What degrees and that do you have to have to become an infants teacher? Do you have to go to university?
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Another way, is to do a degree in anything – philosophy, art, media, anything. Once you have your degree you can apply to do a PGCE. This is a one year course, or longer if part time, which is obviously more intense than a 3 or 4 year degree course, and involves at least 3 (I think) teaching practices in schools. There are PGCE courses, and there are SCITT PGCE courses, which are supposed to be more school based than ordinary PGCE courses, and I think most are, but the one I did I couldn’t tell any difference to a normal PGCE course. PGCEs are also done through universities.
There are also Graduate Teaching Programmes (GTP) which are also for after you have your degree, where you train in one school only (I think!). I believe you have to apply to local education authorities about these. There is also another route which is similar to the GTP, but I can’t remember the details for that one.
Also, once you have gone down whichever route you decide, you are not fully qualified as a teacher until you have taught for a year. During that first year you are known as an NQT, or Newly Qualified Teacher, and get extra training from whichever education authority you are teaching in.
I hope this helped
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-degree/early-childhood-education-degree.htm