 To attract the highest calibre of candidates into teaching, the Institute of Physics is offering teacher training scholarships to 100 outstanding individuals. As an IRP scholar, you will not only receive £20,000 of help through your training, you will also become part of a scholarship community, giving you endless opportunities to make a difference to the future of physics education. The biggest single influence on children's success in and enjoyment of physics is their classroom teacher, so we want to get more high quality classroom physics teachers into the profession. Therefore, we are saying to the top graduates in physics and engineering, this is a job for you. It's important, it's challenging, it's rewarding. We're saying teaching physics is doing physics. To be successful means your application clearly stood out from the crowd. You are shortlisted and invited to attend an assessment day at the IRP. So the assessment day arrives, you're probably a little nervous, eager to do well and ready to give your all in the attempt to become one of the 100 deserving scholars. It's a little daunting, isn't it? But what should you expect on an assessment day? On arrival, your photo will be taken and you'll receive your timetable for the day before moving in to meet other potential scholars over lunch. Here you've got the opportunity to do some networking and meet other potential new teachers. It also gives you the chance to chat with IRP staff, many of which were physics teachers in the past. What we're really trying to test for is the real understanding of physics at the school level. So there's 26 questions, takes them about 30 minutes. And then all the sort of questions where you have to do large numbers of calculations, what you really have to do is understand the physics at the appropriate level so that you can, if you can't understand it, you can't explain it. So to be a good teacher, you really have to understand it deeply. During the discussion, your communication skills and ability to interact with each other is being assessed. You'll select a topical educational issue out of a box and we'll have the opportunity to demonstrate your opinion on it by starting a group discussion. The interview is for some the most nerve-wracking part of the day, although he'll look like he's doing pretty good in there. There are two interviewers who ask a number of physics questions. Prior to the assessment day, you were given two of these questions and asked to prepare your answers. We're kind of looking for three things really. The first is a real enthusiasm for physics, but not just an enthusiasm, the ability to kind of explain it clearly. You can be fantastically enthusiastic, but if you can't actually explain it to pupils, that's not really going to work. So enthusiasm but clarity is kind of the first thing. The second thing really is they've got to be able to relate well to children, but we need the scholars to be a little bit special in terms of potential for real leadership. If you're not awarded an IOP scholarship, please don't give up on teaching. Although we only have a limited number of scholarships to award, there's still a huge demand for physics teachers. Make sure you've got some school experience under your belt. If you do a physics or physics with maths PGCE, you will still be entitled to some funding through government bursaries. And finally, there will be many different opportunities for you to get involved with the IOP. See you guys over the days.