As a fellow guy in education, my suggestion to you is to switch to something you enjoy teaching, or you will hate it and burn out pretty quickly. 

I teach elementary education (specifically 1-3rd grades) and its the age range I like working with. I get to teach every subject and help them build a basic, broad foundation. If I had to teach only one subject or work with older kids, I know I'd hate it and quit. I also like working with challenging populations (inner-city poor and special education) because it keeps it from getting boring. I taught at a inner-city school last year and am teaching at an all-special ed school this year and I love it.

My point is, find your niche in education or you'll end up hating it, lol. 

Long long ago I used to be a teacher, mainly of Maths, though I originally graduated in a mixture of Science and Philosophy. I taught some Physics for a while, but managed to drop it after a few years. Once someone gets a teaching job there are often opportunities to change from one subject to another. Just wait until someone leaves or retires and there's no-one available to take on their work, and then volunteer. I taught Communications to Business Studies students one year and it made an interesting change.

You have my best wishes. I hope you have a very successful teaching career, stimulating young minds to think.

As a fellow guy in education, my suggestion to you is to switch to something you enjoy teaching, or you will hate it and burn out pretty quickly. 

 

I teach elementary education (specifically 1-3rd grades) and its the age range I like working with. I get to teach every subject and help them build a basic, broad foundation. If I had to teach only one subject or work with older kids, I know I'd hate it and quit. I also like working with challenging populations (inner-city poor and special education) because it keeps it from getting boring. I taught at a inner-city school last year and am teaching at an all-special ed school this year and I love it.

 

My point is, find your niche in education or you'll end up hating it, lol. 

Eventually I will be back into the social studies department, but at present it's a matter of giving myself enough 'teachables' that I'm even hired to begin with. Social studies is oversaturated with teachers, so I haven't gotten hired by any local boards to teach it. That's in contrast to science, where I can get myself on the sub list and then wait out the bad listings.

Long long ago I used to be a teacher, mainly of Maths, though I originally graduated in a mixture of Science and Philosophy. I taught some Physics for a while, but managed to drop it after a few years. Once someone gets a teaching job there are often opportunities to change from one subject to another. Just wait until someone leaves or retires and there's no-one available to take on their work, and then volunteer. I taught Communications to Business Studies students one year and it made an interesting change.

 

You have my best wishes. I hope you have a very successful teaching career, stimulating young minds to think.

Thank you very much Ancientrichard. I know that once I'm in, it'll be okay. I'm not even worried about being a substitute/supply teacher, I have a lot of teacher friends I can call on for favours to get me days and even weeks of paid work, so I won't want for employment...

Hopefully I get to do some good in the world through teaching, perhaps at the prison school.