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Becoming a qualified teacher (but not for public sector use)

  • 03-11-2010 7:42pm
    #1
    Printer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭


    Hi All

    I have a first class honours degree in International Business with French and Spanish. I currently co-own a FETAC registered education and training provider and I deliver lots of Spanish and French courses to adults. I have worked in various language schools all over the world and have over 1500 hours of full time sport instruction too. I also taught French, German and Spanish in a secondary school in Ireland for a year as a substitute.

    Anyway, I really want to become a qualified Language Teacher for both French and Spanish. Obviously the quickest route to this is by doing the PGDE (H.Dip) but I don't think i would be able to study full time so my question is what courses (masters for examples) are out there that can be done part time that will make me a "qualified language teacher" at the end of it.

    Note that I do not want to become a primary or secondary teacher (maybe in the future but not now) but want to be qualified in the job I am currently engaged in.

    Any help or suggestions would be great, thanks.


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  • #2
    roe_cat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭roe_cat


    If you're not interested in doing a pgde I'd expect your best option would be whatever the equivalent of TEFL is in your languages. Not sure how regulated these qualifications are in other languages - for French I'd check with the Alliance Francaise as to what qualification is needed to teach DELF/DALF, for Spanish I think it's the Cervantes Institute? But - qualifications like this are usually aimed at native speakers (and I doubt that you could do them here) so even if you're a very competent teacher it could still be quite a challenge - and if your plan is to stay in Ireland I'm not sure if it's really of any advantage - You might well learn something from doing the course but I don't think these qualifications are well known enough in Ireland to make much difference.
    There may well be other options and I don't really know much about FETAC but I think foreign language schools in Ireland are pretty much unregulated and therefore there is no catch-all qualification


  • #3
    Printer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭Printer


    Hey

    Thanks for the info. I was looking more at the option of a Masters in Languages maybe, that would also qualify you as a teacher for third level uses. There are a few out there but I'm just looking to try and get some more info on it in general.


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