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I taught for 575 hours last year. Was it a waste of a year for an increment?

  • 31-07-2017 10:42AM
    #1
    Tommo3434343
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I just received my statement of service from the Department. I requested it as I was hoping to move up the incremental scale. Last year was my first year qualified. I read that you need to have taught for 600 hours to move up the scale. I thought I had hit that number but turns out I was slightly below it. I had taught for 575 hours. It's quite disappointing to be so close. Does this mean that those hours last year were a total waste for an increment as I can't move up the scale? Or can I bring those hours forward at all?


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  • #2
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Tommo3434343 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I just received my statement of service from the Department. I requested it as I was hoping to move up the incremental scale. Last year was my first year qualified. I read that you need to have taught for 600 hours to move up the scale. I thought I had hit that number but turns out I was slightly below it. I had taught for 575 hours. It's quite disappointing to be so close. Does this mean that those hours last year were a total waste for an increment as I can't move up the scale? Or can I bring those hours forward at all?

    If you remain teaching in the same school the hours will be carried over. If not you begin again from 0.


  • #3
    Tommo3434343
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭Tommo3434343


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    If you remain teaching in the same school the hours will be carried over. If not you begin again from 0.

    I'm going to be in same school next year. So does that mean that when I work up another 25 hours after a week or two then I can go up an increment?


  • #4
    sitstill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭sitstill


    Tommo3434343 wrote: »
    I'm going to be in same school next year. So does that mean that when I work up another 25 hours after a week or two then I can go up an increment?

    Yeah that's it exactly


  • #5
    Tommo3434343
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭Tommo3434343


    sitstill wrote: »
    Yeah that's it exactly

    That's a relief! I thought I'd have to another full year to move up one increment. So after I hit 600, I can move up right away? And then move up again next year if I clock up another 600?

    Thanks for the help by the way folks.


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