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CAO CODE MI008
YEAR 4
Semester 7: Student as Leader
• Professional Placement 5
• Professional Placement 6
• Portfolio
• Undergraduate Dissertation 1
PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT
The professional placement element of the programme is designed
to meet the Teaching Council’s requirements, and students will spend approximately 24 weeks in primary schools during the programme. This period will allow students to engage
in observation, class-based and whole-school teaching and learning activities. Working in partnership with schools, the placements are designed to enable students to experience all class levels and a range of school types, and the student is guided and empowered along his/ her learning-to-teach journey.
Semester 8: Student as Leader
• Schools and Society 3
• Developmental Psychology 2
• Abnormal Psychology
• Advanced Issues in Educational Psychology • Undergraduate Dissertation 2
APPLIED PLACEMENT
This placement provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge of psychology to an educational environment other than a mainstream Irish national school, and to bring psychological insights to the professional experience. In addition, a small number of online modules will take place in out-of- semester time during Years 1 and 2.
GAELTACHT COURSES - TRÉIMHSÍ FOGHLAMA SA GHAELTACHT
All Bachelor of Education students
are required to attend two residential placements in the Gaeltacht as
part of the programme – Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 1 agus 2. Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 1 is taken in year 1 of the programme and Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht 2
in year 3. Each placement lasts two weeks. Students bear the cost of this compulsory course and the cost for 2017 - 2018 was €750 per placement. Each of these modules is graded with an examination in oral Irish. Students will take an examination in oral Irish after completing the first placement
at the end of their first year of initial teacher education. Students must pass this examination in order to continue to the second year of the programme. A repeat of the examination in oral Irish test is provided by the College.
All students must have completed
the two Gaeltacht placements successfully before entering
year four of the programme.
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