Electrician and Teacher - which route?
Jul 24th 2009, 4:40 pm
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Re: Electrician and Teacher - which route?
Hi Snoopster
I have the following at present (lol, as if i have the time to add more!)
BHons Music (3 year degree)
PGCE (QTS) Secondary Teaching
I am willing to do other courses (maybe open uni or something?) to add weight to my prospects. Considering child social work or counselling..not sure really. My Head suggested I do a Masters to further myself (this was suggested as part of my professional development, not towards emigrating plans obviously).
I have retail experience as well as receptionist/purchase ledger experience. Love working with animals and would love to run a kennel one day!
Jul 24th 2009, 6:27 pm
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Re: Electrician and Teacher - which route?
I can only speak for here in Alberta, but it is likely you will have to undertake some form of extra semester hours of study before you can gain a teaching certificate. You will have to apply to the provincial board of education for certification upon arrival (you can't do this beforehand - my OH tried and because he didn't have a SIN (social insurance number) or a Canadian address they turned him away). They will issue you with a reference number and you wait...wait...wait some more until they give you a response that will detail exactly what extra quals you need to gain certification.
However, you may just want to pursue private music tuition - which may be a lot easier. I have a friend who emigrated to NS last September, and now works 30 hours a week doing extra curricular music for a private company, getting around $30 per hour, so that may be a better alternative, or certainly a stop gap while you pursue certification. Basically, the less time you spent doing actual education study at uni, the more semester hour credits you will need to make up. They love the good old 4 year B.Ed here, so I've only got to take one course in Canadian Studies, but with PGCE, I think you'll have to do a little more - maybe 2 or 3. However, every province is different so depending on where you go, it may differ for you.
Hope this helps
However, you may just want to pursue private music tuition - which may be a lot easier. I have a friend who emigrated to NS last September, and now works 30 hours a week doing extra curricular music for a private company, getting around $30 per hour, so that may be a better alternative, or certainly a stop gap while you pursue certification. Basically, the less time you spent doing actual education study at uni, the more semester hour credits you will need to make up. They love the good old 4 year B.Ed here, so I've only got to take one course in Canadian Studies, but with PGCE, I think you'll have to do a little more - maybe 2 or 3. However, every province is different so depending on where you go, it may differ for you.
Hope this helps
Jul 24th 2009, 6:29 pm
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Re: Electrician and Teacher - which route?
One more thing....my advice would be not to do extra study in the UK, as they tend to like Canadian based extra study better, and any extra courses they recommend will have to be approved by the senior credentials advisor for your province, otherwise it's a waste of time, so get any extra study approved by them first.
Good luck
Good luck
Jul 24th 2009, 6:30 pm
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Snoopster, that really helps!
Jul 24th 2009, 7:03 pm
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As Steve said, depends on your point of view innit? Central as far as I'm concerned, would say Manitoba, Ontario and SK would be central and Quebec onwards Eastern.
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Jul 24th 2009, 7:11 pm
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Re: Electrician and Teacher - which route?
As Steve said, depends on your point of view innit? Central as far as I'm concerned, would say Manitoba, Ontario and SK would be central and Quebec onwards Eastern.
P.S. Just in case you didn't know, you can edit your posts - seeing as you only added 3 words, might be easier than deleting and doing another one.
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Jul 24th 2009, 7:16 pm
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Jul 25th 2009, 12:32 am
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Re: Electrician and Teacher - which route?
As Steve said, depends on your point of view innit? Central as far as I'm concerned, would say Manitoba, Ontario and SK would be central and Quebec onwards Eastern.
P.S. Just in case you didn't know, you can edit your posts - seeing as you only added 3 words, might be easier than deleting and doing another one.
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For example, Toronto to Vancouver - 4,373 km, Toronto to Moncton 1,522 km.
I would say the maths shows it's eastern not central.
Jul 25th 2009, 1:07 am
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Re: Electrician and Teacher - which route?
I've looking into converting my BSc & PGCE into NS teaching and need 39 credit hours extra basically covering a second subject and some professional stuff - I think this is between 12 and 18 months university and about $10k...
Jul 25th 2009, 7:09 am
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Re: Electrician and Teacher - which route?
So even those living there have different points of view!
Jul 25th 2009, 4:56 pm
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Well according to that logic, I live in Eastern England, despite being in the middle - but I am closer to the east coast than the west! Nope, still say central I'm afraid. And I asked my ex who lives in Toronto last night, he said he'd only describe NS, PEI, Newfoundland and NB as eastern.
So even those living there have different points of view!
So even those living there have different points of view!
Jul 25th 2009, 6:23 pm
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Re: Electrician and Teacher - which route?
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Jul 25th 2009, 6:27 pm
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