Being 'too good' for teaching primary

Plus, your personality is far more important in teaching. My mum has had students in her class who have been AAA A-level students but are useless teachers because of their personality. Those interviews are tough!

Plus, your personality is far more important in teaching. My mum has had students in her class who have been AAA A-level students but are useless teachers because of their personality. Those interviews are tough!

I've just sent off my competed GTTR application

People need to wise up. Where I live teaching is still valued, though you do get funny looks when you say you get AAB in your A-levels and yet you're doing primary teaching. Maybe this is because of the limited places on courses in Northern Ireland (i think there's about 300/400 first year places in the entire country) and the fact that the grades they ask for are very high (English and primary in my college was AAB).

All children deserve the best start in life, and so the people who are allowed to teach them should be given the respect that duty entails. I mean would you trust your lawyer with your five year old five days a week for a year? Probably not...but you would trust a teacher to give a fundamental grounding in life and society as well as an education.

Not really at all.

I just wanted to let off some steam really, because I'm getting really fed up with people telling me that I am, well, too good to become a Primary teacher.
Now, all the interviews I had for a BA with QTS in Primary Education I had this year were successful, but I decided to go for another course in the end.
I did Primary Ed. in Germany, and as English was my major subject, I pretty much did the same stuff as secondary teaching students. I did well, and my professor in American Studies said: Why do you want to waste your time becoming a teacher?

WHAT?

I don't get it, it upsets me. People think with good grades you should do great things. Well, teaching should certainly be among them, NO?

Exactly, teaching is one of the most important jobs in my opinion, without teachers, well, we would be nowhere. I say you should become a teacher! good luck

Have a look at the TES staffroom.
Reading the miserable posts from unhappy and unfulfilled teachers should cure you of your little problem.


http://www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/list_threads.aspx?path=%2fbehaviour%2f

I just wanted to let off some steam really, because I'm getting really fed up with people telling me that I am, well, too good to become a Primary teacher.
Now, all the interviews I had for a BA with QTS in Primary Education I had this year were successful, but I decided to go for another course in the end.
I did Primary Ed. in Germany, and as English was my major subject, I pretty much did the same stuff as secondary teaching students. I did well, and my professor in American Studies said: Why do you want to waste your time becoming a teacher?

WHAT?

I don't get it, it upsets me. People think with good grades you should do great things. Well, teaching should certainly be among them, NO?

[joke] Did you ask the professor why s/he wastes his time on American studies? [/joke]

My view on teachers used to be --Those who can , do. Those who cant teach-- I then met some amazing teachers who obviously had a passion for the subjects they were teaching. After a decade in 3 different countries educational systems my belief is that teaching should not only be on academic qualifications, the enthusiasm and passion for the subject and how authoritative they can be if needed, if they are actually interesting to listen to etc. should all be taken into account. Also i think there should be spot checks to make sure the teachers teaching are actually doing their job properly- ie are not making everyone fall to sleep- surely kids have a right to an interesting and stimulating education as well as recieving the required infromation