IOE Easter courses

dairemcq

Hey
I'm planning on doing these courses for English, German and Applied Maths.
I've heard the English is amazing, but does anyone know if the other two will be worth the money?
Thanks

3_BOoYA_X

dairemcq wrote: »

Hey
I'm planning on doing these courses for English, German and Applied Maths.
I've heard the English is amazing, but does anyone know if the other two will be worth the money?
Thanks

Yeah ive english booked too. Heard from a girl in my year one of the english chaps writes the lc books & hes brilliant. But i duno if theres going to be a few different ones depending on the time we select..

Ment to be wayy overpriced but well worth it if your willing to pay.

leesmom

i had the german teacher for three years and for grinds, shes amazing but flies through the stuff so make sure you're wide awake! if you need help with any particular thing go up to her at the end of the class she will go out of her way to help you, what english teacher are you doing the grinds with?

leg

Im doing english, irish, chemistry and biology hopefully they'll be good

DancingQueen:)

I'm doing english aswel, i'll see you all there! Also doing french and business. Did it for third year and thought it was amazing.

kev9100

Is anyone doing French and Biology in the first week?

3_BOoYA_X

kev9100 wrote: »

Is anyone doing French and Biology in the first week?

Doing french.:)

DancingQueen:)

I have English second class, Business third and then French last. I decided to give myself the morning off Not sure what times as I havn't got them infront of me but it's the first week.

theowen

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

I have English second class, Business third and then French last. I decided to give myself the morning off Not sure what times as I havn't got them infront of me but it's the first week.

How do they work the english? Is it per section e.g. 300 for drama, 300 for paper 1? I doubt they do all four do they?

DancingQueen:)

theowen wrote: »

How do they work the english? Is it per section e.g. 300 for drama, 300 for paper 1? I doubt they do all four do they?

As in what do they cover in the course? It says in the booklet they do comprehending and composing, King Lear, some poets and some comparative work. I doubt they'll cover the whole course with everyone studying different things but they'll show you how to answer questions and things like that. What so you mean by 300?

pfannkuchen

kev9100 wrote: »

Is anyone doing French and Biology in the first week?

Biology! I've always been an A1 student but I got a bit of a shock in the mocks... My teacher is fairly awful and I need an A1, so hoping that this course will help! Did Chemistry at Christmas and it was unreal!

irish_man

hi
I did the Christmas revision course
I did physics (both parts) Irish and business (B)

I would highly recommend any of the subjects i did
they make me think I could get a A1 in all three
even though that's probably not going to happen

unknown13

I will be doing English and I may do Geography aswell.

Irishman was both parts of Physics charged separately or included in the price

irish_man

unknown13 wrote: »

I will be doing English and I may do Geography aswell.

Irishman was both parts of Physics charged separately or included in the price

well physics was divided into two so i had to pay seperately for both section for A and B
it was the price of two subjects

theowen

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

As in what do they cover in the course? It says in the booklet they do comprehending and composing, King Lear, some poets and some comparative work. I doubt they'll cover the whole course with everyone studying different things but they'll show you how to answer questions and things like that. What so you mean by 300?

I meant 300 euro:rolleyes:

DancingQueen:)

theowen wrote: »

I meant 300 euro:rolleyes:

Oh right, sorry. It's €275 for one subject. If you were to do English then you would cover comprenhending and composing, King Lear, poems from the 8 poets and a selection of texts for the comparative study. That's what it says in the booklet anyway and it's covered in 5 classes, all together thats €275. Although some subects (like Business and Chemistry) have two sections so you'd have to pay for both separately.

Weedikins

Might be worth asking if the revision course teachers are full-time with the Inst or just brought in for your course. Those who teach the day-course students are excellent.

theowen

Weedikins wrote: »

Might be worth asking if the revision course teachers are full-time with the Inst or just brought in for your course. Those who teach the day-course students are excellent.

It's a mix as far as I know.

DancingQueen:)

What did everyone think of it? It was packed but I thought the teachers and notes were amazing

theowen

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

What did everyone think of it? It was packed but I thought the teachers and notes were amazing

What teacher did ye have?

