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Daughter is at a crossroads re teaching. Changed jobs with the usual promises only to find out that the school wishes to carry on as per normal, not willing to accept change. So my question to any ex teachers is ... what did you do next? what are the transferable skills? Where and what should she be looking at? Her degree is in applied arts/textile design but over the past 15yrs teaching has gained many other qualifications and respect from other schools in the area. Just seems the new school, some members of staff, are not willing to accept her way of working. May question therefore is what did you do after leaving teaching? Daughter has a son planning to go to uni this year. Daughter going into 2nd year. Is a single parent with an ex partner who is a waste of space......
Have a look at the Civil Service. Candidates are asked to demonstrate behaviours and strengths along specific specialist skills.
I was an IT/Computer Science teacher for 18 years, I moved into a data role in Radiological Risk Assessment and now manage my org's data protection, records management and FOI.
We've also recently recruited some former teachers for youth outreach roles and I've had a side project developing a new geography syllabus for an overseas territory.
No qualms about leaving teaching, much prefer the hours, flexible time off and not having a stupidly rigid timetable to stick to. 😉
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi
https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/behaviours/
Have a look at the Civil Service
We have a noticeable number of ex-teachers coming through, mostly wanting a better work/life balance.
Those that want to seem to progress quite quickly - a year or two in post and then often successful on the internal fast track programmes. Teaching seems to make them quite resilient in the face of the civil service chaos, msinly as you're not expected to do loads of extra hours outside of working hours.
Went from Primary into the civil service and echo what is said above. Yes, for some jobs you need certain skills or qualifications (I luckily had these before teaching) but they are looking for transferable behaviours and strengths at interview.
There a 40 y/o ex PE teacher at our place for a year now (we work in food supply chain data), she got the job as project manager and excels, works less, gets paid more and can take her holiday whenever she wants.
I'm an ex-academic for similar reasons. Find a sector that interests and apply for some jobs - bear in mind you are free to leave and chop and change jobs - the rest of the world is not like teaching where theres only one job....
One thing she needs to do is really negotiate pay. She is coming from a sector where the pay scales mean there is zero negotiation, and you have to account for giving up that amazing teachers pension (add £10k+). If offered a job she needs to negotiate fairly hard, they won't retract an offer for asking.
Thanks for the replies, I will pass on the feedback
Not sure what you are saying in your opening post. Has she moved to a new school as a head of department/senior staff. Or as a teacher?
If the latter what did she genuinely expect?
If the former, has she got powers to discipline the non-cooperative staff? Is there no back up from the head?
FWIW - my niece moved from teaching into child services as a commissioning officer. Can’t say she’s any happier though.
We employ over teachers or Early Years educators, plus some environmental educators/ ex outdoor instructors.
They work teaching others to use the outdoors for teaching and play, and develop school grounds.
It's not as well paid, but the job and organisation is wonderful.
We're just at the end of a recruitment phase.
I'm expecting some really rather exciting roles shortly - creating and leading a global campaign, training and support programme with 20 different countries.
Posting this reminds me we have a bunch of new staff not on here.
https://ltl.org.uk/our-team/
I left teaching after 15 years and worked for myself building and property development.
Had a very supportive wife who backed and trusted me.
Really enjoyed the freedom and ability to be reasonably flexible.
Lots of transferable skills particularly with people skills although I spent the first few years wanting to throttle unreliable tradesmen.
I am now also working with a bike project putting some of my skills to use and there are many areas for working in this area. Lots of people well paid and making a difference in the social enterprise sector.
Hope that helps. If they happen to be in Plymouth they can drop me a line for contacts.
A friend recently left primary teaching by finding a job in a small local office of a large national data modelling/analysis company. I think they originally applied to an apprenticeship but managed to get a "real job" instead. They seem way happier purely by virtue of having their life back and finishing work at normal times. They're able to learn the coding but already have the people managing skills which don't necessarily come naturally to many in that field, so essentially on a fast track to leading a team/projects. Took a big hit to salary to low level grad numbers, but I suspect it's only a matter of time before they race past me...