primary school teaching

im after graduating, i have a degree in philosophy
im considering becoming a primary school teacher
any idea how i would go about it and how much does a teacher get a year??

Riamfada

Mate of mine just spent 3 years in Pats . Came out and spends every day trying to control 20 little monsters. Its only been 6 weeks. Imagine that till your 65?

nesf

Grimes wrote:

Mate of mine just spent 3 years in Pats . Came out and spends every day trying to control 20 little monsters. Its only been 6 weeks. Imagine that till your 65?

Easier to deal with than 30 hormone crazed teenagers tbh.

Derek M

You can do primary teaching as a post grad in Dublin and Limerick, but it will cost you a few thousand. Its a one year full time course. Alternatively you could do the course in the England or Wales, your fees are paid and you get a grant of £6000 from the government. A lot of Irish people attend St Marys just outside London. You can check out courses on the gttr website.

Hope this helps.

finlma

I've been working in IT for 3 years and I'm applying to become a primary teacher. The course starts in Mary I in Limerick or one of the Dublin colleges at the end of Feb. Its 18 months long. You have to have a degree and have at least a C3 in honours Irish. There are 2 interviews to get in, 1 in Irish. I'm going to Irish classes at the moment.

If you really want to do it then go for it.

Riamfada

One word of warning. And im not trying to discurage you but there are alot of graduates coming out of St Pats yearly and there is a serious lack of vacancies for full time primary positions.

finlma

True if you're female. But if you're male like me there's a load of jobs - they are crying out for male teachers.

The Black Oil

Grad Dip in Pat's, getting into it isn't easy though or so I've heard. I know someone who has an INTO diary and it has pay info in it, I'll get back to you on that.

http://www.spd.dcu.ie/main/courses/grad_ed_info.shtml

GoneShootin

finlma wrote:

True if you're female. But if you're male like me there's a load of jobs - they are crying out for male teachers.

why would this be the case i wonder?

ionapaul

GoneShootin wrote:

why would this be the case i wonder?

Simply because the vast majority of teaching graduates over the past 20 years have been female, and the schools would like as many male teachers as possible to get the ratio of male:female teachers closer to 50:50. This is unacheivable at present, so much so that male graduates should easily get a job...my brother went to Mary I last year and had this experience.

thanks a lot everyone
il check out the english one i think, but would you get a job teaching in ireland with that?????

The Black Oil

A job here straight away with the PCGE/training from the UK...I don't think so, I think you've to take an Irish exam even if you have Irish say from your Leaving or whatever. You might be able to get a job and do the Irish whilst teaching. I'm not a 100% on that I'll find out...

Derek M

As regards the English course, you will have to complete an Irish exam in order to teach here. But there is no problem getting jobs(where available) after that.

As far as I know most people try to take Irish classes coming up to the exam as it can be quite hard. My girlfriend is currently doing the course in London, but she has a diploma in Irish from Uni so she might be in a slightly easier position when it comes to the exam.

On another note she also tried to get into one of the course in Ireland and didn't succeed and had to wait another year to apply for England so in my opinion if you do apply to Ireland it would be no harm in applying to England also....just to keep you options open.