Become a Teacher

An interesting and rewarding career

Teaching must be one of the most interesting and rewarding careers. If you love your subject, want to inspire and support young people and serve a local community, enjoy an intellectual challenge and like an immensely varied working day, teaching might be the career for you.  

There are numerous routes into teaching.  You could start with a degree in education, or follow-up your subject degree with a postgraduate PGCE.  You can train through a school-university partnership programme such as the world-leading University of Cambridge courses, or through a school direct route such as that offered by the excellent Cambridge Teaching School Network.  You can go into teaching as a first career or as a career change. You can complete training over one year, full time, or take two years over a part-time route.  If you are currently working in a school and wish to transition into a teaching role, there are also additional routes designed specifically for this. 

To find out more, please follow the following links:  

Department for Education guidance: https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/ 

Anglian Gateway (our Trust) guidance: https://www.angliangatewaytsa.org/itt/ 

Cambridge Teaching Schools Network: https://www.camteach.org.uk/ 

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge: https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/courses/pgce/ 

If you would like to discuss how to get into teaching, please contact James Woodcock, Assistant Principal, at jwoodcock@sawstonvc.org.