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Hours in a newly-established school

  • 06-06-2014 7:54pm
    #1
    gaiscioch
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    Looking at teaching vacancies I'm left wondering how a new school can succeed in attracting teachers in full-time employment when they can only offer 3 or 4 hours per week (presumably 1st year classes)? Does the Department give them some leniency or advantage in recognition of the problems they would have attracting people - e.g. teachers will actually get paid for more than the 3/4 hours they teach in such new schools?


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  • #2
    sitstill
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    gaiscioch wrote: »
    Looking at teaching vacancies I'm left wondering how a new school can succeed in attracting teachers in full-time employment when they can only offer 3 or 4 hours per week (presumably 1st year classes)? Does the Department give them some leniency or advantage in recognition of the problems they would have attracting people - e.g. teachers will actually get paid for more than the 3/4 hours they teach in such new schools?


    Have wondered this myself looking at some of the ads. It seems to be 2/3 hours per subject so even if a teacher had 2 subjects it's only max 6 hours and a fixed term contract at that. How can these schools tempt experienced people to leave full time permanent posts for this?


  • #3
    evolving_doors
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    This is a colleagues experience of 2 different schools that opened up in her area...

    1. Jobs advertised initially as rpt on low enough hours.
    2. Usually with VERY specific subject requirements. This is the giveaway...

    The jobs were essentially spoken for and the 'successful candidates' were also on part time hours in an adjacent school so that they worked between the 2 schools until the hours in the new school increased.

    Then again it shouldn't put anyone off applying anyway as it's never a guarantee that everything will go to plan.


  • #4
    gaiscioch
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    Armelodie wrote: »
    This is a colleagues experience of 2 different schools that opened up in her area...

    1. Jobs advertised initially as rpt on low enough hours.
    2. Usually with VERY specific subject requirements. This is the giveaway...

    The jobs were essentially spoken for and the 'successful candidates' were also on part time hours in an adjacent school so that they worked between the 2 schools until the hours in the new school increased.

    Then again it shouldn't put anyone off applying anyway as it's never a guarantee that everything will go to plan.

    Interesting and very plausible - the principal in my own, albeit very well established school liaises with another local principal so that in terms of timetable the same teacher can move between both schools.

    However, I wonder would the same apply to Irish-medium gaelcholáistí -at least two of which are opening in Dublin this September- as there wouldn't be the same size (if at all) teacher pool in the area to draw from. They are opening at opposite ends of the county (Baile Brigín & Ráth Fearnáin). Most of the jobs were advertised for a single subject, and the application said even if you're qualified to teach more than one subject, only apply for one.


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