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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

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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

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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

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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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