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Last year I applied separately for two periods of incremental credit from my teaching in the U.K. In total these added up to an extra 16 points on the scale.

Now I assumed I would go onto point 18 from September, but the DOE told me I would retrospectively have skipped points 4/8 and 12. This means that in fact I will be on point 21.

I can only encourage anyone who moves from the U.K to teach to apply for any incremental credit. Although the process is very long (20 weeks) this has been a gamechanger for me. This extra credit skip was totally unexpected and not obviously signposted during the process of applying.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I want to add Geography to my list of subjects and I have a couple of credits already. Are there any courses I can do to get more credits so I can teach it?

Any advice is greatly appreciated

Hi all I off to the Gaeltacht next week with Hibernia I would be mostly older than my cohort, majority of my cohort are female we do all get on great and I am looking foward to the two weeks. I have never been to the Gaeltacht before. Has anyone any tips or advice, what are evenings like will the colaiste run evening activities and what is class like day to day, do the 2 weeks drag. Would a male be put in a house with female students too. All advice welcome, thanks.

I'm correcting LC papers at the moment, and I'm not enjoying it at all.

Does anyone have any experience with resigning from correcting? How did you go about it?

Thanks!

Hi all! Hope everyone enjoying a lovely summer so far.

To State Examination correctors, I unexpectedly received some money / pay (hooray), but when I checked it out on my revenue I was taxed out the wazoo for it, which is grand I know it works out in January etc , but I would be very enthusiastic to have a payslip and keep a record of my pay and tax. Does anyone know where I can access a payslip for correcting?

GRMA x

Hi all,

I trained as a secondary school teacher in England and I’ve been working as one in London from 2021 to December 2025. I moved home to Ireland and just got my teaching number last month. The subjects I am qualified to teach are geography and politics & society (niche I know 🥲)

Im living back in the midlands in my family home at the moment. I’ve been applying for the odd job I’ve seen online, they usually are for geography with a subject I don’t have such as English, but I apply anyway.

I’m also considering just trying to sub in schools from September. Does anyone know the best way to go about this? Is it good to go around to the schools and hand in your cv or is there an online platform that’s used?

My sister also lives in Dublin so if there’s more work up there I can stay with her and work in Dublin schools. I’m hoping to at least get the ball rolling and then keep applying for jobs until I get my foot in the door. I’m also considering adding on an additional subject to make me more employable, maybe history.

I appreciate any help and advice

Hi guys I am due to get surgery in December time I’m just wondering what’s the conditions for going back to work I know you can’t go back on a crutches but would anyone know about an acl knee brace I will be doing during the surgery during holidays so crutches during the holidays and then a alc brace for maybe a month.
Thanks in advance ( I’m a primary teacher btw)

Hi all!

I know this has been asked before but I’m really at a loss as to how to research/ go about this.

I have an undergraduate degree in Law and Media and have decided after some subbing work that I would love to go into secondary teaching.

I would ideally like to teach English and Politics and Society but do not have the necessary credits as per the teaching council requirements.

I really don’t know how to go about getting the necessary credits. I do not want to pursue an entire undergraduate again.

I keep seeing the phrase “top up course” in other posts but unsure what that means.

I tried emailing the council but they said I’d first have to be accepted into a PME before my eligibility can be determined. Again I’m not sure how that works as I know I am short the necessary credits.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

I’m starting year one of my PME Post Primary in August and just have some questions. For some background the school is in Dublin with about 500 pupils. My subjects are Irish and History

I’ve gotten my vetting disclosure from both DCU and the School but I applied to the teaching council nearly 3 weeks ago and they haven’t even sent my vetting on to the NVB, what is the craic with this?

Also they only have 1 other PME in the school and the Principal said I would be needed 5 days a week for cover and stuff like that, is cover really required that much?

There is a lot of schools in the general area I could sub in, a lot of them have been advertising for Irish teachers for years but have been struggling to get them. The only problem is the TC though and how slow they are as it’s a pain getting vetted individually by each school.

Any advice?

Anyone any experience switching career away from teaching? Is teaching experience particularly useful in any other fields or is more training/ education/ courses needed?

Hi, I’ve just returned home from teaching abroad in a career break. Within the time I’ve been gone the cost of living in Ireland has sky rocketed. I’m trying my hardest to put 400 into savings every two weeks but I’m really living paycheque to paycheque and that’s without paying rent or not havjng any loan or major expenses. I’ve really been focused on this the past two months to track my spending. It’s not like I’m out every weekend, my main costs are groceries and and petrol coming roughly to 350 altogether if not more every two weeks.

Now that it’s summer I find I can’t enjoy it because I simply don’t have the money to. I really don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Are there any ways to make an extra bit of cash, yes I do have some grinds that stop in summer, I applied for superintendent but didn’t get called.

Hi! I’m starting to get a bit worried about the lack of jobs! Please tell me more jobs come up in August 😅😅

Does anyone have any advice for interviews? I am an anxious person naturally and have such a fear of interviews. I am an NQT and am applying to lots of jobs but hearing nothing back. I haven't got an interview yet but I am actually scared to secure one!! I feel I will do bad and not answer correctly. I'm even too nervous to go to a career coach for help on interviews.

I'm trying to get incremental credit forms signed for my time in a UK academy back in 2012. I recently moved to Ireland and need to complete the forms. The school has now closed under its former identity and the current academy trust in charge are refusing to acknowledge anything to do with it.

Any advice how to solve this? It's four years that I dont want to miss out on.

Hi all,
I will start my first teaching job in late August as an NQT. I see from the new pay scale with effect from June 2026 that point 1 on the payscale (which I assume will be me?) is €47,417. I am just wondering how much of this will be my net pay? I would appreciate if anyone could let me know what the weekly income is actually like?

Thanks in advance!

Any word on when allowances for Deis, Special schools etc will be seen in wages . I had heard June but no sign.

I’m just checking to see if anyone did get paid for state exam superintendent already? Asking this because the last 2 years I’ve done LC so sending in forms late compared to JC. I had JC this year and had the form sent on the 12th. Was almost hoping it might be next Friday we get paid? Or is that being unrealistic? Thanks let me know if you’ve got yours this week or have in previous years, received pay pretty quickly.

Update edit: I meant superintendent pay in the title not superintendent Pat lol

Depends on the numbers but schools with 3 classes of 24 may be asked to go for 2x30 if numbers fall.

It's like nothing has changed since the 80s

It's my first year correcting and I'm shocked by the tight deadlines and demands. People told me it was intense but I thought id have a bit more flexibility with deadlines. Will it get any better?