Australian Graduate Teacher looking to work in Ireland

nicoladoc87

Hello Everyone,
Long time fan, first time poster. My partner and I are moving back to Ireland in December and we have hit a bit of a snag. My partner is a recent Graduate of Msc Education here in Australia (undergrad: BSc Architecture) with "provisional" Teaching Registration. This gives her full work rights as a teacher in Australia, but is not accepted by the Irish Teaching Council. Does anyone know of any work arounds? I can't see a solution other than a) she gives up her ability to work as a teacher in Ireland or b) she stays in Australia for 4/5 months to get enough teaching practice to satisfy "full registration".
Your help would be appreciated!

solerina

Your partner would need to have a degree in at least one teaching subject, I am obviously not sure what modules were included in her undergrad but we don't have architecture as a leaving cert subject, what exactly would she be intending to teach ?
The teaching council here are very difficult to deal with, she would need to check what exactly she needs to be registered for a particular subject and make up any short falls before leaving Australia or she could be waiting a long time before getting registered here.

implausible

It's all about the credits, OP. Your partner needs to have enough credits in her undergraduate degree to teach a LC subject, I'd be thinking DCG (Design and Communication Graphics) would be a possibility?

Submitting her undergraduate modules and results to the Teaching Council will allow them to make an assessment of what credits she needs to make up in order to make her qualification a 'teachable' one. I've heard of people making up these credits through Open University or there may be options elsewhere. Otherwise, it's back to the drawing board (sorry!) with an alternative degree or profession.

TheDriver

I would think the most they could teach is DCG and Tech Grap which is sown up within the woodwork and metalwork teachers. Teaching Council is the only way they will get recognised.

muttnjeff

if the council have indicated that your partner will be fully recognised with 4/5 months more experience in OZ my advice would be to do just that. better to be fully registered before coming here. Teaching,especially second level is hard to come by. teaching council reg. is essential and no school will give your partner the chance to the shortfall in her expperience without it.=catch 22. She would be well advised to hold off on the move or follow you in May/june

man_no_plan

TheDriver wrote: »

I would think the most they could teach is DCG and Tech Grap which is sown up within the woodwork and metalwork teachers. Teaching Council is the only way they will get recognised.

Possibly construction rather than DCG, geometry is very different to drawing plans and designing buildings.

Might be worth contacting UL who may be able to exempt your partner from some aspects of their technology education masters? May be possible to make up some modules while tgere

evolving_doors

man_no_plan wrote: »

Possibly construction rather than DCG, geometry is very different to drawing plans and designing buildings.

Might be worth contacting UL who may be able to exempt your partner from some aspects of their technology education masters? May be possible to make up some modules while tgere

Do they still do Shadow Projections, Isometric Views and road excavation thing (cut and fill!) in DCG (I havn't looked at an exam paper in over 20 years :pac::pac::pac:)

Maybe the OP might be just as well to do the 4years in UL or Letterfrack(He might get exempted from some courses!). Anytime I've checked on educationposts.ie there seems to be a little more demand for these subjects than others...

Only real definitive answer is from the Teaching Council though once they assess the OP's Husband's degree.

man_no_plan

Gebgbegb wrote: »

Do they still do Shadow Projections, Isometric Views and road excavation thing (cut and fill!) in DCG (I havn't looked at an exam paper in over 20 years :pac::pac::pac:)

Maybe the OP might be just as well to do the 4years in UL or Letterfrack(He might get exempted from some courses!). Anytime I've checked on educationposts.ie there seems to be a little more demand for these subjects than others...

Only real definitive answer is from the Teaching Council though once they assess the OP's Husband's degree.

Shadow and area conversions are gone but alas everything else is still there rammed into one paper rather than two and with a 40% project.

Less depth more breadth, new JC anyone? And yet we're still alive!!

Also the OP's partner is female as far as I can see from the first post?

nicoladoc87

Thanks everyone for your advice! I spoke with the Teaching Council and thankfully there is a solution - getting registered as a Higher Education teacher will allow her to work as a secondary school teacher. We will give that a go and hopefully that solves the problem for now!