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Primary & Nursery Education Teaching Professionals

Description

Primary (and middle school deemed primary) and nursery education teaching professionals plan, organise and provide instruction to children at all levels up to the age of entry into secondary education.

Tasks

Prepares and delivers courses and lessons in accordance with curriculum requirements and teaches a range of subjects

Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises and examinations to record and evaluate students’ progress

Prepares students for external examinations and administers and invigilates these examinations

Maintains records of students’ progress and development

Supervises students and maintains classroom discipline

Teaches simple songs and rhymes, reads stories and organises various activities to promote language, social and physical development

Undertakes pastoral duties

Supervises teaching assistants and trainees

Discusses progress with student, parents and/or other education professionals

Assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties.

Educational Requirements

Entry is with a first degree that provides QTS (qualified teacher status) or, in Scotland, TQ (teaching qualification); or other relevant degree followed by further postgraduate training (most commonly PGCE – Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education, or, in Scotland, PGDE – Professional Graduate Diploma in Education). Further and higher professional qualifications are required for some teaching posts.