My PGCE Experience | Teacher Training 

I definitely needed this video when I was doing my PGCE! A tough year but definitely worth it x

Thank you for this video it’s given me so much more insight for starting my PGCE in september 💕

I have just seen this video. I took some encouragement from the placement experience. Very helpful. Thank you so much.

I am exploring the option and this was so helpful.

This was very helpful. Thanks for sharing. I think teaching primary is definitely easier than secondary but sometimes I doubt my knowledge of alllll those different subjects I would have to keep up with in primary teaching, as opposed to specialising in my degree subject if I were to teach secondary.

This video was really helpful! I've been working as an English tutor for primary and high school students for nearly a year now, and I really love it. I've done a BA here in Australia as an international student ($$$!) and would really like to do a postgraduate teaching course, but as I'd be classed as a domestic student in the UK, I'm planning on moving. The system for becoming a teacher is super different over there, so it seems like I can't just do a Masters in Teaching like you can here (right?) From my research, it seems as though the PGCE is the most direct and practical route in the UK. Anyway, after that long-winded explanation, I just wanted to say thanks for this! It's so confusing trying to navigate a different higher education system, and even with all my researching, it's hard to get an indication of just what it'll be like to do a teacher training course! Really appreciate the honesty and clarity! :)

great journey and great learning

Excellent video

I started my PGCE at my nearest University available (Bishop Grosseteste University- Lincoln) in September last year. For more than 5 years, I was planning to make it into Primary Teaching, so I studied my Undergraduate Degree (also at Bishop Grosseteste University) and graduated in July last year (the ceremony itself was streamed live). Before I go into the nitty gritty, my interview was very similar. The lecture and seminar groups were very similar (I was in Group C, where Groups A and B were for the 3-7 Cohort and C, D and E were for the 5-11 Cohort), but we had PE once per term. 1st up was a few weeks at Uni and then my Self Arranged Placement which lasted a week at a local village school. This was followed by 2 further weeks at Uni before starting my 1st Assessed Placement (or Introductory Placement as it was called) at yet another village school (split by an Infants School and a Junior School- I was in the Infants School). I didn’t do too well, and to make matters worse, a significant event happened (which I’m not willing to disclose) almost immediately after I finished my teaching there. 3 weeks at Uni followed in January before starting my 2nd (of what was meant to be 3) Assessed Placements (Developing Placement). I started off fine, but in the February Half Term, I started to realise that teaching wasn’t for me (but with everybody saying to me I should soldier on, it was not helpful). By the end of February and into early March, I was all over the place mentally because I couldn’t eat, sleep or relax without feeling either stressed or worried about at least one of my planning, teaching and marking. When my UBM (University Based Mentor) showed up, I was asked to leave because I was getting close to feeling very poorly and I was really struggling to keep up (that was on the 4th of March 2020). I never contemplated arguing because of how badly the PGCE had ruined me; it pretty much confirmed that teaching is no longer my desired career path. A week later, I made the decision to drop out of the PGCE because I knew it wasn’t worth going through the mental pain again and letting the workload eat me alive again. I know these times are nowhere near normal, but the worst thing about it was that if I somehow held on for almost 3 more weeks, I would have gone on to pass the PGCE. Suppose I’ll never get this close ever again, but I don’t regret what I did at the time.

Great video! I’m hoping to start my PGCE next year - I hope you don’t mind me asking, what have you completed your masters in?

fantastic video. I've been a university lecturer for 25 years and am thinking about becoming a high school teacher. I wonder if there's some age limit to do PGCE.

Can you pls do a video on teachers standards tracker.

I am a career changer and hoping to start my PGCE this year. I am a single parent and trying to find out if I can do a full time pgce and live on maintenance loan and parental allowance.

I would like to know more if there is Scholarship program for PGCE.

Thank you for your video. I found it really useful. I have experience as a cover teaching assistant in schools, including primary. Given my experience, I am weighing up if I should apply to do a Primary PGCE through university, or through SCITT?.

How much did you pay for the course? txs

Thank you for sharing your experience. Please could you tell why you changed your mind about secondary deduction? I am willing to start a PGCE to become MFL (French) teacher at secondary school. Are there any drawbacks ? thank u.

very interesting video, thanks for sharing it. However, what's this on the bottom right of the screen? it's quite distracting

For an overseas teacher living outside UK & having neither a work permit nor a national insurance number, does that mean she is not entitled to apply for a teaching post in UK?. As to the QTS, can it be obtained online? Does it have an expiry date? Where may I get materials to study it? Can I submit a proof of enrolment and work till I receive the certificate? Is there any exceptions for teachers from QTS or any other alternatives? What’s the shortest time to get QTS?Can you teach while earning it? Is there a table that clarifies the diff. Bet. Pgce and qts esp. with regard to the requirement of each? Are there For a teacher living outside UK & having neither a work permit nor a national insurance number, does that mean she is not entitled to apply for a teaching post in UK?. As to the QTS, can it be obtained online? Does it have an expiry date? Where may I get materials to study it? Can I submit a proof of enrolment and work till I receive the certificate? Is there any exceptions for teachers from QTS or any other alternatives? What’s the shortest time to get QTS?Can you teach while earning it? for training on each test?

So you can't change your school placement?!

What are the possible routes for an Asian like us to achieve QTS or PGCE dream? Thank you.

Would you mind saying how you funded your course? Did you struggle with any of the costs, especially living in London?

do you think a non native can find it easy to teach in the UK schools?

St Mary's university a fantastic university? Quite the opposite if the league tables are to be believed.

How come you guys always look like teachers?

Thank u so much mam, can i get ur mail I'd, I have a query. Please respond.