Correcting the leaving cert

grantyrs10

I'm just wondering here what are the necessary qualifications to be able to correct leaving cert or junior cert papers? do you have to be a secondary school teacher in the subject ?
Could you correct let's say as a primary school teacher Irish papers if you took Irish as your main subject to degree level ?
Any help appreciated thanks in advance:D:D:D

Jolly Red Giant

grantyrs10 wrote: »

I'm just wondering here what are the necessary qualifications to be able to correct leaving cert or junior cert papers? do you have to be a secondary school teacher in the subject ?

Pretty much yes - teachers will have experience of the syllabus. It's a tough job, long hours every day for a month - and most teachers do it for the experience, to get a better understanding of their subject and what is required by the examiners (financially it doesn't pay much).

grantyrs10 wrote: »

Could you correct let's say as a primary school teacher Irish papers if you took Irish as your main subject to degree level ?

Don't know for definite - possibly depends on what kind of degree you did - the Bachelor of Education for primary teaching is not the same as graduating with a level 8 degree and doing the h-dip or the post graduate diploma for primary teaching.

validusername1

Well I'd imagine if you're not a secondary school teacher, you're not going to know the JC/LC course, so you wouldn't have much knowledge to be able to do the corrections.. but that's just what I think