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Becoming a teacher

• Ways of getting into teaching
  • Your route to teacher training
• What age group would you like to teach?
  • Teaching primary
    • Primary languages teacher training
  • Teaching secondary
• What subject would you like to teach?
• Starting salary
• Induction year
• Looking for a job
  • Local authority (LA) vacancies
• Where do I go from here?
• Useful links
• Funding ITT

Teacher training

• Basic requirements
• Types of course
  • Undergraduate teacher training
    • Bachelor of education (BEd)
    • BA/BSc with QTS
  • Postgraduate teacher training
    • Postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE)
    • School-centred initial teacher training
    • Search for postgraduate courses
  • Employment-based teacher training
    • Graduate Teacher Programme
      • About the GTP
      • How to apply for the GTP
      • Popular questions about the GTP
    • Teach First
    • Registered Teacher Programme
  • Assessment-based training
  • Overseas Trained Teacher Programme
• Choosing a course
• Types of training provider
  • Universities and colleges
  • SCITT providers
• Compare training providers
  • Performance profiles
  • Search for a course
  • NQT analysis reports
  • Contact us
• Improve your subject knowledge
  • Subject knowledge enhancement courses
• Apply for teacher training
  • Your application
  • How and when to apply
  • Tips for application
  • Teacher training: application form assistant
  • Your interview
  • The interactive interview
    • Interactive interview questions, hints & tips
    • The interactive interview
• Funding for training in England
  • Funding for undergraduate teacher training
  • Funding for postgraduate teacher training
    • New postgraduate teacher training bursary rates for academic year 2010/11
  • Funding for employment-based teacher training
  • Golden hellos
• Funding for training in Wales
• Course content
  • School placement
• Qualified teacher status
  • QTS standards
  • QTS skills tests

Get teaching experience

• Visit a classroom
• Student Associates Scheme
  • Search for a Student Associates Scheme provider
  • Register for the Student Associates Scheme
• How exciting is your job?

Life as a teacher

• Career prospects and development
  • Continuing professional development (CPD)
• Pay and benefits
  • Salary scales
  • Unqualified teacher pay scale
  • Post-threshold pay scale
• The teaching timetable
  • The teaching week
  • The teaching day
• Teachers' stories
  • Andrew Samuels – design and technology teacher
  • David Wilson
  • Joanna Conn
  • Kalpana Patel
  • Noorizah Motala
  • Rudy Clarke - primary school teacher
  • Terry Abel
  • Richard Found, Science teacher
    • Richard Found, Science teacher
  • Beth Ashfield, Maths teacher
    • Beth Ashfield, Maths teacher
  • Paul Keogh, Modern Languages teacher
    • Paul Keogh, Modern Languages teacher
  • Elizabeth Doyle, ICT teacher
    • Elizabeth Doyle, ICT teacher
  • Jez Bennett, Music teacher
    • Jez Bennett, Music teacher
• A choice of schools
• Staff structure
• YouTube science lessons
• How does your job make you feel?
• Science - an explosive subject to teach
• Christmas Computing Conundrums

Advice and events

• Get telephone advice from the Teaching Information Line
• What's on where
• Online events
  • Online event transcripts
    • A new career in teaching
      • A new career in teaching 22
      • A new career in teaching 21
    • Application tips
    • Maths and science
    • Men into primary
      • Men into primary 1
    • Read transcripts of our Masters in Teaching and Learning online event
      • Masters in Teaching and Learning 1
      • Masters in Teaching and Learning 2
    • Routes into Teaching
      • Routes into teaching 28
      • Routes into teaching 27
• Speak to a teacher with the Teaching Advocate Programme
• Speak to a careers adviser
• Train to Teach events
• Transition to Teaching
  • Employers – why you should join
    • Participating organisations
    • Employer case studies
      • IBM case study
      • BT case study
      • Lockheed Martin UK case study
      • Thales UK case study
    • Employers' popular questions
    • Transition to Teaching employer registration
  • Individuals – why join the programme?
    • Teachers' stories
    • How to become a teacher
      • Teachers' degrees
      • Can I experience life in a school?
      • Can I get funding while I train?
      • How can I investigate the career?
      • What are the requirements for Transition to Teaching?
      • How can I boost my subject knowledge?
      • What are my teacher training options?
    • Teachers' salaries and progression
    • Transition to Teaching individual registration

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Teaching popular questions

• Becoming a teacher FAQs
• Teacher training FAQs
• Life as a teacher FAQs
• Registering and applying FAQs
• General FAQs