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Move from Primary to Secondary Teaching

  • 03-01-2011 12:31am
    #1
    UnLuckyAgain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭


    I've recently decided to go for primary school teaching when I finish my undergraduate degree in the next few months. I do feel that primary is the career for me at present, and that I would both enjoy and do well as a primary teacher.

    However, I have the feeling that in later years I'll want to change to secondary teaching as I have a real passion for one of my subjects (English) and have always been attracted to secondary teaching as a career!

    Has anyone any experience of changing from primary teaching to secondary teaching? Did you have to face any unforeseen obstacles, or did employers see any value in your previous primary teaching career?


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  • #2
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    Well you could do a 1yr postgrad in Primary teaching in Hibernia and then do the Postgraduate Diploma in Education in either UCD,UCC,NUIM,TCD,NUIG. The two of them will cost you €16,000 in total and you will find it tough to find work in either due to oversupply of teachers in both sectors.

    Do you have any other subject than English in your B.A.? It is really common so that means you will have a lot of competition for jobs (also means there are more jobs as it is a mandatory subject). I am doing the PGDE in UCD now and about 80 out of the 220 are doing English and I would say the numbers are similar in the other colleges.


  • #3
    UnLuckyAgain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭UnLuckyAgain


    Yes my plan is to do the H.Dip in either the Dublin colleges or Hibernia, and to pursue primary teaching for a few years. Then I was planning on doing the PGDE and moving to secondary teaching if i'm that way inclined.

    My subjects are English and Economics which seems to be an unusual mix (whether or not that's a good thing is yet to be seen).


  • #4
    kiwikid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭kiwikid


    if i were you i would seriously consider hopping over the pond after the hibernia and availing of the PGCE in English or whatever which i think you can do online through open university while you work as the primary teacher. There is plenty of work there at the moment.


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