe in class and immerse in
the daily management of a school, the SEP will give you an opportunity
to engage an entire class as a teaching assistant, planning and delivering
an actual lesson.
With all the existing resources, programmes, and training offered by theconcerned agencies, you’ll be well prepared for any teaching jobs UK
schools have to offer.
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What Awaits You When You Return to Teaching
in the UK
There will come a time in every teacher’s life when, well, life happens. It
could either be a newborn in the family, a sudden illness, or it could justbe a mere case of exhaustion. None of these reasons mean, however,
that a commitment to the profession has wavered and the passion for
teaching has somehow been extinguished. On the contrary, your life as a
teacher has never been more valuable to you than it is today. But you
need to take a break. Will you still have a place teaching in the UK if you
decide to take a sabbatical?
Indeed, you do. The Teaching Agency makes it possible for returning
teachers to still have a place in the school system. Because there are areported 8,000 to 10,000 teachers returning to their jobs every year, The
Teaching Agency has launched a support programme to ease the
transition back into classrooms. The Agency’s Return to Teaching
Programme (RTTP) provides invaluable advice and support for any
educator who signs up. You will, of course, need to be eligible for the
RTTP, which means possessing a qualified teacher status for primary or
secondary level.
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The RTTP will provide a post-Initial Teacher Training (ITT) subject
knowledge enhancement. Like an intensive refresher course, the post-
ITT is particularly designed to amplify your knowledge in physics,
mathematics, and science. This is then ideal if you have either previously
specialised in the subjects or have had some experience teaching saidsubjects in the past and would then want to increase your knowledge
further.
When your sabbatical has taken longer than you expected, you may
experience some apprehension over returning to a classroom to manage
and instruct an entire class. You may have anxiety over how your new
students might receive you and you wonder whether your methods
would still be effective with the current batch of students. The Teaching
Agency’s support programme can address your anxieties with the School
Experience Programme (SEP), which should allow you to become
familiar once again with classroom dynamics.
If you aren’t quite ready just yet to enter a classroom, the Teaching
Advocate Programme will give advice and answer any enquiries that
might trouble you. The teaching advocates can relate their own
experiences lecturing in the current school environment, introduce you
to new teaching practices, and they can present objective but honestanswers.
Your dedication as a teacher can never come into question should you
decide to take a break from school life. Whether your intention is to
focus more time on your growing family, to regain that zeal and passion
for shaping young minds, or to expand your wisdom to better educate
your students, you’ll still find an important place teaching in the UK. The
accessibility of support and re-training programmes will allow your
transition back into the classroom in a seamless manner as to make itseem like you never really left at all.
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Teaching Agencies London Hire the Most
Qualified Candidates
The standard of education in the U.K. is exceptionally high. The
government continually refines its policies and arranges for support and
programmes that enhance the skills and knowledge of every qualified
teacher. Stringent requirements are implemented before pertinent
qualifications are achieved. To supplement the benchmarks established
by the government for top notch educators, teaching agencies London
(or elsewhere in the U.K.) also establish their own meticulous screening
process in recruiting teachers for schools across the city.
Recruitment agencies that specialise in hiring teachers and even school
support staff require candidates to furnish teaching credentials as
mandated by British laws. These credentials are then scrutinised to
ensure that the candidate can provide the high level of instruction
necessary. Examining the candidates’ education, training, and
experience is just part of the screening process. For recruitment
agencies that have passed the Department for Education’s Quality Mark
Audit, a thorough background check of the candidate is also performed
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with great care. Teachers, after all, will be working with minors so it is
absolutely crucial to hire candidates who have spotless records.
Criminal record checks are therefore necessary. Particularly when in the
past, the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) revealed how 4, 098 teacherswere ultimately found as, to put it mildly, unfit teachers. A reputable
recruitment agency’s criminal records check will include an overseas
police clearance if the candidate is from another country, and a CRB
Enhanced Disclosure, which is used by public, private, and volunteer
organisations for positions that involve significant contact with children
and vulnerable adults.
Recruitment firms also offer other services besides providing job
opportunities for teachers. Schools can rely on these recruitment
agencies to also provide free training courses, which can significantly
improve upon the skills of a teacher. These agencies can also give
professional advice by using qualified consultants to assist teachers with
their career. These necessary support systems aid not only the teachers
themselves but the schools looking to hire as well.
The Department for Education strives to establish better policies in
education and endeavours to create reforms that benefit teachersacross the country. The reforms, for wages in particular, are aimed at
attracting more qualified university graduates and talented
professionals. Meanwhile, The Teaching Agency serves to provide crucial
support and resources to ensure that teachers meet and maintain the
standards set by the government.
The role of teaching agencies London (and everywhere else in the U.K.)
is to act as kind of the final screening process of teachers for schools
that need to fill positions. With their thorough and systematic selectionand other programmes, schools everywhere can rest assured that
students will be receiving the best education.
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