AMI Montessori Diploma (3-6) for Trailing Spouse?
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:25 pm
Hello all,
I'm a math/physics IB teacher teaching at an international school in Shanghai with a trailing spouse who has a 4 year Bachelors degree in Economics and 2 years Corporate (Fortune 500 Experience) but no teaching experience. She would like to get qualified as an international teacher.
I was planning that we could all (including our baby) go back to the UK in a couple of years so that she could study for a 1 year PGCE (UK Teaching Certificate) and do two years teaching in the UK (Teaching A-level Economics) but recently my wife met another Shanghai Expat wife who has recently completed an 'AMI Montessori Diploma 3-6' and is now teaching at a Kindergarten attached to a well known international school.
I've done a bit of research and it seems this qualification can be studied one year full time or over three summers at various centres around the world.
So I am quite curious whether or not kindergarten qualifications count as 'qualified teacher' . If she got this would we count as a teaching couple?
Any and all feedback most welcome
I'm a math/physics IB teacher teaching at an international school in Shanghai with a trailing spouse who has a 4 year Bachelors degree in Economics and 2 years Corporate (Fortune 500 Experience) but no teaching experience. She would like to get qualified as an international teacher.
I was planning that we could all (including our baby) go back to the UK in a couple of years so that she could study for a 1 year PGCE (UK Teaching Certificate) and do two years teaching in the UK (Teaching A-level Economics) but recently my wife met another Shanghai Expat wife who has recently completed an 'AMI Montessori Diploma 3-6' and is now teaching at a Kindergarten attached to a well known international school.
I've done a bit of research and it seems this qualification can be studied one year full time or over three summers at various centres around the world.
So I am quite curious whether or not kindergarten qualifications count as 'qualified teacher' . If she got this would we count as a teaching couple?
Any and all feedback most welcome