Selecting an age group to teach
The Primary schools and Secondary schools in England and Wales are split into four key stages, with each stage being one of the compulsory age brackets for children to attend school.
Key stage 1 – ages four to six year olds
Key stage 2 – ages six to eleven year olds
Key stage 3 – ages eleven to fourteen year olds
Key stage 4 – ages fourteen to sixteen year olds
Each teacher will go through the training for a minimum of two out of the four key stages, usually covering two key stages which are taught at the same level, either Primary of Secondary. When teaching at a Secondary level, there is a greater opportunity to expand the teaching topics, here are a few pointers to help guide you:
- The norm is to select two subjects from the national curriculum to specialize in, which your degree should be relevant to.
- When choosing to teach languages it is recommended to train in two differing languages, with popular first choices being European languages like Spanish, French or German, then the second being a community language like Hindi or Mandarin.
- When considering teaching sciences at a secondary level, there are specific enhancement courses available that combine with the initial teacher training (ITT) programme, to allow the potential teacher to further develop the techniques in that topic.
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