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Teaching ECDL

  • 29-01-2017 08:10PM
    #1
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭


    I was just wondering is there any actual qualification for teaching ECDL to Secondary School students?
    I'm a qualified Secondary School teacher already. Its something I would be interested in pursuing if it exists.
    Its quite hard to find information online.
    I completed the ECDL course myself in TY in 2009.

    Thanks a million.


Comments

  • #2
    Crazyteacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Crazyteacher


    You could contact the Irish computer society to ask if they wtill run the ecdl trainer Diploma for teachers. JEB was another one that was on the go . Otherwise schools normally just ask any teacher with a gap on the timetable to take IT classes.


  • #3
    mtoutlemonde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭mtoutlemonde


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    I was just wondering is there any actual qualification for teaching ECDL to Secondary School students?
    I'm a qualified Secondary School teacher already. Its something I would be interested in pursuing if it exists.
    Its quite hard to find information online.
    I completed the ECDL course myself in TY in 2009.

    Thanks a million.

    Your school has to be an accredited ECDL centre and you have to attend tester training one day every five years at a cost of €100 (could be more now). I have a tester certificate that I have never used :) I wouldn't waste my time to be honest. ECDL is out dated and expensive and has been dropped by a lot of schools in favour of FETAC qualifications which are not as expensive and have more standing on a CV.


  • #4
    mtoutlemonde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭mtoutlemonde


    Crazyteacher wrote: »
    You could contact the Irish computer society to ask if they wtill run the ecdl trainer Diploma for teachers. JEB was another one that was on the go . Otherwise schools normally just ask any teacher with a gap on the timetable to take IT classes.

    I could be wrong but I think JEB is not run anymore - I think it was in another thread about IT a few months ago.


  • #5
    Crazyteacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Crazyteacher


    It's still being advertised by some training places.

    Microsoft office specialist MOS is more popular than ecdl in schools these days. Think you would have to basic MOS , then advanced MOS, and then work your way up MOS Master.


  • #6
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Thanks very much for the replies.
    I was asked during interviews last year if I had a qualification to teach ECDL so I thought it was something worth doing.
    I should probably think again going by the responses!
    Thanks a million for the info.


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  • #7
    Crazyteacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Crazyteacher


    I had a school looking to offer me a job on the condition they see my ECDL cert a few years back. I asked did they want a copy of my degree/master's/teaching diploma too but was told they just wanted the ECDL:) you never know what's going on in their heads!


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