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How to get a teaching job in non mainstream education

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  • 01-07-2018 3:13pm
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    emilymemily
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    Im a qualified art teacher and would love to teach non mainstream education such as working in hospitals/childrens hospitals/working with adult stroke and brain injury victims, special needs centers and schools, psychiatric hospitals etc.
    How could I move into this area of employment?


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    spurious
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    Sometimes rather than being hired by the particular centre, teachers in non mainstream centres are supplied by the local ETB. It might be worth talking to them.


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    r93kaey5p2izun
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    They advertise on edposts like most schools or as spurious says, teachers come from the ETB. There have been several ads recently for these type of positions. The ones I saw for the children's hospital wanted primary teachers but Linn Dara school in Cherry Orchard advertises regularly enough for second level.


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    byhookorbycrook
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    The childrens' hospitals look for qualified primary teachers, so unlikely you'd get a job in them. There are only a few such jobs in the country in any case.
    Special education schools also tend to hire only qualified teachers, so you'd be limited to art and hence have less chance of work too.


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    emilymemily
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    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    The childrens' hospitals look for qualified primary teachers, so unlikely you'd get a job in them. There are only a few such jobs in the country in any case.
    Special education schools also tend to hire only qualified teachers, so you'd be limited to art and hence have less chance of work too.

    I am a 'qualified' teacher. Im aware that having art limits me but that goes for any specific subject. There are special needs centres and schools that higher full time art teachers, more so than main stream schools. If anything im better off in those areas than mainstream.


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    Millem
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    Gosh I would of thought they hired Art teachers? I know they hire home ec teachers but maybe not full time?
    For special schools it’s the primary school hours and calander.

    Also some fee paying junior/primary schools hire Art teachers to do art instead of the primary teacher. Don’t know if that would interest you or not?


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