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engineering dregree but want to get into secondary teaching

  • 10-12-2009 8:17pm
    #1
    staffy69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭


    i've just completed a 3 year coarse in electro-mechanical engineering but my interest is in teaching secondary level mathematics.. im wondering can i use my degree to get into teaching maths and whats the quickist way to do this part-time?? :rolleyes:


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  • #2
    Eoin D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭Eoin D


    staffy69 wrote: »
    i've just completed a 3 year coarse in electro-mechanical engineering but my interest is in teaching secondary level mathematics.. im wondering can i use my degree to get into teaching maths and whats the quickist way to do this part-time?? :rolleyes:

    I'm no expert in this matter but it's my understanding that you need a H.dip in order to teach. I also qualified in Engineering and briefly considered teaching maths but decided against it


  • #3
    claire h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭claire h


    ... what, you saw the budget and thought, ah, yeah, I'd like to be where all those paycuts are?! ;)

    Check Teaching Council website to see if your specific degree contained enough maths to count for teaching purposes.

    Re: Grad Dip, it's one-year full-time (including teaching practice) OR if you're already teaching you could go for something like the part-time one at DCU (don't know if other places offer that) - I'm not sure if you can do it part-time unless you're already in an educational setting.


  • #4
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Moved from Postgrads.

    The teachers here will be able to give you a feel for what it really is like out there at the moment.


  • #5
    niall3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭niall3r


    Just out of curiosity where did you go that you could get a three year degree in engineering? I have friends who graduated from all the uni's and most of the IT's and it was four years across the board, or so I thought. . . damn my omniscience is acting up :)

    check the below website to see if your degree is recognised. If it is then apply for the PGDE. You want to do it part time: then DCU is the place for you in that its part time over two years instead of full time for one.


    http://www.teachingcouncil.ie/_fileupload/TC_RegCtee/Autoquals_Updated_9thOctober2009_55076717.pdf


  • #6
    clartharlear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭clartharlear


    I'd just like to warn you that I have a 4 year degree in engineering, and my degree is on the teaching council's list. They let me do the dip, but then sent me a letter a few months after finishing saying that my degree wasn't eligible after all.

    Be dog wide.


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