Californian Wanting To Be A Teacher

Chrezo244

Hi, I am currently a high school student in California. I recently decided that I really enjoy Ireland and education, so I decided I would love to be a teacher (ideally Primary) in Ireland. My question is, what do I need to do to exactly achieve this. Like, what requirements are there? Sorry if this all sounds stupid but help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Moonbeam

Do you want to train in Ireland?

draiochtanois

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

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No need for that.

Bells21

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I sincerely hope that you are not in the education sector if that's how you speak to people who are just looking for some help/advice.

spurious

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

No need for that.

Agreed and not the standard of post we expect from posters in this forum. Member warned. Níos mó drochbhéasach ná draíocht.

Chrezo244, welcome to boards and my apologies.

doolox

Competency in the Irish language would be the first big obvious barrier. Primary teachers in Ireland are required to be near native fluent in Irish which is one of our official languages, although only spoken natively by about 50,000 people out of a total population of nearly 5 million people.

Depending on your ability in languages and your connections with Ireland this could be a big barrier. Irish is not like most European languages in that it is not a romance language or a germanic language so you cannot transfer competency in one language to another like you can in ,say, Italian to Spanish etc.

The other big consideration is that obviously the History and Geography sections of the curriculum will reflect Irish rather than US realities. So these will have to learnt from scratch. Most of the teacher trainees will already have medium to high competencies in all these areas and be quite a few steps ahead of you in this regard.

I cannot advise you on the criteria regarding getting a study visa in Ireland but my wife knows that non-EU citizens studying in Ireland have to pay much larger fees than EU or Irish citizens and the cost of living is very high here.
As a nation Ireland is currently going through a housing crisis and rents are ridiculously high for what often amounts to substandard accommodation. Other basics are also dear by general US standards but probably not by California standards esp LA or SF.

The two colleges in Teacher training that I am aware of are St Patricks in Drumcondra, Dublin and Mary Immaculate College (MIC ) in Limerick. You could google them and get far more information re: courses.

The Teachers Council of Ireland is the governing body for National School teachers in Ireland and you can probably get more info on them by google.

Best of luck in what you decide to do.

GarIT

doolox wrote: »

The two colleges in Teacher training that I am aware of are St Patricks in Drumcondra, Dublin and Mary Immaculate College (MIC ) in Limerick. You could google them and get far more information re: courses.

Maynooth University too but you have to have done reasonably well in Leaving Cert Irish to be allowed in.

OP, you will have to do the last year of High (Secondary) School again in Ireland before you will be allowed into a Primary teaching course in Ireland. You can get into a secondary teaching course with a university degree in any two relevant subjects e.g. English, Maths, French, German, History, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Accounting, Business, Music, Art and a good few others.

The best option might be teaching in Northern Ireland where there wouldn't be an Irish Language requirement for primary teaching or Scotland where they are currently paying people to study teaching because there aren't enough teachers. You can potentially study in Scotland and then teach in Northern Ireland.

College fees for Non-EU citizens can be €8,000 - €20,000 per year in Ireland.

Chrezo244

Thanks so much that really helped. On the language part i was semi-fluent in Welsh, but then focused more on German (which i am currently studying) I did not know being fluent was a requirement, so thank you for that, that really helped. Yeh, im outskirts of Los Angeles and rent costs are super high here too.

MrsMoore

Are you in college? Or looking to study in Ireland to get the Irish Teaching certification?

I'm from the US, went to college in Texas, and looked into how to be a secondary teacher as I am not fluent in Irish. Let me know if you are still looking into this.