When I grow up I wanna be...

[matilda36]

...a teacher?

*headdesk*

I discovered this morning that I have time until June to apply for Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) for Secondary Schools for September entry.
The incentives are pretty good, I know I am enjoying teaching more and more and it would give me the chance to go back to a civilised country. All I need are good references.

And yet I am scared witless.

Please tell me in details why this is a bad idea?

Comments

[mickey-sixx.livejournal.com]

I can't, because it's not. Get the references, and put in an application. You never know until you try. *hugs*

[verito295.livejournal.com]

I can't say much about the teacher thing apart from I hope you plan on staying well away from Italy if you do, I heard kids are getting even worst than they used to be when I was in school (which is saying a lot). But if it takes you back to civilised countries.. send me a ticket will you? ;)

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

Well you'd have to deal with British teenagers and they don't let you kill them - which is a shame. Execute a couple up front and I'm sure they'd all be wonderfully well behaved in future :D

*hugs* The incentive package is good. My aunt is a headmistress and insists on trying tot alk me into teaching. She cannot grasp the concept that I would rather spork my own eyes out than deal with teenagers and that I'd need intravenous coffee to deal with younger ones. If I had got my MA and was working on my phd like I planned it would be different. University age people I can cope with :)

It sounds like a good idea to me because you're be coming over here like you want. Or you could go to Ireland - they're like us only without Blair and with even more beautiful countryside. And Guinness

[ebi-chan.livejournal.com]

well it is a bad idea if you wouldn't do it hon. You obviously like teaching very much. You are good at it also.

*huggles* why not go for it and if you do not like it at all then stop. Nothing to loose and so much to gain.
*cuddles*

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

If you enjoy it already I guess maybe you're cut out for it.
I taught for a year and a half in Walsall and it nearly gave me a nervous breakdown.
The kids were foul, and the other teachers, on the whole, were equally obnoxious.
But I think I made the mistake of taking the first job I was offered, in a school where I was clearly not going to fit in.
I used to like teenagers before I became a teacher ... teaching made me hate some of them.