DancingQueen:)

theowen wrote: »

What teacher did ye have?

Cathy Sweeny for English, Corinne Gavenda for French and William Murphy for Business.

irish_man

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

Cathy Sweeny for English, Corinne Gavenda for French and William Murphy for Business.

I had Willie Murphy for business.
I liked him. It was good the way he called you sir!
and the female pronouns!

DancingQueen:)

irish_man wrote: »

I had Willie Murphy for business.
I liked him. It was good the way he called you sir!
and the female pronouns!

Were you there third class? I thought he was brillant My favourite out of the three. I got a bit confused with the whole female thing but got it after a while. I was in fits when he kept calling people weird!

irish_man

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

Were you there third class? I thought he was brillant My favourite out of the three. I got a bit confused with the whole female thing but got it after a while. I was in fits when he kept calling people weird!

I had him at Christmas 4th class
nice class to end the day.
He was very funny-the way he went on!

DancingQueen:)

irish_man wrote: »

I had him at Christmas 4th class
nice class to end the day.
He was very funny-the way he went on!

I usually don't like business but he definitely made it more enjoyable : )

unknown13

Dancing queen; I do English second class and I don't have the teacher you have.

unknown13

irish_man wrote: »

I had Willie Murphy for business.
I liked him. It was good the way he called you sir!
and the female pronouns!

Surprise surprise, read 21st Century written by him and I think if he refers to a person he always says the female version of the reference

DancingQueen:)

unknown13 wrote: »

Dancing queen; I do English second class and I don't have the teacher you have.

I walked into English late so maybe that isn't her name but it's the name that's on the notes I was given. I'm sure there was so many people they had to make more than one class though.

unknown13

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

I walked into English late so maybe that isn't her name but it's the name that's on the notes I was given. I'm sure there was so many people they had to make more than one class though.

Yeah, they probably had to make another english class. mine had about 60 in it.

DancingQueen:)

unknown13 wrote: »

Yeah, they probably had to make another english class. mine had about 60 in it.

Yeah same, there was only 4/5 spare seats. Fair play to the teachers for being able to handle so many, I know some of my own teachers couldn't do it.

ddef

I was in Cathy's english class for the 3rd period today. only around 15 in it, was mad.

unknown13

ddef wrote: »

I was in Cathy's english class for the 3rd period today. only around 15 in it, was mad.

Lucky, I remember doing maths last year [when I was in fifth year] on Saturday mornings and there was never more than 8 in the class. It was good but I ended dropping down to Foundation maths because I had too much difficulties with the subject.

DancingQueen:)

ddef wrote: »

I was in Cathy's english class for the 3rd period today. only around 15 in it, was mad.

Strange, I was in that room before and after you and both times it was full.

unknown13 wrote: »

Lucky, I remember doing maths last year [when I was in fifth year] on Saturday mornings and there was never more than 8 in the class. It was good but I ended dropping down to Foundation maths because I had too much difficulties with the subject.

I do maths every Saturday and at the start of the year there were a lot of people but now there's about 30.

unknown13

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

I do maths every Saturday and at the start of the year there were a lot of people but now there's about 30.

I take it is Higher level maths

DancingQueen:)

unknown13 wrote: »

I take it is Higher level maths

Yup, sticking with it because I dropped Irish. I like maths it's just hard because there's so much to remember. When my teacher found out I went to grinds she spent the whole class telling us that they don't work etc. but I think they're amazing.

3_BOoYA_X

ddef wrote: »

I was in Cathy's english class for the 3rd period today. only around 15 in it, was mad.

I had Kelly for honours english, 3rd period today and there was about 70ish in the class

spurious

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

Yeah same, there was only 4/5 spare seats. Fair play to the teachers for being able to handle so many, I know some of my own teachers couldn't do it.

Do you think things would be different for the teachers in your school if everyone in the class was paying to be there?

unknown13

3_BOoYA_X wrote: »

I had Kelly for honours english, 3rd period today and there was about 70ish in the class

I found Kelly very good

3_BOoYA_X

unknown13 wrote: »

I found Kelly very good

Yeah he was really good. Kinda **** the way he mainly focused on just short story essay cause im not planning on doing it. *But thats just bullsh1t* :rolleyes:

DancingQueen:)

spurious wrote: »

Do you think things would be different for the teachers in your school if everyone in the class was paying to be there?

