Course details

designed to equip student-teachers with the range of knowledge and skill related to the profession of primary school teaching and its curriculum. The course structure enables student-teachers to make real connections between the theory and practice of education. This is achieved through the blend of methodology and foundation discipline courses on offer.

Entry Requirements

Applicants must have the following academic qualifications:

An honours Bachelor degree (major award at Level 8 on the National Framework of Qualifications) or a major award at Level 9 or a major award at Level 10 on the National Framework of Qualifications, and

one of the following sets of second level qualifications:

in the Leaving Certificate Examination from 1969 onwards: a grade C3 or above in Higher Level Irish; a grade D3 or above in Mathematics (Ordinary or Higher level); and a grade C3 or above in English (Ordinary level) or grade D3 or above in English (Higher level); or

in the Leaving Certificate Examination prior to 1969, Honours in Irish and passes in English and Mathematics; or

in the Northern Ireland GCSE and GCE A Level Examinations: a Grade C at GCE A Level Irish; a Grade C at GCSE Level in both English and English Literature or Grade B at GCSE Level in either; and a Grade D at GCSE Level in Additional Mathematics or a Grade C at GCSE Level in Mathematics.

Module

Year 1

  • PLACEMENT LEARNING
  • FOUNDATION STUDIES
  • PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE AND MATHEMATICAL COMPETENCY
  • IDENTITIES, REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AND RESEARC
  • CURRICULUM, METHODOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENT
  • LANGUAGE, LITERACY, MATHEMATICS AND SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY
  • FOUNDATIONS OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Year 2

  • PLACEMENT LEARNING
  • FOUNDATION STUDIES: PSYCHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF EDUCATION
  • FOUNDATION STUDIES: DICE AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
  • PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: CURRICULUM LEADERSHIP
  • PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: LITERACY
  • PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: NUMERACY & CURRIICULUM
  • CURRICULUM, METHODOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT
  • LANGUAGE, LITERACY, MATHEMATICS AND SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
  • RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Maynooth University

This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.

Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.

  • In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
  • Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.  
  • Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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