If your dream is to go abroad and teach English, but you do not have any teaching qualifications, a TEFL is a quick and easy way to get the necessary certification. There are a couple quick options available.

TEFL Options

1. Find a four-week TEFL intensive course either in the country location you wish to teach in, or in your country of origin.
2. Take a part-time, 11-week TEFL course.

You can apply for and interview for jobs either before, during or after completion of your TEFL. There are several ways to accomplish your TEFL certification and make your dream a reality, it just takes a bit of research and planning to figure out what will be best for you. You should decide on the country/countries that you would wish to teach in and then start looking for job opportunities and registering for a good quality, trusted TEFL course either in person or online.

With social media and job board websites that are relatively cheap to access, why do so many businesses still spend thousands of pounds on recruitment? For many jobs, it makes perfect sense for the business to recruit on their own, using many of the tolls available to them, such as LinkedIn advertising or posts onto job boards, not to mention the free avenue; word of mouth. There is now such thing as cheap recruitment, thankfully, and more businesses should take advantage of this. Of course, there are cases whereby specialist help is required. This could be a particular industry or niche where you’re looking for a very specific and talented individual, and unfortunately the job boards aren’t going to cut it, especially when we start considering ‘head hunting’.

What is head hunting?

It’s a technique that’s used when there is a very defined background from which the recruiting company is looking for. It’s ideal for when someone wants a person ‘who is from a competitor’ or where that particular expertise is employed in similar, but not competitive organisations. In the case of headhunting, many of the cheap recruitment options simply won’t cut the mustard.

So, putting these recruitment situations aside what are some of the top cheap recruitment options for small businesses? One kind of recruitment that seems to be growing in popularity, especially for small firms, is flat rate recruitment. This kind of recruitment is where you pay an individual or agency a flat rate and they then dish your advert out across social media and job boards. This is a wise option for those who simply want to get their advert out there for hundreds of people to see, and if it’s a job where you know you’ll have many qualified applicants who are interested, it’s a great way to spread the word and receive plenty of CVs to go through. Some of the flat rate agencies will even filter the CVs for you and order them fro most qualified to least, so you can have almost all of the work complete by paying just a few hundred pound. This was unthinkable just a few years ago.

Of course, with LinkedIn as a business orientated social media platform, you can use the advertising feature yourself, spending just a few hundred pounds to spread the word about the opportunity available in your workplace. This can be just as cheap as flat rate recruiting, however, and to ensure your ads are optimised you’ll need to learn a little about LinkedIn ads, so perhaps choosing a social media agency or flat rate recruiter to help is a wise option.

There are of course still the tried and tested traditional methods, such as advertising your job in the local paper and nowadays these are published in print and online, so the reach is still relatively good. Adverts in local papers are often viewed with more trust than a listing on a job board, and you can choose to have candidates email their CV and cover letter over, or call you to learn more.

There are some things that one must do to become a great teacher as we are going to discuss in this blog post. To be most loved among the little children you require something beyond learning. You should be a very friendly but then a strict individual to be able to teach in a school. There are numerous approaches to be a great teacher yet the mystery lies in incredible relational abilities. It’s exceptionally fundamental that a teacher talks well. Listening is likewise another fundamental part of becoming a great teacher.

Tolerance is another key necessity that makes one a great teacher. You ought to understand that your understudy isn’t at standard with your insight and that it will require them much time to comprehend what you can comprehend in just a second. Likewise, every understudy is a quick learner. Hence you need to have tolerance with every one of them and ensure to be their top pick.

According to the some of the latest statistics, the average teaching salary in the UK is £23,000, however, when you’ve worked in the industry for over 10 years as a teacher, this reaches around £28,700. With the average salary in the UK being £27,600, it’s a wonder why so many people are drawn to teaching. If you think long and hard about the training you need to go through to become a teacher as well as the hard work you have to put in each and every day, then it’s difficult to see what the hype is all about. This is why it’s so true that to become a teacher, you have to have a passion for teaching and a love of pupils. It’s the same for nurses in the UK. They’re paid very badly compared to non-specialist roles in the UK, but to be successful as a nurse or a teacher it can’t be about the money, it’ has to be about your passion, love and level of care for the individual you’re helping.

Career in education is a great challenge in itself yet rewarding. A teacher is one of the most important aspects in sculpting a whole generation. Therefore, it is important a person opting for teaching career should be calm, patient and should have a thorough knowledge of the subject and will of learning new things.