Most definitely. I'm not giving out about my teachers, I think they are brillant but I think it takes a lot to be able to control a class especially if they are 70+ people in the room and its an hour and a half long. Although the two are completely different situations because people are paying to be in the Institute, they want to be there and do the best they can. That's not always the case.

unknown13

3_BOoYA_X wrote: »

Yeah he was really good. Kinda **** the way he mainly focused on just short story essay cause im not planning on doing it. *But thats just bullsh1t* :rolleyes:

He didnt do that with us today, we did paper one today.

3_BOoYA_X

unknown13 wrote: »

He didnt do that with us today, we did paper one today.

Yeah so did we... the short story option for the essay, and went through King Lear quotes at the start.

unknown13

We did the short story essay briefly, we did some of the other ones aswell.

theowen

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

Cathy Sweeny for English, Corinne Gavenda for French and William Murphy for Business.

Hilarious indeed:rolleyes:. He's awesome at slagging people too:p

DancingQueen:)

theowen wrote: »

Hilarious indeed:rolleyes:. He's awesome at slagging people too:p

Lol, he also randomnly shouts orders at people to explain what he has just said and I jump everytime! He's great at getting everyone interested in what he says and making things more realistic. I enjoy the class anyway, the time flies by.

kev9100

Susan Sulke's biology was brillaint even if it was a bit boring. Does anyone Corinne's French for the 4th class? It was painfully boring.

DancingQueen:)

kev9100 wrote: »

Does anyone Corinne's French for the 4th class? It was painfully boring.

Yeah I do Probably saw you there. I like what we were doing, the phrases and all that but an hour and a half is very long when you are going over the same thing again and again. I love listening to her speaking french but regretting that I picked it last class because all i want to do is go home!

kev9100

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

Yeah I do Probably saw you there. I like what we were doing, the phrases and all that but an hour and a half is very long when you are going over the same thing again and again. I love listening to her speaking french but regretting that I picked it last class because all i want to do is go home!

She's definitely a really good teacher but all that grammar stuff is just too much for me. Her advice on the exam technique was brilliant though.

DancingQueen:)

kev9100 wrote: »

She's definitely a really good teacher but all that grammar stuff is just too much for me. Her advice on the exam technique was brilliant though.

I had to sit near the front so i'd keep focused yeah definitely I hadn't heard a lot of it before and giving us hints about topics was great.It's definitely worth it.

**Timbuk2**

I hear the teachers in the IOE are excellent!

There are some excellent teachers in my school! Especially my Accounting and Geography teachers! My Geography teacher was offered a place to teach in the IOE (apparently), but she stayed in my school (thank God!).

I love teachers that are able to control even the worst of classes without shouting or giving punishments. Some teachers just have a natural ability to make everybody work and listen. I think that teachers (especially young ones) that come in and harp on about punishments, penalty sheets, signing homework journals, telling form teachers, ringing parents etc. aren't really cut out for controlling the class - but maybe it's a thing that comes with experience?

On a slightly unrelated note, did anybody go to the HL Maths Revision in TCD, with George Humphrey and Brendan Guildea? I went, and I thought it was excellent! George Humphrey is an excellent teacher, he makes you understand it really well, but still moving through the topics quickly.

DancingQueen:)

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

On a slightly unrelated note, did anybody go to the HL Maths Revision in TCD, with George Humphrey and Brendan Guildea? I went, and I thought it was excellent! George Humphrey is an excellent teacher, he makes you understand it really well, but still moving through the topics quickly.

I didn't go but a good few of my friends went and thought it was really good. My teacher is giving a lecture there on Vectors for Paper 2. She's absolutely amazing, you'll love her.
I've been lucky enough to get great teachers in my school but there's one or two that don't stick to the course. I think the revision course in the Institute is brillant because the teachers have marked the papers, they know what they're looking for and it's great to get things for a different point of view.