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Considering PME - additional subjects?

  • 16-07-2018 9:01pm
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    Polka_Dot
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    Sorry to start another thread on this, but I've tried searching the forum and looking at the Teaching Council website and I'm still confused!

    I'm considering doing the PME next year (2019) and I'd like some advice about what I would/would not be registered to teach upon completion. My undergraduate degree is in natural sciences with a biology specialisation, and I am certain that I would be able to register to teach biology with this. However, it is my understanding that I would not be able to register to teach Junior Cert science with this degree as I have no credits in physics. Other than biology, I have 20 ECTS of chemistry and 40 of maths. Obviously only having one subject would be a disadvantage, so I was wondering if in the meantime I could complete any Open University modules to help build up credits?

    What's also confusing me is that I had a look at the FAQs on the Teaching Council website and under the question "I am already registered as a Post-primary teacher but wish to know how to go about qualifying to teach an additional curricular subject?" it says the following:
    As a registered post-primary teacher, you have met the registration requirement to hold qualifications which enable you to teach at least one post-primary curricular subject. Deployment within schools to teach all subjects is a matter for individual school authorities. It is not a registration requirement to be recognised for additional subjects.

    If however, you wish to have an additional curricular subject recorded on the Register of Teachers you must demonstrate that you have completed a course of study at level 8 and/or level 9 on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) that meets the criteria for the subject. A subject specific methodology must also be completed for curricular subjects where it has been specified as a requirement. Please click here to view the curricular subject requirements.

    This, to me, reads that it is not necessary to be registered to teach an additional subject if you are already registered for one subject and it is up to the school to decide what you can teach, but I may be misinterpreting.


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    evolving_doors
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    Polka_Dot wrote: »
    Sorry to start another thread on this, but I've tried searching the forum and looking at the Teaching Council website and I'm still confused!

    I'm considering doing the PME next year (2019) and I'd like some advice about what I would/would not be registered to teach upon completion. My undergraduate degree is in natural sciences with a biology specialisation, and I am certain that I would be able to register to teach biology with this. However, it is my understanding that I would not be able to register to teach Junior Cert science with this degree as I have no credits in physics. Other than biology, I have 20 ECTS of chemistry and 40 of maths. Obviously only having one subject would be a disadvantage, so I was wondering if in the meantime I could complete any Open University modules to help build up credits?

    What's also confusing me is that I had a look at the FAQs on the Teaching Council website and under the question "I am already registered as a Post-primary teacher but wish to know how to go about qualifying to teach an additional curricular subject?" it says the following:



    This, to me, reads that it is not necessary to be registered to teach an additional subject if you are already registered for one subject and it is up to the school to decide what you can teach, but I may be misinterpreting.

    That's correct.
    Although at the very least you'd want to have done that second subject as part of the PME so that your aware of subject specific teaching methods and subject content.


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