Hi everyone!

I'm an instrumental peri (LEA-employed) and love my job, but as an unqualified teacher the pay is awful (with little chance of improvement). Does anyone know of an instrumental teaching PGCE that would allow me to keep my job and study at the same time?

Thanks!

I thought all PGCE courses were aimed at classroom teachers rather than peris, and understood that only either a B.Ed, BA with QTS or a PGCE would give you qualified teacher status. CTABRSM or DipABRSM (Teaching) might be worth considering to give you a piece of paper proving you can teach.

The only one I know is the PGCE in string teaching at the RNCM. But even this is a classroom teaching course with specific string teaching components. I myself have been thinking about the dipABRSM teaching, but the CT is very expensive.

I have never heard of a specifically instrumental PGCE (doesn't mean they don't exist, though - I may simply never have heard of one)

Just because I have not heard of it, does not mean it does not exist. Perhaps there might be more info on the government website at www.dfes.gov.uk

Good Luck

Oh, and incedentally and probably irrelevantly, I think you are underpaid as well.

I do relish a challenge - these are all the ones I've found with fairly extensive googling:

This one is aimed partly at peris but appears to be full time:
Liverpool Hope

These are part-time but not specifically aimed at peris - however there's no reason why you should have to continue in classroom teaching once you've got the qualification!

Look at: Roehampton

The OU course:OU PGCE

There's also University of London Institute of Education - this one looks possibly the most useful with several different course options - see also Flexible PGCE at IOE

and Sussex School of Education - this one states that the Music PGCe can be part time.

and Canterbury Christ Church - this is largely distance learning.

It appears from my reading that during your NQT year you would have to complete some classroom teaching in order to complete the requirements and gain the full qualification. It's worth reading the thread at Peri NQT discussion for more info. on this.

Hope all this is of some use to you!

Good luck,

Jane

Well.....currently on PGCE which is supposedly part-time to enable us to keep jobs (mainly peri work) but currently on school placement so life is very difficult trying to fit both in! Roehampton does a part-time course.....
Am pretty sure there is no such thing as an instrumental PGCE - otherwise I would be doing that! But even if you get a class-room based PGCE, this will still go towards upping your salary if you dont decide to class-room teach!!