Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Building a Teaching Career: A Step-By-Step Guide
McGraw Hill and King's College London
This course gave an understanding of teaching as a profession from the inside out. It reflected on the personal and professional qualities and motivations behind effective teachers. It provided a foundation in policy and strategy and their impact on culture, teaching practices and well-being.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Simon Gibbons
Director of Teacher Education, Kings College London
McGraw Hill
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the personal and professional qualities needed to be a teacher and consider your own motivations to enter the teaching profession
- Reflect on different research-informed notions of what it is to be a teacher
- Assess the extent to which teaching might be considered to be a profession or a craft
- Explore ideas around teacher identity and reflect on how you might develop your own sense of professional identity as you train to teach and then move into a career
- Evaluate the current policy context around schools and teacher education so that you can make informed choices about training routes and potential employment opportunities
- Explore the vital importance of well-being as you embark on a career in teaching
Syllabus
• Deciding to become a teacher; encouraging course participants to think about the sorts of people who become teachers, what motivates them and the professional and personal qualities teachers need.
• On being a teacher; encouraging participants to think about different ideas as to what a teacher; ideas about teaching as a ‘craft’ or a ‘profession’; the importance of research
• Developing teacher identity and sustaining a career as a teacher; encouraging participants to think about developing their teacher identity and to consider how to manage their wellbeing given the demands of the role
• The Policy Context: Schools and Teacher Education; encouraging participants to consider and become familiar with the current policy context surrounding schools and teacher education. This might be primarily drawing on the English context but could draw on international comparison.
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Issued on 19th March 2026
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