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Qualifications for subbing?

  • 04-07-2014 4:00pm
    #1
    milhous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭


    I have just finished an honours degree in chemistry (math and chemistry is probably what I'd be hoping to teach). I was thinking about teaching (post primary) but I've heard quite a few not so pleasant stories! I would like to see if it is actually as bad as the teachers I've been talking to make it out to be before I would go down the teaching path. Would I be able to do some subbing or supervising?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Moody_mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭Moody_mona


    Because you're not qualified you wouldn't, or at least shouldn't, be able to sub, since you're not registered with Teaching Council. You could try getting in touch with schools to see if you could shadow and see what things are like in different schools. You may need garda vetting to do this, the school will tell you.

    Also, you'll need to check the Teaching Council list of recognised degrees to see if your degree does actually qualify you to teach Chemistry and Maths, it all depends on the modules studied.

    Plenty of stories about experiences here, have a trawl through the forum :)


  • #3
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    If you are not a qualified teacher , you should not be subbing as there are hundreds of fully qualified teachers unemployed. If you wanted to do some observation, you could approach a local school.


  • #4
    milhous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭milhous


    I looked at their website and my degree seems to fit the criteria. I got Garda vetting completed before as I volunteered to do a bit of science after school with primary school kids.

    If there are that many unemployed teachers I'm not sure if it's the best career path, I thought it wasn't bad as I know of a few teachers who got work pretty much straight away. I suppose shadowing is the way forward. I was hoping I could take the year to decide and get a bit of money to keep me going at the same time. ah well. I'll slog away in a lab for a while instead and re-visit the idea when I have more money behind me maybe.

    Thanks for your help.


  • #5
    Moody_mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭Moody_mona


    A lot of unemployed teachers. A lot of teachers subbing and not getting paid during the summer (although you do get holiday pay built in to your daily rate). A lot of teachers on contracts for 5, 6, 7 hours, working and earning less than a third of what whole time teachers make. Conditions aren't great, with the official hours extra and substitution we are obliged to do for free.

    Your PME will take another two years and cost the guts of ten grand. Another thing you'll need to consider.

    I love teaching, and to be honest if I had to do it all over again I'd still choose this route. But I wouldn't be actively encouraging any of my students into it.


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