Talk about a copycat phrase. Can’t look at anything on social media without people referring to “PE teachers”. As a qualified PE Teacher you can all get lost.
Using BBS Logic... The facts A PE Teacher will get the new head coach role. Fired is a PE Teacher. Outcome Fired is the new Head Coach
As a fellow PE teacher, the phrase winds me up no end. Far more qualified folk have been brushed with that tool.
Having been taught by the legendary Ronnie Hallam, who scouted for Barnsley & bigger clubs, as well as YCC, it’s embarrassing & disrespectful..
PE teachers have the weirdest teaching job if you ask me. It seems so different to any other teachers job. Not really relevant I know but something I've always thought
I'm lost. A PE Teacher to me is the people at school that taught us what we called 'games' but wasn't necessarily a game as it could be gym work or running etc. Is that wrong?
I qualified but decided not to go i to teaching initially. At the time I was doing my first Teaching Practice in a Secondary School I was only 19 and scared to death. I preferred teaching Geography tbh. Ended up teaching in different guises further down the line.
Are primary school teachers less qualified than secondary? Or more qualified? Or is it just different? And a bit random but do you ever cover lessons these days since you became librarian?
I think what jay was wondering was what's the context of your complaint? In what context are people saying PE teachers that annoys you? My guess was it was a disparaging way to describe unknown football managers but I could be miles off
The same qualifications are needed for both primary and secondary, a degree with QTS ( qualified teacher status). Secondary school teachers are more likely to do a PGCE to get their qts. If you qualify as a teacher you can teach any age group.
I wasn’t being serious. Other than people taking a phrase spouting it because they saw it somewhere. A bit like the McGeehan 3 match ban joke. Vaguely amusing once. Just boring now.
Same qualified; QTS allows me to teach up to and including A-Level. I specialised in primary and history so I may be less likely to be employed at secondary as that's not where my experience lies, but I am qualified to do so. I was offered a job covering an English teacher's maternity leave during my first year at this school but I turned it down as I didn't want to get back into teaching full time. My teaching degree was 4 years, rather than a different degree and then a year doing a QTS, so I'd like to argue that I was more experienced at the time of getting my first teaching job as I spent much longer learning and practicing teaching. I don't cover lessons, no, but I do sometimes plan and teach lessons if I feel like it. For example, I will be teaching all of the year 7s for one lesson each during the first week of September and then I will invite year groups in for one-off lessons at points during the year. I can always choose not to though and I have complete control over what the lesson will be about.
May have changed since i trained but mine was a 4 year QTS and you had to specify Primary or Secondary. PE was Secondary only (where I trained) and you had to have a second subject.
Yep, I did a 4 year and specified Primary and history. The history element gave me points equivalent to half of a (second) degree and I sort of regret not continuing and earning the full history degree too. I wanted to get straight into teaching though so I didn't have time to and now the point credits have expired. Edited to clarify.
Oh that’s strange - I thought al 4 year courses came with the degree? (I thought that was the point?) Mine was an Honours degree in PE and Geography (with QTS)
