Qualifications?

[manda]

Hi,

I don't know if I've put this in the right place so feel free to move the post if not.

I've only been teaching on supply for a month or so but it has really
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e me think about what I want to do when i qualify.

I'm currently finishing my degree, (
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) it should be done in a year or so. I am with select at the moment doing TAing and cover supervising in secondary schools. After the experiences I have had in different schools I have decided that I want to teach kids with SEN and wondered if getting QTS would be any different. I was going to try for a GTP, would this still be OK for SEN?


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[NuttySupplier]

I'm sure it would be. If you're a teacher, it's once you've qualified that you start to turn towards SEN with which courses you choose, after your NQT year too. You really need to make sure placements etc. are suitable and start gathering evidence of course attendance and experience as soon as you can. I think in particular with SEN it helps to have done voluntary work in this area. Search for the member name JoGr8 and see what she had done... she's working in SEN now, but wasn't at first...

And thanks for the chocolate!

[Gnomoospan]

Once you've qualified you can look for sen placement jobs, but I would advise you go for mainstream first so you get that experience, you're bound to have sen kids within your school. When you've done a
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of years you might want to look for posts in sen schools, and/or get on some courses for certain areas of sen like autism/dyslexia/speech and lang etc.
I am in my 11th year of teaching and I was
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e senco this year without much prior experience (I taught overseas for 8 years and spec needs were not quite dealt with in the same way) and I am literally learning on the job, but it is much more interesting than I thought it was going to be.

[manda]

Thanks for the advice. I'm going to let the agency know what I want to do and hopefully they will try and get me some experience with SEN.