Job description
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Future Teachers Programme
Teaching Personnel are currently recruiting graduates ahead of September 2019 who are considering a career in primary or secondary teaching in the future.
Our future teachers programme allows you not only to secure employment as a teaching assistant following the completion of your degree, but it is a clear and concise pathway onto a school based initial teacher training programme. This programme allows you to gain the necessary experience required to be confident and successful when you do decide to begin your teacher training.
This programme involves working as a teaching assistant on a 12 month basis (from September 2019) within one of our client schools located in the Cranbrook area prior to beginning your teacher training programme in September 2020.
** Applicants must hold a degree or be in the process of completing your degree (final year) and be looking to pursue a career in education ***
- Full time Graduate teaching assistant role for 12 months - Followed by introduction to a SCITT programme at a local training school
- Over 20 places available across the whole of West Kent/East Sussex with different school alliances
- Opportunities for all graduates pursuing a career in primary and secondary education
- Paid competitively for the first 12 months whilst gaining essential and invaluable experience as a teaching assistant
Throughout the Future Teachers placement you will initially work within a teaching assistant capacity whereby you will work on-site at one of our client schools and support pupils in a range of areas and subjects (predominately your subject specialism). This will be a full time role with an allocated school in the Cranbrook area where you will undertake a variety of tasks and activities that will give you a good understanding as to the role of a teacher. A significant proportion of these tasks and activities will also benefit your subject knowledge as you will focus on raising pupil attainment, supporting special needs pupils, covering classes, assisting with planning, preparing lessons and developing schemes of work.
Responsibilities within the graduate teaching assistant role include providing;
- Cover Supervisor work where you will experience covering lessons and classroom management
- one to one specific tuition/interventions where you will utilise your subject knowledge to raise pupil attainment
- SEN support where you can work alongside pupils with Special Educational Needs
- In-class support in your specialist subject to enhance pupils learning experience
- Assistance with planning and preparation of lessons alongside teachers to upskill you in this area
For immediate consideration all graduates or those coming to the end of their degrees are encouraged to send an updated CV to Ashley Arnold and a member of the team of Teaching Personnel will be in touch with more information.