Chelsea+Ellis

Primary School Teacher
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About Primary School Teaching. Summary Task and Duties Skills and Knowledge
 * Primary School Teachers will teach children between the ages of 5 and 13 either at Primary Schools or Intermediates, they will need to be able to be comfortable around students and parents also be able to work well withother staff members. Teachers need to know how to work with children with learning disabilities and be able to target how to work around it. Primary Teachers will incounter behavioural issues and will need to know how to cope with them and work around it also help to keep the children inline. Teachers work with children also adults parents and caregivers and they need to know how to comunicate well with others.
 * to be a primary school tacher you must be able to plan and prepare lessons and activities for the year, the acticities have to be educational and good for the curriculum level that the children are at
 * you need to know basic English, maths, science, technology, arts and social studies and be able to teach these subjects.
 * keeping up with changes in the curriculum and assessments is vital.
 * being a teacher you must help each individual and their needs.
 * you must be able to control and help childrens behaviour.
 * being able to comfortably speak with parents about a childs behaviour.
 * potentially you could be head of a subject such as english.
 * primary school teachers need to be able to want to help out with extra activities outside of school
 * be able to do a lunch duty and interact with the children.
 * you need the skills and patients to teach different methods
 * follow the nz curriculum
 * you need to know how to plan lessons and evalutue progress of ech individulal student
 * being able to cope and deal with a childs learning disability and work around it to help them as much as possible.
 * you need to know techniques of how to help a childs behaviour improve methods such as rewards and bounderies
 * school rules and bounderies need to be inforced.

Secondary education – no. of years, qualifications, useful subjects Useful experience Working conditions Hours and contact with people Pay and progression
 * Education providers require the applicants to have a tertiary entrance qualification.
 * Working with children and teenagers
 * Babysitting
 * Early Childhood Teaching
 * understanding how children work
 * primary teachers will work with children from about 8am until 3.30pm. They also work after hours doing administrative work and going to meetings.
 * work in classrooms or small spaces can be very noisy as it can also be outside.
 * teachers can also be asked to go on firl trips so they can get out of the classroom
 * primary school teachers will work from 8am until 3pm but they will also have other duties and tasks that need to be done outside of school hours.
 * With a three-year Diploma of Teaching qualification, you start on $34,847 a year. Pay rises each year for seven years to $55,621 – the maximum on this pay scale.
 * With a three-year Bachelor of Education (Teaching) or equivalent, or an Advanced Diploma of Teaching, you start on $45,568. You can reach a maximum of $67,413 after seven years.
 * With four years' tertiary study, you start on $46,908 a year, and can reach a maximum of $70,877 after seven years.

Related job (s)
 * Early Childhood Teacher
 * School Principal
 * Secondary School Teacher
 * Special education Teacher

My conclusions about this job I think i would really enjoy this job because i enjoy helping people younger than me and i enjoy being around them. I am glad this job came up because it is definitly something i would want to do when im older. This job matches my qualities and values at the moment because i enjoy leadership and working with others. Over time i could end up being a principal of my own school and maybe lead on to becoming a secondary school teacher.