Graduate Teaching Assistant (Future Teachers Programme)
Our Future Teacher Programme lets you fully explore a career in education before committing to Initial Teacher Training. We provide paid placements in schools and start a journey that can ultimately lead to qualified teacher status and a career that changes lives.
Area: Bedfordshire
Salary: £83.85-90 per day (varied depending on experience and qualifications)
Hours of work: 37.5 hours a week (or ad-hoc flexible)
Start date: January 2025 onwards
At Teaching Personnel, we are committed to fostering the next generation of exceptional educators. We believe in providing a supportive and dynamic environment where passionate Graduates considering a career in Teaching can develop their teaching skills and contribute to a vibrant school community. We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking Graduate Future Teachers who are open to fulfilling support roles in Secondary schools as Teaching Assistants or Cover Supervisors, with the end goal of being supported into Inegrated Teacher Training.
This is a perfect opportunity for a recent graduate or someone who is potentially looking to start a career in education. This position will allow you to gain experience managing a variety of lessons and building rapport with students. This is a chance to develop teaching and strong classroom management skills in an environment where planning will always be in place. The ideal Graduate will specalise in any of the syllabus including STEM, Humanities, Sports, Arts or Creative based subjects.
Teaching Personnel are supporting a regional Trust with multiple Secondary Schools across Bedfordshire, to be enrolled onto the Future Teachers programme and provide Graduates the opportunity to be placed as a Cover Supervisor or Teaching Assistant in their schools, ready to shape the future of their schools.
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Responsibilities:
Working across a range of different year groups and departments
Managing the behaviour of students
Supervising pre-planned, pre-set work from teachers
Gaining invaluable classroom-based experience to set you up ready for ITT from September or in the future
Would you be suitable?
Recent and relevant experience working with young people, this can be in an educational, coaching or care setting
Degree educated
Be passionate and committed to working with children in education
Have strong behaviour management skills
Be an effective communicator and have strong interpersonal skills
Be punctual, flexible and reliable
We look forward to your application!
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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