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How can you gain the relevant experience that will enhance your application for teacher training?

In at the deep end

Follow the blog of an OU student who fell into teaching by accident and is still there twenty years later.

The Accidental Teacher: My normal default would be to give anything suggested by Gove an immediate raspberry.  But I think there appears to be… Read on

Handy guide

Becoming a teacher booklet

Becoming a teacher (PDF, 3.75MB)

Information about how to become a teacher, showing you how OU courses (past and present) relate to the National Curriculum.

Useful links

Find out more about teaching in the education community section on the Prospects website

Where will you train?

Here are some websites relevant to where you might train.