
Teach First Latest Reviews

Taster paticipant
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The programme was very enjoyable From entering the building to the end of the two days I didnt feel bored at any time and felt the programme was well planned and organised I thoroughly enjoyed the activities and the range of advice given throughout the

Teach First Taster Programme
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I thoroughly enjoyed all aspects the taster programme including meeting the teach first team teaching a group of year 6 Î÷¹ÏÊÓÆµs confidence building workshops and meeting undergraduates like myself It was very interactive and we were constantly engage

Teach First Taster Programme
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The insight was enjoyable It a lot of time was spent describing and advertising the various schemes that TeachFirst offer I found this helpful and I hope to complete some of them in the future The most valuable and enjoyable part was when we had the op

Insight participant
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The 2 week insight placement was really enjoyable because there were a range of activities each day so it was very engaging and interactive The first week compromised of training and the second week was a placement in a teach first partner school The b

Student
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I absolutely loved the placement within the school we were really immersed straight away and the training really helped us to feel well prepared to go into that environment However I did struggle a bit with the training week prior to the school placeme

Insight Programme
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
It was more than I expected The first week is focused on training which covered more than I thought it would whilst the second week is a school placement I adored my school placement and how much say I had over what I did to the point Im hoping to do

Teaching Taster
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
It was very interesting insight that allowed me to begin to understand both the work that Teach First do and how their graduate leadership programme works to get good teachers into some of the most disadvantaged schools in the UK The two days were full o

TeachFirst Insight
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I really enjoyed insight it was great meeting all the other participants and I made some friends for life It was exhausting but worth it I felt like week one was dragged out a little bit there were some work shops and lectures that I felt were unneces

Taster Day Participant
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I thoroughly enjoyed the insight and I found it extremely helpful in deciding whether to pursue a career with this company They conveyed the values and mission of the company extremely well and they taught me some valuable transferable skills that I wa

Student
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
The Insight Programme was greatly enjoyable offering two very different weeks The first covers skills behind teaching the aims behind the charity and shows many of the options available to you other than teaching after the programme The next week was m

Insight Programme
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I really enjoyed the second week of the placement as it involved time spent in a school teaching and observing However the first week was taxing in the sense that it felt repetitive tedious and just long on the whole Thirdly the last day could have b

Teach First Insight Programme Participant
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I thoroughly enjoyed the insight programme I found it very telling and insightful I learned a lot about Teach First and what it does The week of training also opened my eyes to the grave issue of educational inequality it the UK I enjoyed interacting

Insight participant
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I found that the insight programme was very useful overall in helping my decision on whether to go into teaching I felt that skills taught in the first week were not all relevant but overall I gained a lot from the experience and thoroughly enjoyed the s

Insight Scheme Participant
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I enjoyed the scheme as it included a week of the theory behind teaching which enabled me to learn the key skills and ideologies behind teaching For example I learned how to plan a lesson classroom management techniques and had a child safeguarding wo

Insight Participant 2019
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Really enjoyed the content and the planned activities Most of the sessions were really interesting and the first week of training was very intense but fun The second week felt a lot slower as I was just observing lessons and making notes but actually t

Teach First Summer Insight Program
- Teach First
- Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
I enjoyed the insight program overall especially week 2 as this involved teaching Î÷¹ÏÊÓÆµs in an allocated school However week 1 was somewhat tedious and I felt that because some of the training was very basic and didnt require the attention and time