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In preparation for PGDE 2011

  • 07-04-2010 8:50pm
    #1
    wanttoteach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭


    Hi all,

    I know the offers for Sept. entry just came out this week, but I didn't apply this year. I am currently working and plan to remain in this job until Sept 2011 when I hope to start the PGDE. I have a 2.1 and a masters and I know that teaching experience will not be taken into account next year so I think I am in with a good chance of getting in. My first choice will be Maynooth. I have no teaching experience really...just two weeks supervising (not teaching).

    I'd like to know if there is any preparation work I can begin doing before starting. I know it's more than a year away, but can you suggest anything I can do to make the course easier or to make my job prospects better? Perhaps a list of reccommended text for Maynooth? I understand that it will be next to impossible to get any paid teaching experience, but would consider observing classes. Has anyone done this and if so for how long? Do you just approach the principal?

    My subject is Biology (and JS Science).

    Thank you :)


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  • #2
    dukedalton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭dukedalton


    I did the PGDE at NUIM in 2008/9. The course hit me like a freight train- I can safely say it was the least enjoyable, least rewarding and most stressful of my time at NUIM- but unlike the other courses I did, it wasn't top heavy with reading requirements (maybe that's why I didn't enjoy it!). Most of the work will require you to critically evaluate your own performance, and isn't textbook reliant like a primary degree is. Off the top of my head there are a few books I did refer to more than once- Learning to teach in a secondary school, by Susan Capel et al; Essential Teaching Skills by Chris Kyriacou; The Developing Child by Helen Bee.


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