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At this point in the training year, if you are on teaching experience, you are probably feeling quite stressed and under intense pressure from all the planning, marking and assignments. So what to do? Remember first off that you are not the only person who is 'hitting the wall'. All trainees (and there are up to 40,000 of you nationally) will be feeling hard pushed to eat sleep, work and succeed. There can be strength in numbers. 1....

how much detail do u have to provide? the topic title etc or the actual activities?

saira123: Hi  It sounds to me that although your practice was difficult, your mentor and uni wern't very supportive. in fact not at all, they should have been helping and giving you suggestions rather than negative criticism. have you considered starting again at another university? I agree, you should never have been in a position where they suggested you leaving the course out of the blue.  They should have raised...

No you can't. Teaching is a graduate profession, so you either need to have a bachelor's degree (not foundation degree) already or you have to complete one at the same time. If your friend has 240 CATS score, equivalent to two years of undergraduate study like HND, RTP (Registered Teacher Programme) may be possible where you study for a degree at the same time as working as unqualified teacher in school. It takes two years....

Try contacting your PGCE university often the careers services provide advice for recent graduates, or if you are near London the London University Careers Group provide such a service. There are useful careers guides also on www.prospects.ac.uk

There is no age limit.  The oldest person I ever accepted onto the PGCE course I run was 58 when he began in 2003.  A successful Solicitor with his own business, he decided to sell up and 'give something back to society'.  He is still teaching (Citizenship and English), now aged 65, in a challenging inner city comprehensive, and thoroughly enjoying himself.  He claims that working with...

Thank you for those ideas it gives me a direction to head in.

And a quick plug for: http://www.teaching-strategies-for-classroom-discipline.com

 Thank you James, for your helpful advice. I shall get a factual reference from the university and to be honest I do have doubts so I think withdrawal is my best option.   John.

Most people have had to prepare presentations for their jobs so if you ask them to think about how long it takes them to prepare a presentation, and that you have to do x number every day for 5 days, they usually start to understand why it takes so long. You could get them to try it for themselves if that fails!