Changing career - Engineer to teacher

gutteruu

I want to become a maths teacher. I have a level 7 degree in civil engineering from an IT and qualified in 2005. Been working in environmental engineering/service eng roll since. I would love to become a maths/physics and/or construction studies teacher.

How would I go about it. I have young family and would preferably like to do it part time or online. I presume I would need some sort of bridging course first?

Thanks

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TheDriver

Check teaching council as i think you may not be qualified to teach anything, maybe applied maths. Level 7 may not have enough modules of any particular subjects.
the bridging courses would be fairly big probably plus you need education qualification. This is going to cost a fair amount.

gutteruu

Figured I wouldn't be qualified for anything without further courses. From the teaching councils site and looking at AIT, it shows the course "Bachelor of Technology in Integrated Manufacturing Systems" eligable to teach applied maths. I'm wondering if I were to do just the maths part of that course and pass exams would this qualify me? (I know this question is for teaching council and/or AIT but said I would ask anyway)

Assuming it did, what are the steps after that? A 1 year full time H. Dip before being allowed to teach?

Sorry for basic questions but I was just thinking about it over weekend and was told there would be a good chance of employment if I qualified.

Moody_mona

It's no longer called a h dip, it's a professional masters in education, PME, and it's two years full time.

UL offer a free course to upgrade your Maths credits. This is a very tough course, done after your qualification, but there's no guarantee that it would be running when you're qualified.

You can contact the Teaching Council and pay for them to assess your degree to determine what you would need to do to be qualified in Maths or Physics.

gutteruu

2 years full time and 10k fees kind of puts it out of reach unfortunately. Ah well, back to reality.

Thanks for help anyway.

spurious

The chances of full-time employment would be pretty bad too, unfortunately.

Millem

Moody_mona wrote: »

It's no longer called a h dip, it's a professional masters in education, PME, and it's two years full time.

UL offer a free course to upgrade your Maths credits. This is a very tough course, done after your qualification, but there's no guarantee that it would be running when you're qualified.

You can contact the Teaching Council and pay for them to assess your degree to determine what you would need to do to be qualified in Maths or Physics.

I thought the UL course was for teachers (who aren't qualified for maths) in a school teaching maths? And you need to get your principal to sign your application? Therefore would the OP not need a job first? Which I assume would be very slim just with applied maths?

evolving_doors

Millem wrote: »

I thought the UL course was for teachers (who aren't qualified for maths) in a school teaching maths? And you need to get your principal to sign your application? Therefore would the OP not need a job first? Which I assume would be very slim just with applied maths?

I think the aim was for all maths teachers to be 'qualified' by 2018.. so I'd presume the course would run untill then. Although they keep saying that this year is the last year it will be free. Ya you need a signature from a principal and be teaching in a school (and have maths on your timetable next year)..

Millem

Armelodie wrote: »

I think the aim was for all maths teachers to be 'qualified' by 2018.. so I'd presume the course would run untill then. Although they keep saying that this year is the last year it will be free. Ya you need a signature from a principal and be teaching in a school (and have maths on your timetable next year)..

I thought this was the case. It is really an option for OP so unless they get a job with only applied maths? I think the open university might be a better option.

gutteruu

Millem wrote: »

I thought this was the case. It is really an option for OP so unless they get a job with only applied maths? I think the open university might be a better option.

The open university PME, is this the same course or the UK equivalent?

Millem

gutteruu wrote: »

The open university PME, is this the same course or the UK equivalent?

Sorry I was referring to open university in relation to maths modules not PME