Becoming a teacher.

[-Jason-]

Im debating training to become a pe teacher for primary school age children.

Does anyone know any info about what courses you need etc and if i need a degree?

Rep given for any help.

[rey]

im lookin into this for a career, your gona need a degree but i think you can do a course thing that has you fully qualified in 18 months if everything goes well.

Obviously your gonna need to have had the subject you want to do about to a-level standard, and with primary schools you dont just teach one subject?

So maybe thats something to look into mate

Hope what i've said has helped in some way!

[Sean]

degree plus one year PGCE after uni, or a 4 year teaching degree.

[Didz]

yeah you definately need a degree, not a lot of primary schools have teachers for seperate subjects they generally have to be able to teacher all lessons, not just pe.

a degree and PGCE will take you about 4 years in all to complete including work placements etc

[S34MER]

they might only be little kids, but they'll still bully you Jay lol :p

as Sean said, you'll need a degree of some sort, or a shed load of experience if not! :y:

[-Jason-]

Looks like im off to uni again lol

[Graham]

do primary school teachers get paid the same amount as high school teachers? lol

[Sean]

To teach PE in Primary schools you just do as I said above - 3 yr degree (4 yr in scotland) followed by a PGCE, or do the full Teaching Degree (4yrs up here not sure about England). You'll need work experience before they let you on any teaching course though, ideally as a classroom assistant or in the case of a PE teacher, teaching in a gym (spinning classes etc) is accepted. Once qualified as a PE teacher you then can apply for jobs in both scoendary and primary schools.
Graham- yes they do, works on a sliding scale starting at just over 19k on your probationary year after uni, then goes up by about 1500 a year after that.

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my bro is at uni training to be a primary teacher, wanting to specialise in pe, its a 4 year degree course, then a probation year, and then he can do post grad!