What degrees and that do you have to have to become an infants teacher? Do you have to go to university?

If you want to work at a daycare center, the requirements vary by location and by state. Private centers often do not require any training. State licensed facilities very often have strict requirements and guidelines. You will have to investigate the requirement of the facility that you are interested in working for. You may also contact your local state office for general requirements.

Someone has said you need an Early Childhood Education degree, but you don’t necessarily need this. You do need a degree of some kind. Some degrees also offer QTS, which is qualified teacher status. Some of these are just focused on education, and some offer a specialism such as English, maths, history etc. These degrees take 3 or 4 years. The ones that are education based are normally 3, while the ones with a specialism are normally 4, but this does vary depending on the university. Some degrees are for primary education in general, and some are more for specifically Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 (not called infants any more), or for Key Stage 2 (juniors). However, whatever you are trained in, you can take a teaching job throughout the whole primary range. So say all your training was for juniors, you could still take up an infant job. But obviously, people with experience in that age range are more likely to get it. So that’s one way in.

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

You would need a degree in Early Childhood Education. You do have to go to an university to obtain this degree.. You can even get it online.

http://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-degree/early-childhood-education-degree.htm

An infant’s teacher????????? What the heck is that?