Anyone from the teaching profession on here?

Would like some advice on how to get into FE (adult numeracy) please.

Serious replies only ta very much.

 

Sorry, I'm a teacher but as I teach primary I can't really be of help. Are you wanting to study adult numeracy or teach it?

 

My serious reply is that my ex was a teacher and to be quite honest from that experience, people only go into teaching if they can't find a job anywhere else. Excluding at university level but understanding that universities are not every so called universities that were colleges in another life and are now churning out degrees like cars on a production line that are meaningless pieces of paper. Standards have deteriated beyond belief.

 

I have wanted to be a teacher since I was 6. I assure you that I could have very easily found jobs elsewhere with my A*-Bs at GCSE, As at A-level (pre A* being introduced) and First Class degree with Hons.

 

Can only tell you my experience and I've met many teachers in my life and all have the same qualities, these bring boring insipid characters with no imagination, and what's more scary is that these people are educating our children. Not saying everyone is the same and I'm sure that you don't fit the mould, but this is the generality I have found

 

I've heard that before......or at least something along those lines such as 'those that can do, those that can't teach' - generally from someone who has a severe lack of appreciation of what it takes to be a teacher/lecturer

 

sounds like the break up wasn't amicable

 

Job centre plus does loads of adult numeracy as does the Council, Adult Ed. i would imagine you would need a degree and a pgce or equivilant. Trained as a teacher me... loved teaching younger kids (they all go rapidly down hill after age 6), hated all the paperwork and national curriculum stuff. Northern college does adult numeracy and computer skills and their really approachable. Spelling was niver my string pint.

 

If you are wanting a route into teaching adult numeracy then contact BMBC's Adult Education Section. I am sure they should point out the path you need to take.

See link https://www2.barnsley.gov.uk/servic...ty-learning/contact-adult-and-family-learning

 

Quite true but doesn't cloud my judgement, honest...

 

You obviously have no idea about what teaching is actually like. I will let you teach my classes for a week Dubai Tyke and then see if you still think people only go into the job because they can't get a job elsewhere.

 

Many thanks Tosh - much appreciated - I was tempted to say gotta new Toshiba? - but I won't

 

I can see it's hard these days as you guys get abused from the kids, can't be quite as bad as the days when I was a student at Worsbrough high tho ( glad that place was demolished) but tbh who would take that if they couldn't do anything else. But that wasn't my point, was saying that the majority of junior teachers are boring people, I fell asleep in their conversation. Was only envigorated by the educational system at proper university.

 

The kids are the least of my worries.

I find your generalisations quite inflammatory, designed to offend and very far from the OP.

Shame that.

 

Shame on me then for pointing out some of the problems with the educational system. I remember clearly in my time, and I guess it hasn't generally changed since, when the kids who couldn't hack it turned to teacher training as it was an easy option and a big party for a couple of years. And I know these guys were binge drinking and the best lay in town was either a nurse or a trainee teacher. So we had a whole generation of this type of person teaching our children. As a result standards have dropped, irrespective of the statistics which are skewed due to easier exams. I wonder how many now can recite the simplest times table, who know how to calculate without a calculator, who can complete homework without google....it goes on.

 

All things I try to encourage in my students. (I'm a Science teacher.) However the technology is there and they choose to use it..... as it's errrr...... there.

Do you still wash your clothes in a bucket, rub them on a washboard and stick them through a mangle?.... Didn't think so.

What's your profession, just out of interest, [MENTION=119697]Dubai Tyke[/MENTION]?

 

I'll second you there, mate.

 

In response to the OP. This might help.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/tutors/professional-development

 

Jesus

 

See. Migration does have its benefits for the UK. It gets rid of you