As we go from school to college and for higher education, every teacher in these education institutes holds a different degree and license to teach a particular subject to a particular grade. Teaching career goes beyond the teacher communicating with a mass of students in the class. we have outlined a few teaching career options available for all levels of teachers. (more…)

There are certain traits that people need if they want to have a successful career as a teacher, and if you don’t possess these qualities, you may want to consider another career.

Patience

Without patience, you may struggle to adapt in a classroom. There will be such a diverse range of students and you have to have the patience to really get the best out of each individual.

Attention to detail

You have to know your course material inside and out, but you also have to have a keen eye to see which pupils are doing well and which pupils need more of your time to see better results. It’s all about being on the ball at all times, which isn’t easy.

Confidence

If you lack confidence in the classroom the students will sense it, and that can be a major problem. They need to respect you, and the only way they will is if you really own that classroom and ensure they know who is in charge.

I’m sure many of you have heard the phrase “enjoy your school years and don’t wish them away” or the famous “school is as good as life gets”. These should both be taken with a pinch of salt really but after a few years of work when your time at school seems like a distant past, you’ll likely only hold a few important memories. Trying to remember the work you did and the way the building was laid out is hard enough, let along remembering teachers names, fellow pupil’s faces and the food that was served in the canteen.

There will likely be some important lessons that have stayed with you though and you may wonder why. As an example, I’ll never forget the day I learned about irony in English. Mainly because we spent the lesson watching episodes of Top Gear and writing a note each time something ironic happened. Let’s just say I barely put my pen down. That was the day I learned something I knew I would use, even if it wasn’t going to be the most important lesson to learn.

Naturally, you may look back and find that you don’t remember an awful lot about the lessons you didn’t enjoy. You probably remember the teacher’s name because you feared them so much, but the content of the class may be a little harder to remember. It’s always good to look back on your school years but as adults we will naturally remember our fond memories rather than our failures or misfortunes. That’s exactly how it should be because it prepares you for the future and reminds you to aim high. If you’re a student, don’t worry too much, just make sure you give each class your all and you’ll naturally pay more attention to the subjects that interest you.

Being a TA (teaching assistant) is a common starting point for those who aspire to become teachers. Spending time with teachers day in day out, supporting them with their daily tasks is all vital experience that you can take with you into teaching. That said, after several years working as a TA, there is no direct route through to becoming a teacher. You will need to combine teaching studies with your work as a TA so there will be the element of ‘going back to school’. Though many people jump straight into teaching out of university, others work as teaching assistants, but who’s more qualified? Arguable both will be yet those with real hands on experience have the upper hand in our books and by saying you’ve already worked in a school for several years, you’ll be in a good opportunity to get your first job as a teacher.

Even if you are embarking on a primary school teacher training degree or early years degree course straight after A levels, it is likely that phonics is something that will be completely new to you. Since 2012, the phonics screener test has been administered in schools to year 1 children towards the end of the academic year. Most schools teach phonics to all Foundation Stage and Key stage 1 children in short 20-25  minute sessions, 4 or 5 times a week.

According to the Department for Education, phonics is a way to teach children to read quickly and skilfully. Reception aged children are taught the initial sounds of the letters of the alphabet, though not in alphabetical order and they will gradually learn to read and write simple consonant-vowel-consonant words (CVCs), by learning how to blend these sounds together. They then move on to look at other letter combinations, like ch, or, ar – these 2 letter single sounds are known as digraphs. Trigraphs are sounds which contain 3 letters – igh, air and ure, for instance.

Once the basics are mastered, then phonics lessons move onto the finer intricacies of the English language.

However, as a trainee teacher who was never taught phonics at school, this can all seem a little like learning a foreign language.  However, it doesn’t take long to pick up the basics and find ways to teach this to young children.  There are lots of phonics resources and games available to either buy or to download from popular teaching websites to help new trainee teachers .

You may feel concerned to learn that your child might be taught by someone without a recognised teaching qualification. There are approximately 17,000 unqualified teachers working in schools in England which is just under 4% of the total teaching workforce.

The government believes that it is essential that schools have the freedom to employ whom they want to teach in their schools and it is certainly true that some unqualified teachers offer outstanding teaching and learning opportunities to the children in their classes. In theory, you must have a teaching qualification to teach in a local authority school whereas this is not always the case in an academy or a free school. However, in 2013 there were more than 9,000 teachers working in local authority schools in England. Many schools may often have unqualified teachers working in specialist subjects like music, sport, art or minority foreign languages.

Parents, however, may understandably feel concerned if they think unqualified teachers are employed solely as a cost-cutting exercise. Salaries for qualified teachers start at around £22,000 p/a whilst an unqualified teacher may earn as little as £16,000 a year.