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Teacher Training Query

  • 10-08-2010 9:55pm
    #1
    jcollings2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hey

    Im about to start the 4th year (of a 4 year course) in mathematics and want to apply to do the PGDE for post-primary teaching to teach mathematics next term.

    Im wondering if there is anyone that have done this course, if they could give me some reflection on their experience of the course and also on their experience teaching in a school.

    Also, as I mentioned, I will be looking to teach mathematics. However, the maths degree course I am currently on brushed over leaving cert mathematics in year 1 and then promptly moved onto other areas and therefore at this stage now I have found myself sortof 'lost' with leaving certificate (particularly higher level) maths.
    I am wondering if when your doing your teaching practice, are you thrown in at the deep end and given, say, 5th year higher level leaving cert maths to do or will they most likely take the logical introductory approach and start you off teaching, say, 1st year/2nd year classes of ordinary (/or/and possibly) higher level maths.

    One final question which I have always wanted to know (and this comes from watching 'the simpsons'..... do maths teachers have 'teacher editions' of the books they use in class which give them the solutions to the problems they go through or are maths teachers generally thought to be able to just look at a problem and solve it instantly without any help from a teachers edition book? Why I ask is that I am wondering if when I (if I) get to teach in a school (doing my teaching practice) next year, will I, most likely, be given a teachers edition maths book to 'assist' me in teaching?

    I know thats alot to read/reply to, so a VERY BIG THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to read/reply to it.

    JC


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