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Teacher - Secondary School - Home Economics

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Home economics teachers prepare and give lessons in topics such as family health and lifestyle, budgeting, childcare and parenting, nutrition and diet, food preparation and hygiene, fashion and textiles and consumer studies. They work to guidelines set up by the Curriculum for Excellence and prepare pupils, aged 11 to 18, for national exams. They may also be called Teacher of Food and Fashion Technology.

The Work

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Pay

Teachers in Scotland are paid on a national salary scale. The starting annual salary for a probationer teacher is £32,217 (January 2024).

If you do your probationary period on the Teacher Induction Scheme, and are prepared to work anywhere in Scotland during that probationary year, you can also apply for the Preference Waiver Payment. For secondary school teachers, the payment is £8,000 before tax and national insurance.

After your probationary year, your salary will increase to £38,655 and increase an increment each year up to £48,516.

Where a teacher is employed in a remote school on a distant island both the remote schools allowance and the distant islands allowance are paid, in addition to the teacher’s normal salary.

A principal teacher earns between £52,896 and £68,265 a year, while the scale for depute head teachers and head teachers ranges from £59,994 to £110,808 a year, depending on the size of school.

Salaries in independent schools may differ slightly.

Conditions

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Getting In

To qualify as a secondary school teacher of home economics, you need a degree (SCQF Level 9-10) in consumer studies or food and consumer studies or consumer and textile studies, or similar, plus a Professional Graduate Diploma (SCQF Level 11) in Education (PGDE) OR the BA Hons Food, Nutrition and Textiles Education at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI Perth) or the new BSc Hons Education and Curricular Studies with Teaching Qualification at the University of Strathclyde (SCQF Level 10).

Your degree

PGDE

Alternative Routes

You will require a satisfactory criminal record check from Disclosure Scotland to show that you are suitable for this type of work. Contact Disclosure Scotland for details on the type you would need.

Newly qualified teachers who want to teach in local council schools must complete a probationary period to demonstrate that they meet the Standard for Full Registration of the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTC Scotland). Those who wish to teach in independent schools may also require to be registered.

You are guaranteed a teaching post with a Scottish local authority for a full school year to complete this probationary period.

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Employment

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Job Outlook Scotland and UK

  Scotland
2024
25545
2.1 %
RISE
2029
26081
  United Kingdom
2024
342408
1.6 %
RISE
2029
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Training

Getting On

More Information

Most teachers work in authority council schools but there are also jobs in independent schools, British schools abroad, such as schools for the children of British armed services and in private tuition.

Job vacancies are normally advertised on local authority websites or look on the myjobscotland website.

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Contacts

The following organisations may be able to provide further information.

Education Scotland
Tel: 0131 244 4330
E-mail: enquiries@educationscotland.gov.scot
Website: https://education.gov.scot/
Twitter: @EducationScot

General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTC Scotland)
Tel: 0131 314 6000
E-mail: gtcs@gtcs.org.uk
Website: http://www.gtcs.org.uk/
Twitter: @gtcs

For information on registration as a teacher.

Teach in Scotland
Tel: 0845 345 4745
E-mail: teachinscotland@gtcs.org.uk
Website: http://teachinscotland.scot

University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
Tel: 0371 468 0 468
Website: http://www.ucas.com
Website (2): https://www.ucas.com/postgraduate/teacher-training/train-teach-scotland
Twitter: @ucas_online
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ucasonline

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