Early years teacher pathway

[McCauleyclan]

Hi

 

I have been wanting to be a teacher for a while now but due to one thing or another not yet been able to do it. I'm ready to start this year though. I have 2 children under 18 months and we really want to move to oz eventually. I was initially going to be a secondary teacher of English but have decided to go down the early years teaching route instead. As my children are still so little it would be easier for me to start at our local college doing the level 3 in childcare then i was planning to top this up in 2 years time at uni and then go on to the pgce. That will cover the criteria for entry to oz i believe but is taking this pathway ok does anyone know or do i need to do the 3 year degree fully in uni and then the pgce afterwards.

 

Out of interest i have been studying an english degree with OU and have one year left. I will not have honours with this as it is only a 300 point degree and as i have transferred credit over i will be pushed now to get an honours degree over a third even if i did an extra course on top of my last. If I did complete it to 300 points and did a pgce in english secondary after does anyone know if this would be recognised in oz for migration purposes? If it did it would certainly get us there alot faster as we are currently looking at at least 6 years before we would be able to move with the EYT route but i do understand english teaching jobs there are hard to come by these days also.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. :yes:

 

Emma

[Sammy1]

Ether way, you will need four years of university education. Which route is really up to you as teaching secondary and early childhood is vastly different.

 

To teach anywhere in Australia you must have four years of tertiary education, whether this is a three year degree and one year PGCE or a four year degree (which includes initial teacher training).

[McCauleyclan]

thanks so doing a diploma in college first then topping up at uni won't count then?