CTSN SCITT is happy to organise school experience days for potential candidates throughout the academic year.
These would offer you the chance to observe teaching and pastoral work, and the opportunity to talk to teachers about day-to-day life in a school.
The teaching profession can seem a complex one so our school experience days offer you the chance to find out about the roles and responsibilities of a teacher and to help you answer many of the questions you may have about the profession.
Gaining some school experience will:
- strengthen your teacher training application
- give you observational experience prior to interview
- help you decide if teaching is right for you
If you can’t make a particular day, don’t worry as we are happy to arrange one-off visits., again email: [email protected] to make the request.
Please note: CTSN SCITT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, therefore, as you have not completed a DBS with us, you will need to be always escorted during a school experience day.
If isn’t possible to undertake school experience you could learn more about the teaching profession in other ways, such as:
- Contact someone you know who works in the profession and arrange to have a phone conversation/Zoom call with them.
- Read some of the DfE’s Get into Teaching articles:
- Get online and search for some virtual lessons to watch. Think about the techniques that are being used and what impact they have on the pupils. Look out for any challenging behaviours within these lessons and how they are managed.
- You may have had opportunities to home-school a sibling or relative, or worked with children in a sporting, tutoring or volunteering capacity. If so, spend some time thinking about what you learnt from these experiences.
- Read current educational news stories that interest you. You can keep track of some of the changes in the education sector by reading the news and visiting government and educational websites such as the Department of Education and TES.