If you'd like to use your teaching qualification outside the mainstream educational settings, you'll find ideas here. For some of these roles a teaching qualification is not essential. This 66-page PDF is produced by AGCAS (Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services). If you need information from this PDF in a different format please let us know: email careers@ed.ac.uk telephone +44 (0)131 650 4670 British Sign Language (BSL) users can contact us via contactSCOTLAND-BSL, the on-line BSL interpreting service. The PDF has information on the following roles which involve teaching, but not in mainstream education. Most but not all of these roles require teaching qualifications. Document Education Alternatives 2021 (AGCAS publication) (604.17 KB / PDF) Adult and community education Alternative education Alternative provision Environmental education Health education and promotion Museum education officer Out of school learning Special education Teaching English as a foreign or second language Traveller Education Services Tutoring Working with offenders It also covers roles within the broader education sector. Most of these roles do not require a teaching qualification, but in many cases it could be beneficial: Family support and advocacy work Learning holidays Learning resources Playwork School assessment and support services Schools liaison/higher education liaison officer Sports, leisure and outdoor education Therapy and health roles Visual and performing arts Voluntary and charity sector roles Youth work
