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Repeating Teaching Subjects

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    #32
    dory
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    Crazyteacher wrote: »
    Why are people including leaving cert results ? Your degree/teaching qual/experience/cps, refs are all that's required now. I know the odd school does request them but the majority don't. Unless you are asked no need to include them.

    It's standard on any application form I've ever filled out.


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    #33
    IvyTheTerrible
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    It seems bizarre to me that schools would worry about a candidate's LC result in a subject in which they have a good BA and MA. Having an A1 LC doesn't mean you "know" a syllabus well enough to teach it.


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    #34
    spurious
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    I didn't do either of my teaching subjects at Leaving Cert..


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    #35
    maynooth_rules
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    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    It seems bizarre to me that schools would worry about a candidate's LC result in a subject in which they have a good BA and MA. Having an A1 LC doesn't mean you "know" a syllabus well enough to teach it.

    The same logic could be used for Masters though. And example being a teacher that has a masters in History. Litter on that course will have been useful whatsoever to being a teacher.


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    #36
    IvyTheTerrible
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    maynooth_rules wrote: »
    The same logic could be used for Masters though. And example being a teacher that has a masters in History. Litter on that course will have been useful whatsoever to being a teacher.
    I'm sorry, I don't really follow you. Can you explain what you mean, please?


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    #37
    RealJohn
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    I'm going to guess that autocorrect made a mess of what maynooth was trying to say. I think the point was that, depending on the subject and aims of the masters degree, it might be completely irrelevant to its corresponding leaving cert subject so including the results on your CV could be of little practical benefit, in much the same way that your leaving cert results might not be of much practical benefit in terms of your subject knowledge.


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    #38
    Mardy Bum
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    maynooth_rules wrote: »
    The same logic could be used for Masters though. And example being a teacher that has a masters in History. Litter on that course will have been useful whatsoever to being a teacher.

    Subject knowledge is a very important part of being a teacher. An MA in a subject is infinitely more useful than a good leaving certificate result.


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    #39
    katydid
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    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    Subject knowledge is a very important part of being a teacher. An MA in a subject is infinitely more useful than a good leaving certificate result.

    MA's can be very specialised, and not very relevant to what you would be teaching in second level.


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    #40
    evolving_doors
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    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    Subject knowledge is a very important part of being a teacher. An MA in a subject is infinitely more useful than a good leaving certificate result.

    Although it wouldn't be beyond the bounds of assumptions that you might teach the way you were taught! If you obtained an A then chances are that some good practices might have rubbed off for your own teaching! (maybe!)


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    #41
    maynooth_rules
    Registered Users Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭maynooth_rules


    Yep auto correct made a dogs dinner of my post. Thanks Real John for essentially making sense of my drivel.


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