My Mrs has been a teacher for nearly 8 years now (I've only known her for 6). She's now Head of PE at an all-girls secondary, but used to teach PE & Maths at a middle class mixed comp.
She did a full teaching degree but PGCE is equally valid to get a job.
FWIW & IMHO, there is nothing as demanding as being a teacher during term time - most good teachers actually care about the kids they are teaching and consequently put the hours in to get the work done. We leave the house at 7:45 (it's 20 minute drive to her school) and she rarely gets home before 6pm. When she does get home, she'll often have work to do. A lot of this is HoD workload, and the extra work she does like fixtures, extra curricular activities (like Gym & Dance displays) or DoE, but I don't remember the workload being any less when she was just a regular teacher.
Report times are a special time of year, as are times when the curriculum changes (requires new schemes of work) - both requiring massive extra workloads. Often, she gets sick in the first week of the holidays as the stress is let off.
All of that said, I don't think she would rather do anything else (except play hockey for England, but i don't think that will happen soon
) - dealing with all of the crap that gets heaped on her is nothing compared to the satisfaction of seeing a light switch on in a kids head because of what she has done.
It's also an excellent job for a wife with kids - it's a very easy job to go back to part-time once you've dropped...
She did a full teaching degree but PGCE is equally valid to get a job.
FWIW & IMHO, there is nothing as demanding as being a teacher during term time - most good teachers actually care about the kids they are teaching and consequently put the hours in to get the work done. We leave the house at 7:45 (it's 20 minute drive to her school) and she rarely gets home before 6pm. When she does get home, she'll often have work to do. A lot of this is HoD workload, and the extra work she does like fixtures, extra curricular activities (like Gym & Dance displays) or DoE, but I don't remember the workload being any less when she was just a regular teacher.
Report times are a special time of year, as are times when the curriculum changes (requires new schemes of work) - both requiring massive extra workloads. Often, she gets sick in the first week of the holidays as the stress is let off.
All of that said, I don't think she would rather do anything else (except play hockey for England, but i don't think that will happen soon
) - dealing with all of the crap that gets heaped on her is nothing compared to the satisfaction of seeing a light switch on in a kids head because of what she has done. It's also an excellent job for a wife with kids - it's a very easy job to go back to part-time once you've dropped...
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