Apologies for the probably daft question but I've never been clear on this.
Does "X years of full-time teaching" mean:
A: X years, not including training year or NQT year
B: X years, not including training year but including NQT year
C: X years, including both year of teacher training and NQT year.
I ask because in the UK you are not technically on a full timetable until the year following your NQT year. (I have no idea how this works in the US either or if you call NQTs something different, sorry.)
"X years of full-time teaching experience" means:
Response
NQT isnt the term anymore its ECT (Early Career Teacher) and its 2 years now, not 1.
Short Answer: Its B, youre NQT/ECT year/s but not youre EPP/ITT year.
Long Answer:
The standard is Teacher of Record (TOR), were you the DT/IT assigned to a full time equivalent (FTE) appointment, responsible for lesson plans, instructional services, marking/grading, and the submission of End of Course (EOC) evaluation/marks/grades/Recommendation for Advancement (RFA)?
If the answer to those is yes, than the experience counts, you may find ISs that will grant step for experience that is less than or different than that definition as well. It really depends though what the supplying DSs/ISs say in the service record/duty report/reference/etc. If you sat in a room and monitored students using a computer/media lab and you didnt do anything but answer some questions and fix technical problems but you were required to hold an edu credential to do that if the DS/IS report/record states thats experience than its experience.
Having some additional release time for preparation throughout the day or week and/or having a mentor or other edu (such as a DT/IT, HOD, mentor) that oversees you doesnt matter.
In the US, in general, a professional grade credential requires a period of field work/experience. This can take a number of forms with varying levels of responsibility. In the traditional/academic pathway (Uni. PGCE, etc.) this is most often student teaching, this wouldnt count as experience as your shadowing a classroom DT who has responsibility for the classroom and classes. Gradually over the term, the student teacher takes on more responsibility for instruction and classroom management. It is also possible though less common in the academic route to do an internship. In the skills pathway ( Sc.Dir., etc.) a candidate usually does a year long internship. The internship would count as experience as typically the candidate is the TOR. Its also possible on the skills pathway to do clinical teaching which is nearly identical to student teaching. The primary difference being that student teaching is taken as a course and those the student teacher receives a grade for it and to facilitate this course Uni.s have pretty formal agreements and policies that describe just what role the student teacher has and will do. In clinical teaching the relationship between the EPP/ITT program and the DS/IS is usually much less rigid with more flexibility. While I have heard of student teachers that got dumped into a class or classroom on their own its pretty rare, whereas such a thing or something similar happens more often but is still rare (more than likely the skills EPP/ITT program would convert the candidate from clinical teaching to internship). The primary difference that like student teaching, clinical teaching is nonsalaried and a single term/semester whereas internships are salaried and typically an academic year.
Despite these commonalities there is still great difference, Teach Readys field experience is a mere 5 days even if you were successful in meeting all the criterion defined above, no one in IE cares about 5 days of experience. Teach Nows field experience is 12 weeks and it would typically count as a term of experience. More so the IT from Teach Now is more likely to get a reference letter that an IT from Teach Ready, 5 days just isnt much to base a recommendation on.
Short Answer: Its B, youre NQT/ECT year/s but not youre EPP/ITT year.
Long Answer:
The standard is Teacher of Record (TOR), were you the DT/IT assigned to a full time equivalent (FTE) appointment, responsible for lesson plans, instructional services, marking/grading, and the submission of End of Course (EOC) evaluation/marks/grades/Recommendation for Advancement (RFA)?
If the answer to those is yes, than the experience counts, you may find ISs that will grant step for experience that is less than or different than that definition as well. It really depends though what the supplying DSs/ISs say in the service record/duty report/reference/etc. If you sat in a room and monitored students using a computer/media lab and you didnt do anything but answer some questions and fix technical problems but you were required to hold an edu credential to do that if the DS/IS report/record states thats experience than its experience.
Having some additional release time for preparation throughout the day or week and/or having a mentor or other edu (such as a DT/IT, HOD, mentor) that oversees you doesnt matter.
In the US, in general, a professional grade credential requires a period of field work/experience. This can take a number of forms with varying levels of responsibility. In the traditional/academic pathway (Uni. PGCE, etc.) this is most often student teaching, this wouldnt count as experience as your shadowing a classroom DT who has responsibility for the classroom and classes. Gradually over the term, the student teacher takes on more responsibility for instruction and classroom management. It is also possible though less common in the academic route to do an internship. In the skills pathway ( Sc.Dir., etc.) a candidate usually does a year long internship. The internship would count as experience as typically the candidate is the TOR. Its also possible on the skills pathway to do clinical teaching which is nearly identical to student teaching. The primary difference being that student teaching is taken as a course and those the student teacher receives a grade for it and to facilitate this course Uni.s have pretty formal agreements and policies that describe just what role the student teacher has and will do. In clinical teaching the relationship between the EPP/ITT program and the DS/IS is usually much less rigid with more flexibility. While I have heard of student teachers that got dumped into a class or classroom on their own its pretty rare, whereas such a thing or something similar happens more often but is still rare (more than likely the skills EPP/ITT program would convert the candidate from clinical teaching to internship). The primary difference that like student teaching, clinical teaching is nonsalaried and a single term/semester whereas internships are salaried and typically an academic year.
Despite these commonalities there is still great difference, Teach Readys field experience is a mere 5 days even if you were successful in meeting all the criterion defined above, no one in IE cares about 5 days of experience. Teach Nows field experience is 12 weeks and it would typically count as a term of experience. More so the IT from Teach Now is more likely to get a reference letter that an IT from Teach Ready, 5 days just isnt much to base a recommendation on.
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Re: "X years of full-time teaching experience" means:
B, with most established schools also excluding any experience before you earned a qualification.
Re: "X years of full-time teaching experience" means:
Got it, thanks all.