Half a day PPA a week to do everything you need to do is insane! You start earlier in the morning in Dubai but your students generally leave by 1.30 so you have the extra hours after school to do your admin. This makes a huge difference to work life balance

It is interesting to hear what teaching is like in the UK! Thanks for sharing 🤗

Sub from the UK here. Today I left at 9:20 am because of the level of verbal harassment from the kids, along with them throwing objects at me. Mind you, I have ten years of experience in education and fifteen years in mental health care. I need money and I am in debt. But today the abuse just hit harder. I was in a mainstream school. It's years that I don't work anymore in mental health and PRUs. Nobody should put with this. And boards are busy trying to get as much as possible out funds while investing as little as possible in staff and resources.

You’re bang on about the parents. I’m secondary pastoral and most days I feel like I parent the parents! They ignore that as a parent they are the child’s primary teacher - not me - I don’t even have children of my own! However, never dare state the obvious, be discrete in your advice, otherwise it will only lead to offence and complaints. You cannot win. It’s an unforgiving career in the UK. Don’t get me started on politics too!

Most of the teachers I know regret getting into it. It can be an extremely stressful and nasty job, especially as you get higher up the ladder. My wife is a Head of school teacher, she's been doing it for 20 years. She has just handed in her notice, which I'm really pleased about. There isn't a month she doesn't get punched or kicked or spat on.

Great video man - am about to graduate and plan on moving down south to Florida - want to live a nice lifestyle with the weather and have that flexibility to create a second career-revenue stream.

Well done, I did the same as you 18 years ago and left the UK to teach overseas. Since I have taught in Qatar, Egypt, Mexico and China.

Its great teaching people who want to be there. It's totally awful trying to teach disruptive people who have no interest in the subject and who are just there for their grant.

Don't ever be a teacher. You don't even need an accusation or a criminal record. I have never had either. Suspicion and gossip will ruin your life. It has mine.

Great video!

Same issues here in Australia. Great video. Thanks.

Great video 💖

Thank you for sharing this! I'm currently completing my NQT year in the UK and hoping to teach abroad in the near future. This video has really given me confidence that it is possible and something worth seriously considering.

I definitely agree on parents crap, politic and funding. When I was in college I spoke to an educator-to-be who was helping me proofread my essay. I learned we had an incident here in my county where a school took the time to apply for a grant. They were approved but once the education unified district director found out she demanded the grant be split between all schools in the area - after she took a good amount for herself under the excuse of Admin processing fee. The amount that came down was so small that they could do nothing with it and so without result, they lost the grant the following year.

Same problems here in the US! I’m quitting the brick and mortar schools. I’m applying to teach ESL online after this school year is over.

Funny enough, the parents aspect was interesting, I know many people that try and shift the parenting onto the teacher. Hope your well?

Great video, will you be doing a video about primary education with qts

It's pretty interesting to hear about this side of the story

Hello, would you have any idea about kings school nad el Sheba? Is It good?

I was also a secondary school teacher for over 10 years in the UK especially in London but I come from continental Europe. One of the main problem that I found is that children are never accountable for their actions. We do not teach them to fail, or consequences. I remember that I had to do on my holiday GCSE catch-up sessions for students who did not work for the whole year and it was my fault if they were failing. The guilt culture is big in the school in the UK

We have the same problem in the US. Kindergartners that haven’t been potty trained. Many behaviors problems from students due to lack of discipline by parents. Recently we had a young elementary student bring numerous E-NICs to sell at school.

Im finishing my PGDIP training for a FE lecturer. Its a killer i feel like im run over by a jeep. Its exhausting. It puts you off.

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Can someone tell me is school direct a 2 year NQTS & QTS or its much longer. Someone said its 5 years. Wth 😥

Hi, an agency told me some teacher now just teach in Academies without completing NQT even after QTS expires. I saw a job at 21k, PPA supply. I couldn't see the point in completing NQT personally. By the way, I really lost interest in UK schools.

Wow! It's WORSE in UK than the US but I hear that it's better in Dubai.

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What do you do now? I’m thinking of becoming a real estate agent but people keep telling I won’t make any money

Hang on - you applied for an EHCP as an NQT? Why? Where was the SENDCo, the person paid for that role?

Informative video 👍😊 #Strugglesofateacher

Is it worth it teaching in UAE?

I left for Finance/Tech, its not perfect but definatley better than teaching.

International teaching actually allows you to have a life - which teaching in the west doesn't allow. In my last school, I taught 2 lessons a day, which meant I had time to prep, time to mentor, time to be on committees, time to volunteer for extracurriculars. It was hard work, and I still brought work home during the evenings and weekends, but I had a balance. Compare that with my job back home, where I had one prep a week yet was always told I needed to do more for my students, and it's easy to see why people quit teaching in western countries.

