Hibernia primary teaching course

Curious x

Hi everybody...
Im starting the masters for primary teaching in march with hibernia...
To anybody currently doing it... is it tough?
Are there many assignments/exams?
Did you find it hard to source a school for tp?
Any info appreciated..
Thanks

D4RK ONION

I feel like maybe this is information you should have researched before you applied for the course?!

Anyway, if it's anything like the other postgrads, it's probably hell on earth. Good luck with it.

Curious x

D4RK ONION wrote: »

I feel like maybe this is information you should have researched before you applied for the course?!

Anyway, if it's anything like the other postgrads, it's probably hell on earth. Good luck with it.

Thanks for the vote of confidence!
I have no doubt that its achievable, however just a bit curious!
Sorry for whatever went wrong in your studies!

karkar athlete

Hi Curious x,

I started the Masters in Primary Education in September with Hibernia.

Currently I found I have lost motivation to do the online sessions and have got a bit behind. You are given 2-3 online sessions a week to study in your own time and complete some tasks, blogs, journals etc with them. You also have 1 or 2 online webinars in the evenings a week aswell. However I wouldn't consider it a part time course as a few people I know who were working with the course have subsequently left their jobs!

In general considering what I have done in my undergrad (Arts!) it's not that bad. You're given the release dates and submission dates for the assignments for the first year at the start of the course and they are pretty well spaced out. However the word counts are pretty limited!

On the plus side you only have one written exam - Gaeilge. Our cohort have that exam this August and then an Irish oral, provisionally August 2016 and the rest is assignments.

As for school placement it is hard for those starting in September but I think it is generally easier for the March/April cohort students as I believe you won't have your first school placement until March 2016 and once you find that placement before the summer you should not have any problems. My cohort had a few problems as many schools fill their teaching practice students before the previous school year's summer holidays and we were given notice in the middle of September for the following May!

Any other questions feel free to ask!

heldel00

Sorry to hijack thread. Just curious here.
Is it a masters in primary ed with Hibernia? I'm a qualified primary teacher myself and have an interest in doing a masters in the near future.
Ye are confusing me though when you talk about placement, Gaeilge orals etc? I'd have thought this was only necessary for those who want to qualify with B.Ed first and then do further studies towards a masters?

D4RK ONION

heldel00 wrote: »

Sorry to hijack thread. Just curious here.
Is it a masters in primary ed with Hibernia? I'm a qualified primary teacher myself and have an interest in doing a masters in the near future.
Ye are confusing me though when you talk about placement, Gaeilge orals etc? I'd have thought this was only necessary for those who want to qualify with B.Ed first and then do further studies towards a masters?

I was always under the assumption that it's a post grad? I could be totally wrong.

spurious

PLEASE have a realistic idea of the jobs situation before undertaking any expensive courses.

Curious x

heldel00 wrote: »

Sorry to hijack thread. Just curious here.
Is it a masters in primary ed with Hibernia? I'm a qualified primary teacher myself and have an interest in doing a masters in the near future.
Ye are confusing me though when you talk about placement, Gaeilge orals etc? I'd have thought this was only necessary for those who want to qualify with B.Ed first and then do further studies towards a masters?

Hi ... it was a hdip over 18 months but they have now changed it to a masters over 2 years.

Curious x

karkar athlete wrote: »

Hi Curious x,

I started the Masters in Primary Education in September with Hibernia.

Currently I found I have lost motivation to do the online sessions and have got a bit behind. You are given 2-3 online sessions a week to study in your own time and complete some tasks, blogs, journals etc with them. You also have 1 or 2 online webinars in the evenings a week aswell. However I wouldn't consider it a part time course as a few people I know who were working with the course have subsequently left their jobs!

In general considering what I have done in my undergrad (Arts!) it's not that bad. You're given the release dates and submission dates for the assignments for the first year at the start of the course and they are pretty well spaced out. However the word counts are pretty limited!

On the plus side you only have one written exam - Gaeilge. Our cohort have that exam this August and then an Irish oral, provisionally August 2016 and the rest is assignments.

As for school placement it is hard for those starting in September but I think it is generally easier for the March/April cohort students as I believe you won't have your first school placement until March 2016 and once you find that placement before the summer you should not have any problems. My cohort had a few problems as many schools fill their teaching practice students before the previous school year's summer holidays and we were given notice in the middle of September for the following May!

Any other questions feel free to ask!

Thanks for the info.... best of luck with your studies looking forward to starting

ShamrockGirl

D4RK ONION wrote: »

I was always under the assumption that it's a post grad? I could be totally wrong.

Yes its still a postgrad programme but was a Level 8 on the National Qualifications Framework but is now Masters level 9 on the NQF

karkar athlete

heldel00 wrote: »

Sorry to hijack thread. Just curious here.
Is it a masters in primary ed with Hibernia? I'm a qualified primary teacher myself and have an interest in doing a masters in the near future.
Ye are confusing me though when you talk about placement, Gaeilge orals etc? I'd have thought this was only necessary for those who want to qualify with B.Ed first and then do further studies towards a masters?

Hi heldel00,

It is a Professional Masters in Education (primary) it replaces the former 18 month Graduate Diploma in Primary Education. This is what you would be looking for: http://www.spd.dcu.ie/site/prospective_students/m_ed.shtml

BW226

Hi, I have my interview next week for the PME. I was wondering if anyone could offer any advise for the English or Irish parts?....Starting to get nervous now.

Curious x

BW226 wrote: »

Hi, I have my interview next week for the PME. I was wondering if anyone could offer any advise for the English or Irish parts?....Starting to get nervous now.

Hi...
I was interviewed by two ppl, a man and a woman... the asked me which i would prefer to do first irish or eng. I choose eng cause i was nervous and thought it might make me feel abit more comfortable.
Just know your tenses for irish... it was kind of a flowing convo, i cant remember everything but here are some questions...
Irish
How did you get to the interview?
Do u do any irish classes at present?
What will you do after the interview?
At the end he also asked me if i had anything prepared i would like to speak about, i said no thankyou cause i was quite nervous and just wanted it to be over at the time

eng
what teacher inspired me and why?
What you would do if u had a lesson planned and your ict failed?
What would you do if you were having problems with a co-worker.

thats all i can really remember... its handy enough to be honest.. the irish guy is a bit hard to understand but dont worry to much about that...
best of luck ☺

Theres also loads of threads on this with other sample questions if you have a search

BW226

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! So nervous, but fingers crossed it goes ok!! Thanks again

JkavanaghJ

Hi folks, I'm applying for both. 10 yrs out of school and my conversational Irish is practically non existent. I would love to practice some interview questions.... Anyone got any hints, tips, advice? Anyone who sat the interview and is feeling like they would share their experience? I've searched boards.ie up and down and it see,s most are fairly tight lipped....

Please help if you can.

Thanks so much in advance.
-J

flexi1983

Sorry I'm not sure how to start my own thread so I joined this one. Hey guys I'm hoping to do the Hibernia course starting with the September intake. Has anyone got married during the course and if so at what point. I'm trying to set a date but Hibernia are not great with giving out definite information.

Would love some advice, thanks.