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Politics and Society

  • 03-10-2014 2:45pm
    #1
    maynooth_rules
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    Im very excited by the prospect of this subject becoming a LC subject soon. Im just wondering, if anyone could tell me how to go about becoming Teaching Council registered in the subject? Want to add another subject to my CV as the two I have simply don't come together enough in jobs.


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  • #2
    shenanagans
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    you need 60 credits in the subject to teach it.


  • #3
    gaiscioch
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    maynooth_rules wrote: »
    Im very excited by the prospect of this subject becoming a LC subject soon. Im just wondering, if anyone could tell me how to go about becoming Teaching Council registered in the subject? Want to add another subject to my CV as the two I have simply don't come together enough in jobs.

    So were loads of people when I did the dip years ago, I regret to say. They crammed into the CSPE module where UCD people told them that it was going to become a LC subject. All the paying dip students had one thing in common: teaching as a career was an afterthought, something proven by their degrees in non-teaching subjects like sociology, archaeology, psychology, politics and God knows what else. So they crammed into the CSPE module. I had one of the above subjects but I had the good sense to realise that it was a con job played to perfection by money-hungry UCD (and no doubt the other teacher training colleges). If I recall at the time, CSPE was one of the only subjects (art being another) where you didn't need, say, a Politics degree, but you did need to have the DIP qualification in the teacher methodology for the CSPE. They said that would also qualify you to teach Politics and Society if it ever became a LC subject.

    In terms of job security you would be far, far, far smarter to get 60 credits in a real subject - e.g. Irish, Maths etc - rather than this. As a principal said to me: "just where are they going to fit that subject on the timetable?"


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