Teachers or Training Teachers - What university did you go to?

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and also, what degree course(s) did you take?

I know all about different courses for teaching, etc. I'd just like to know about your views and experiences of different ones.

Thanks for your help. :)

Answer 1

I did my 4-year course at the university of malta and it was a waste of time basically... (sorry to say) i didn't learn anything on how to go about disruptive students, students from different backgrounds etc... nor anything about how to teach my subject in great depth... i was very disappointed... but that was the only road...

the course was very very theoretical...

Answer 2

the university of life for me for 36  years and learned far too much lol

Answer 3

BA at Christchurch College Canterbury, UK.

TEFL/TESOL at Fielden Centre, Manchester, UK.

MA at Opole University, Poland.

Depends what kind of teacher you want to be. There was a good PGCE course at Christchurch, but at that time I wasn't planning to be a teacher so my only training is TEFL, so I've also had to do extra State qualifications to allow me to teach in State schools in Poland.

Answer 4

SUNY College At New Paltz.  I got my BA and MS there.  I took education courses that were largely useless wastes of time.  Only student teaching was of any use to me.  I have been a teacher now for 20 years (a very successful one) and my best education course has been actual teaching in the classroom.

Answer 5

I went to University of Maryland College Park, Majored in Print Journalism with a minor in Spanish. I decided to become a teacher a few years after that, so I joined an alternative certification program in which took about three months. Then, I became a teacher. I really think majoring in something other than education is good because if teaching doesn't suite you, then you have another degree to fall back on.  

Answer 6

I took my first degree at Liverpool, then my PGCE and Doctorate at Plymouth. I didn't really 'choose' Plymouth, I teach on some of their courses, so got the training free, so long as I did it with them.

To be frank, I found the post-graduate courses very easy compared with my Bachelors!

Answer 7

I did both my degree and my PGCE at Homerton College, Cambridge. I thought both the courses were excellent - the BA (in English and Education studies) was really varied and allowed a lot of room for pursuing your own interests. The PGCE was incredibly rigorous and thorough, but has stood me in excellent stead with my teaching career.

The only downside I would say is that I picked up on slight snobbishness from some of the students during my BA studies, but generally those people are quite easy to avoid! I didn't get this at all with the PGCE, everyone was really nice!

Answer 8

I did both my Degree and PGCE at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, which is fab.

www.aber.ac.uk for more details

Answer 9

My degree was at Teesside in English, then PGCE at Swansea. The course was highly rated at the time apparently. I'm involved with training students from Swansea now, as the senior mentor for my school.