I wish....wish wish wish wish wish I could also quit teaching......god I wish I could.... But I'm trapped since I am required to get my two ECT years over and done with...

I don't think most teachers would complain about providing breakfast for children - its part of pastoral care and schools are funded for such programmes especially in deprived areas. For some children school is the only place they receive a hot meal so teachers are proud to be part of a national effort to alleviate poverty. You wont find breakfast programmes for children in Dubai, that's for sure! Socindly you can not compare education in Dubai to the UK - it's private and maintained, its rich and poor, its society and myself. Its a completely parallel society and universe there. Great if you have the privilege and money and not so great for large sections of marginalised societies. It is an absolute thankless profession in the UK, that is correct - but being part of an inclusive education system that gives EVERY child the Right to education and to improved life chances is absolutely priceless and something to be extremely proud of.

Your reasons for quitting the job at UK (your native place) is I think true for all teachers , those who are working in there own country. This situation is everywhere. But as you are saying UAE is different then 👍

Hi, I just saw this post and really enjoyed listening to the perspective of an RQT who has now moved overseas. I myself recently completed my NQT (before the ECT changeover) and am now in Taiwan. It’s interesting the difference though with approaches to deciding to move overseas after completing ITT in the UK. I myself taught in Hong Kong for two years as a TEFL teacher, went back to the UK to undertake ITT and now the rest is history. I thought to comment on your political reflection in the video as I immediately consider politics within a school as well as within Government (big up Gavla). It seems that those who are ‘higher up’ within Schools with either department lead roles or abstract administration roles can have a louder voice than others within the same School. Thereby, they can have better treatment than others which if anything contradicts the British Values we’re taught to bide by with our Teacher Standards. With that said, my NQT school was amazing but I felt my PGCE year was polar opposite to my NQT. Anyway just thought to share and a very insightful video, thanks 🎶🌞

I worked at a secondary school in the UK as a receptionist and even I noticed how teachers had to take on a parental role...I was flabbergasted!! And such a toxic environment, I pulled my daughter out and then I quit. My daughter now attends an online school!

whereas in other parts of the world, think uk edu system is thousand times better. anyway, i believe you do great whereever you are..tqs for all your videos

I've recently left - I refuse to go back.. its a broken system in every aspect....

Is being a teacher a emotionally and mentally draining job compared to your typical 9-5 office?

Without indulging in a hyper verbose tirade it needs to be appreciated that the job of public school teaching in its current prevailing form is simply ridiculous and not tenable for any reasonably intelligent literate person who is not simply looking for some crappy civil service job which is mainly just an outlet for the craving of pointless stimulation prevalent in dull normal extroverts on petty tyrannical power trips looking to have groups of children to dominate and or humiliate every day in preference to actually working for a living somewhere in the adult economy where one must have both the humility and the drive to meet objective standards of quality control. In reality based employment one is expected to have mastered some technical skill which can be performed on demand for money such as cutting hair or repairing equipment such as furnaces and air conditioners. Teaching historically has merely been faked, appealed to lackadaisical duffers, bombasts, and mentally sadistic petty tyrants. But teachers are now so subject to scripted and micro-managed performances dealing with largely unqualified students owing to the chronic widespread practice of social promotion, that the entire enterprise has descended into insanity. And the practice of teaching has been so ruined that it will increasingly need to be automated and most likely privatized to an even greater extent. Anyone who would attend college to get certified as a school teacher is choosing a crap major and wasting their money the penalty for which will be to become saddled with student loan debt and the most frustrating and low paying pseudo-professional jobs.

I’m teaching between 53 to 60 learners in a class, lol

This is simply a promo to his ebook in teaching in the UAE.

I qualified as a teacher in UK. I never got the teaching job I wanted. I became unemployed for 3 years. They only offered me supply work. It was a waste of time. To not work in my prime years. I later left the UK and moved to Canada. Here, I am a Head of College a lot more happier with permanent assignment and am enjoying my life with all the perks I get. I only like to point out that it was a waste of time finding work in UK and also theres no point of teaching in UK. You will never find your ideal job.

He thinks 30 is a big class lol - he should have done his NQT year in 1978 with 44 in the class & NO non teaching assistant!

It you can't stand the heat...get out of the kitchen.

good the less teachers they are the better it is.

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You talk too fast...slow down.

Not even going to watch this. Why is it that so many "teachers" exiting the profession feel the need to make these videos. Have you considered you aren't cut out to be a teacher in the first place? Maybe you just don't possess those gifts. I'm never going to play for the NBA or be a Navy seal. I don't have what it takes. Count your losses, quit whining, and move on in your journey without all the whiny videos.