Course details

The PME course is designed to prepare high quality teachers for today’s second level schools. Students undertake a study of the principles of teaching and learning, develop practical teaching skills, and engage in a supervised teaching placement in at least two second-level schools. Students normally take disciplinary courses in the teaching of two curricular subjects.

The course normally commences in late August and lectures and school placement end in May. Examination results are usually available in late June.

Entry Requirements

Applicants must hold a degree which will allow for registration as a post-primary teacher. Registration is managed by the Teaching Council and applicants should check the regulations to ensure that they hold a suitable degree in advance of making an application.

Module

Year 1

  • TEACHING, LEARNING, ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM.
  • TEACHER AS CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER  " THE FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL THINKING 1
  • SCHOOL PLACEMENT 1
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING BIOLOGY WITH JUNIOR SCIENCE
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING CHEMISTRY WITH JUNIOR SCIENCE
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING PHYSICS WITH JUNIOR SCIENCE
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING JUNIOR SCIENCE
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING ACCOUNTING WITH BUSINESS STUDIES
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING BUSINESS WITH BUSINESS STUDIES
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING ECONOMICS WITH BUSINESS STUDIES
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING BUSINESS STUDIES
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING CIVIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING CLASSICAL STUDIES
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING GAEILGE (MÚINEADH AGUS FOGHLAIM GAEILGE)
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING GEOGRAPHY
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING HISTORY
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING MATHEMATICS
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING MODERN LANGUAGE (FRENCH)
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING MODERN LANGUAGE (GERMAN)
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING MODERN LANGUAGE (SPANISH)
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING MODERN LANGUAGE (OTHER)
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING MUSIC
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING (OTHER)
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING RELIGIOUS STUDIES
  • TEACHING AND LEARNING SOCIAL, PERSONAL AND HEALTH 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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