Francisco Said:

teaching qualifications - uk?

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To be honest a lot of secondary schools, especially those with sixth form will employ you with a Post 16 Qualification - you can then work on the unqualified pay scale and the school can help you gain your QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) by offering you training similar to that of a newly qualified teacher! The school get money to help you do this so it is a bonus for them and obviously also in their best interest as you are employed by them! - I think it is an easier and far more enjoyable option than going back into college again!!

I started off working in secondary school with a 16+ and got QTS within two terms! Have been in secondary Education for 7 years now and love it. You just need to keep every scrap of evidence to prove you know what you are talking about!
Best of luck!

Melissa Said:

can i teach in canada with uk teaching qualifications?

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It depends on what you want to teach and where. If you are a professor or a university lecturer, technical or vocational school instructor, or college instructor, the rules are much different, and you could quite likely teach in Canada. Each university or school has its own criteria, depending on their needs, curricula, etc., and you would have to check them out individually.

However, if you want to teach in elementary or high school in Canada, it is quite differnt. You need to have your UK qualifications evaluated to determine where you would fit in Canadian certification. This is different for each province, so you would need to submit your transcripts, UK teaching credentials, certificate of good conduct from your police, and possibly other documents to the specific Department or Ministry of Education of the province or territory you are interested in. Most provinces in Canada now require two degrees to teach in elementary and secondary schools - an undergraduate degree in some "teachable" subject area (math, English, French, music, history, etc.) plus a teaching degree. I have friends with UK credentials who did not have university degrees and they had difficulty getting certification to teach in Canada.

While teachers in Canada are certified by provincial Minsitries or Departemtns of Education, they are hired by individual school boards and school districts. Each province and trerritory has several different boards or districts.

If you are willing to go to an area of Canada where there are teacher shortages, especially in some specific subject areas (mostly French, special education, math, technology) there may be special allowances. These areas are mostly isolated rural areas.

If you have any specialist teaching certificate, such as additional qualifications in guidance, counseling, assessment, music, physical education, technology, special education, French, educational psychology, speech langauge pathology, administration, it will be much easier for you to gert a job. There are always vacancies in those areas.

There is a procedure that must be followed in most provinces before hiring teachers internationally. The school district must show they have exhausted the possibilities of hiring locally, provincially, and nationally. However, if you are a landed immigrant the rules are pretty much the same for you as for Canadians.

Go to the wesite http://www.educationcanada.com/ and you will see what teaching positions are currently advertised in Canada. This includes only those positions employers choose to list on this website of course. But it will also give you information about school districts, contact names and e-mail addrsses, etc. At any given time many other teaching positions are being advertised in local papers.

Also do an Internet search to get to the websites of each provincial government and go to their ministries or departments of education. Most of them list criteria for teacher certification and will give you contact names and numbers. Additionally, do a search for each provincial teacher association/union and you will probably see the current collective agreements, salary scales, etc.

Good luck with it. There are lots of opportunities in Canada. Teachers are paid much better in Canada than in the US for example. YOu will probably just have to do a bit of legwork and research to see where you could fit in the Canadian system.