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Career Planning for Teachers
Whether you are still applying for your first teaching poition or have been teaching for ten years it is never too early, or late to plan your teaching career. You have to decide if you are going to remain as a teacher, or whether you are going to move into administration early in your career. Teachers teach, well main-scale teachers do anyway. As soon as teachers gain posts of responsibility their teaching load is cut, and they get more money. The obvious conclusion is that the system values non-teaching tasks more highly than teaching ones. This is true whether you decide to go for responsibility within your subject area or to move into pastoral care. The pastoral route leads on to administrative posts more easily than the subject route. Teachers who opt for pastoral responsibility have a much reduced teaching load, less marking and more non teaching periods. Making yourself a better classroom teacher is NOT the way to promoted posts. You have to gain extra skills, take on unpaid roles and generally BE SEEN in the right places. If you are looking for advancement within your subject area, then join professional subject associations, not unions. Give extra lessons after school, write resources for others to use and take unpaid responsibility for particular areas. You have to be able to demonstrate that you have shown leadership and responsibility when applying for any promoted posts. If you are looking for advancement along the pastoral route then consider acting as a mentor for student teachers or for Newly Qualified Teachers. Take sports teams and become involved with the school pastoral system on a day to day basis. When applying for promoted posts outside your current school you should consider the costs involved if moving house is going to be necessary. Your children’s schooling will be disrupted, your partner may need to change jobs, too. Estate agents fees, solicitors’ fees, new floor coverings and curtains add up very quickly to a far higher sum than your extra earnings. You should ideally choose your house on the basis of its central nature to many job opportunities, with many local authorities within easy travelling distance. Ambitious teachers ignore financial disincentives to changing jobs and remain focussed on the long-term aim of becoming a school principal. Individuals who can spot trends early can create a niche for themselves in their current school. The secret is to spot the trend and become a source of information in that area, so that you are the natural candidate for any internal appointment in that niche. An obvious example of this trend was the development of Information Technology. Those who decided to become experts in this area have often been given posts of resonsibility, within their current school. Another was the paperwork processing that is an unavoidable, but increasing part of a teacher’s life. Some individuals realised that information gathering was not going to be enough, that it would need processing too. These teachers learned a little bit about form design and data input and created niches for themselves that have led to Assistant Principal positions in some cases.
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