Irish for Primary Teaching

tascher rose

Hey I have an honour (C3) in Irish at leaving cert level. Would like to do primary but feel my conversational Irish and grammar need alot of improvement. Any tips how this could be achieved. Was looking at 5th and 6th class Irish books today and found some of it difficult!!

Toto Wolfcastle

I have moved your post to its own thread as the thread you posted in is 3 years old.

gaeilgegrinds

Conversational Irish and written grammar tend to differ but I would suggest working on conversational and it'll really help you. Talk in Irish pubs, loads of people love that, join a conversational group and perhaps watch as much TG4 as you can. Is it for your oral for the postgrad?

peanuthead

I'm probably totally wrong but is fluent/near fluent Irish still a requirement for primary teaching? I didn't think it was

dory

peanuthead wrote: »

I'm probably totally wrong but is fluent/near fluent Irish still a requirement for primary teaching? I didn't think it was

Well if you want to go into the postgrad you'll need to have about a 10 minute conversation in Irish. And with 1200 people expected to apply for Pats this year they've no reason in the world to accept someone who isn't very good.

However if it's the undergrad you're after then you just need a C3 in the Leaving. You can get that and be no where near fluent.

Farolina81

If it's the Postgrad you're doing, I did it in Mary I. At the time it was 10 years since my Leaving Cert and I hadn't used Irish at all since then. Listening to the radio can be daunting at first (it was for me, anyway!). In the beginning I got my hands on a Junior Cert book and CD and worked my way through it.

rebel girl 15

Watching TG4 is great as well for conversational Irish. I found it very useful for my Leaving! Foinse is published in one of the newpapers every week/two, Independent I think?

RealJohn

gaeilgegrinds wrote: »

Conversational Irish and written grammar tend to differ but I would suggest working on conversational and it'll really help you. Talk in Irish pubs, loads of people love that, join a conversational group and perhaps watch as much TG4 as you can. Is it for your oral for the postgrad?

I'll second this. Go out and find Irish speakers and get talking. For the most part, they'll be happy you're making the effort (there are always pricks who'll have a "who do you think you are trying to speak Irish?" attitude but they're the minority and not worth worrying about) and it's the way to learn.

You probably don't need a high standard of Irish to get into primary teaching (based on the average primary teacher I've met) but please try to exceed the minimum standard. Far too many people go into primary teaching with the view that Irish is an inconvenience to them (I'm not saying that that's you) and so, they do a very poor job of teaching Irish. Be positive about the language and it will have a positive effect on you.

Best of luck.

tascher rose

Thanks for all the replies. Will do what ye have advised. Yeah its for the postgrad- Hibernia. Would love to do it.