Relief Teaching London jobs

Thursday, November 26th 2009

By EDUVAC/The Education Weekly staff reporter

Relief Teaching jobs in London offers a career pathway towards improving your self confidence and growing your personal and professional development as a teacher.

Known as Supply Teaching in the United Kingdom, it is possible that in your overseas relief teaching job, you will not only be teaching native English speaking children, but helping immigrant children, who are eager to learn English at school.

As part of your London teaching experience, accepting relief teaching jobs, will bring the teacher a variety of teaching jobs and the experience of working in different schools.

Many of the London based teacher recruitment agencies will assist a teacher with New Zealand teacher qualifications to find a career path that fits with their current teaching skills and lifestyle choices.

The teacher recruitment agency can help with the job search to find a teaching job and both the teacher recruitment agency and the school, often facilitate some form of training course, or teacher training to develop your teaching career.

For more information about teaching in London and getting the opportunity to explore England away from the tourist spots, please contact one of the UK based teacher recruitment agencies advertising in the jobs section of the EDUVAC website.

Supply Teaching in the UK

On October 6th, 2009 Anonymous said:

I am an experienced New Zealand teacher currently working as a supply teacher in the UK. I attended a recruitment evening in New Zealand last year, and an orientation day in London once I arrived. Most of those attending were newly graduated teachers who had been actively recruited. They were being placed in inner city London schools. I left distinctly uneasy, wondering how much support these teachers would receive in often challenging schools. I have also been disheartened to learn that New Zealand, Australian, South African and Canadian qualifications are not recognised in the UK or EU. (Not mentioned at the recruitment evening.) You will be paid at unqualified rates unless working for an agency, who pay a flat rate regardless of the position. This is fine if you are planning to live in London, but much more difficult if you attend to settle elsewhere. The south east and west counties do not tend to use agencies, preferring not to pay agency fees. Instead, they rely on their own network of teachers or employ a part-time teacher to cover illness, and teacher release. It can therefore be much more difficult to find supply work. Margaret McLean

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