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LukeM · 14-03-2008, 08:56 PM

I know, as well some people do tell me - that I think ahead VERY far indeed.

My current situation is being a year 11 student in the UK, attending a relatively big comprehensive secondary school about 20 mins from where I live here, travelling there and back by bus every day and currently struggling my way through my last ever bit of GCSE coursework and sitting my first real, final GCSE exams TWO MONTHS TODAY.

My parents are keen to emigrate at the moment, as am I, but will not make a decision until the beginning of 2009 when we have visited Brisbane and the surrounding area, Sydney and Adelaide/surrounding area from 17th December to 7th January.

By this time I will have started A Levels (September 2008).

Now this is the (somewhat important) and interesting part...

I love ICT.

For the past few years, all I have wanted to do is to teach ICT at secondary (high) school level as a career.

So I wondered if anyone could give me some info on what exactly you need to do in order to do this, all I really understand is you are required to have a university degree in the subject you wish to teach (like in the UK) and to have completed a teaching course either alongside it or a postgrad course in teaching.

But to teach ICT at high school level (in either South Australia or Queensland), what will I need?

Many thanks,
Luke.

KP Nuts · 14-03-2008, 09:00 PM

Sorry Luke, i've no idea, but good luck to you and i hope someone can tell you on here..

KP Nuts

Quoll · 15-03-2008, 12:53 AM

Good on you for planning ahead, so many young people do not!!!

In very general terms, in order to teach in Aus you need to have a 4 year degree - so you could do your first degree and then do a postgrad teaching qualification. I think you would probably get more joy from that than just doing a plain old teaching degree. That way, too, you can hedge your bets so if teaching turns out not to be what you think it is, then you have your first degree and its qualification to fall back on.

You may want to check out, too, what the demand is for ICT specialist HS teachers - I am not sure that there is a huge demand for it but I could well be wrong there. I tend to think of ICT as being more integrated into the curriculum rather than as a standalone area of instruction. Alternatively it could be that there is a high demand for teachers because people who are interested in ICT can generally demand a higher salary out in private enterprise than they can in education so would tend to take that option.

Perhaps you could have a chat with teachers at your school who seem to be doing what you aspire to do and ask for their advice. I would imagine that their route into the education system would be pretty similar to an Aussie route - the 4 year thing is common in UK with people doing a degree then a PGCE.

leanneandmark · 15-03-2008, 01:05 AM

Luke.... good for you!!
I would second what Quoll has said, do your degree first then do pgce.

I dont think its the same in oz, but in uk you can teach in private schools without the pgce, you just need your degree!

pabloke99 · 15-03-2008, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by LukeM

I know, as well some people do tell me - that I think ahead VERY far indeed.

My current situation is being a year 11 student in the UK, attending a relatively big comprehensive secondary school about 20 mins from where I live here, travelling there and back by bus every day and currently struggling my way through my last ever bit of GCSE coursework and sitting my first real, final GCSE exams TWO MONTHS TODAY.

My parents are keen to emigrate at the moment, as am I, but will not make a decision until the beginning of 2009 when we have visited Brisbane and the surrounding area, Sydney and Adelaide/surrounding area from 17th December to 7th January.

By this time I will have started A Levels (September 2008).

Now this is the (somewhat important) and interesting part...

I love ICT.

For the past few years, all I have wanted to do is to teach ICT at secondary (high) school level as a career.

So I wondered if anyone could give me some info on what exactly you need to do in order to do this, all I really understand is you are required to have a university degree in the subject you wish to teach (like in the UK) and to have completed a teaching course either alongside it or a postgrad course in teaching.

But to teach ICT at high school level (in either South Australia or Queensland), what will I need?

Many thanks,
Luke.

Luke,
As far as I understand, your GCSEs are worth bugger-all in Oz. You will come to Oz and start Yr 11 studies towards your HSCs (or other state equivalents). You will then have the option, dependent upon your results in yr 12 exams, to attend uni or TAFE. Following that you will then need to acquire teaching quals, by which time you will have realised that there is more money to be had elsewhere.

Good Luck Luke, it's good to see someone on this site who can spell.

LukeM · 15-03-2008, 07:49 PM

Ahh, thank you!

You're not the first to say that, wow that's 2 people in less than 24 hours... Not bad going!

I'm not in it for the money, though. I know I always want something to do with ICT or music (but there's more demand for ICT and jobs as well!) so that just about wins it!

Job satisfaction over money. But if it doesn't work out... well, y'know?

Evs!

Luke.