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Teaching abroad or Sub-Teaching here??? HELP!!

  • 11-12-2007 11:01am
    #1
    PrincessFiona
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    I am currently in my last year of a B.A. in English and Irish and plan to do my PGCE in 2009 as I won't get in with my second year results, so this leaves me with a year out. Sounds like fun, but as a student in between courses I will still be broke! I would love to gain teaching experience and earn money, buy a car etc. so i'm ready to start my career in style! :D

    I am aware that it is difficult to get sub-teaching in Ireland as an unqualfied teacher. Also, i'm not sure I would be confident enough yet going into a classroom when i'm only 3 years out of it myself! Is it easier to get in dublin or country schools (I'm from the midlands)? How many hours pw on average would a sub-teacher get?

    I was also considering teaching abroad on a year contract. I know the Sabis schools take on unqualified teachers to teach in/ around Dubai. The money's only sufficient but it would be great teaching experience to get. Although I did hear some negative things about its strict teaching schemes, and am not sure if I want to go for an entire year.

    I want to make the most of my year out. My number one priority is to get experience teaching. Then have fun and earn a bob. Decisions, decisions, please help me out!

    Fiona.


Comments

  • #2
    rainbowtrout
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    i don't think it's any easier to getting subbing in any school, easiest way would be to send your CV out to lots of schools and see what response you get. There is no defined number of hours of subbing, it depends on what the school that hires you requires. It might be easier to base yourself in an area and send your CVs to all the schools in that area.

    An alternative to going to Dubai might be to go to England and sub there or do the PGCE over there. There are some incentives for becoming a teacher in England, although I don't know the details here, so I can't advise.

    There are a few subs in my school at the moment who have their degree but do not have PGCE so it's not impossible to get subbing if you are willing to move.
    As for the being young and starting teaching, I was 21 when I graduated, so it is a bit odd going into a Leaving Cert class where there are students only a few years younger than you , but you get over that. They do tend to assume that because you are a teacher that you are automatically older. Once you don't go drinking in the same pubs as them you'll be ok ;)


  • #3
    gaf1983
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    I taught in a Sabis school in Qatar last year, and while I would agree that while some of the times you did have to stick rigidly to their teaching methods, there was scope for employing other teaching methods as long as your classes didn't fall behind schedule in their work.

    Some of my colleagues in Qatar were studying for their PGCEs alongside working, the University of Sunderland had a distance learning arrangement and they have assessors based in the Gulf. It was a heavy enough workload for them, combining 30 hours teaching a week with correcting and their own study.


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