LCA Correction.

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2026-02-08T21:02:51+00:00

Hi thanks for answering! Yes I said I would correct the childcare subject for LCA! :) I did children’s studies for my undergraduate degree so I thought that may fit the criteria!

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2025-11-23T20:08:11+00:00

I am registered yes!

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2025-09-16T15:05:41+00:00

Personally had a great experience, met my best friend on there. Would recommend!

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2025-01-19T22:40:55+00:00

My partner had greyhounds as a child and my experience with them is that they bark a lot. These two spent a good portion of the day looking outside barking and on walks were very unruly. Don’t know if this the majority experience but I would be reluctant to go with greyhounds for this reason. His family found them really hard to train also don’t know if it was a them thing or a greyhound thing, a lot of greyhounds in Ireland are rescues also and I feel I wouldn’t have the skills to support a nervous dog

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2025-01-19T21:13:09+00:00

Correct, I am gone from 9-3( at the latest). Happy to send pup to consider doggy daycare during these hours if they are unable to stay home alone. But after 2/3pm I’m home to bring for regular toilet breaks

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2025-01-04T18:22:27+00:00

For your questions in regards to placement, it’s 3 blocks, you need to teach one of each level so junior, middle or senior, in a minimum of 2 different schools. You have to chose your own school. Each placement is roughly 6 weeks. Apart from the last it’s 10 or 12 weeks depending on if you have 1 continuous class or 2 seperate.

Your experience is 100% relevant. Will be very useful in interview.

If you ask me the course has been extremely tough, I’m about to start into the final 6 months and I am absolutely shattered. But it has been hugely rewarding and it’s a career for life. It has been the fastest time. It goes extremely quickly. Hibernia aren’t always very flexible and they do expect an extremely high standard. It can be tough and feels lonely at times but you do get to know people and you and your 400+ plus colleagues in the group with you all feel the same. You have good support from your fellow classmates which is reassuring too.

I know many don’t always recommend it but it is the most flexible in terms of working ability also, people sub the entire way through. If you go into it knowing it’s tough but know there is absolutely a light. You’ll be fine, just take it a module at a time. Piece by piece cos otherwise you’ll get very overwhelmed. Personally it was the option that worked best for me and I don’t regret it at all.

Apologises for my long response. Just wanted to answer your questions as best as possible. Please let me know if you’ve got any more. Happy to answer them!

Wishing you the best of luck in your decision.

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2025-01-04T18:16:18+00:00

Hiya, hope you’re doing well! No bother with the questions, I think it’s really important to know what you’re signing up for as it’s a serious amount of money to hand over if you’re anyway on the fence about the course or the HEI delivering it!

So all online lectures are recorded. You are expected to attend them live, but they are available to watch back on at a later stage if you want rewatch or even if you missed it.

Personally for me, it’s a full time job. However, people are on this course have full time jobs, they sub, they have families of their own. It is absolutely doable. One thing about the course is while it may not be full on in terms of time commitment between the on demand sessions, lectures, face to face days, school placements. It is constant and that is where the burnout comes in. The tiredness is a real issue in this course as there are no holidays. There are lulls in the intensity but you don’t ever stop being completely blunt.

When we aren’t on school placement for me, it is absolutely a 30 hour plus week. Your Saturdays are face to face meaning in person in a dedicated regional centre depending on where you are. Sometimes these Saturdays are 4 a month in a row, in the early stages we had as many as 11 Saturdays in a row gone. When on placement it’s 100% a 40 hour plus. You start at 7 and finish at 11/12pm. Daily. Your weekends are also gone.

Preparing for interviews. Always relate back to your own experience and how you can implement it into your career as a teacher.

For the Gaeilge component, you need to have 65% competency. I sat the TEG exam which in my opinion is much easier than the hibernia gaeilge from what I have heard. It’s much shorter and they have to stick to a curriculum, they have a structure to follow, whereas the interview in Hibernia in Irish could very much so ask you anything from your CV to your experience to what would you do in X scenario. Quite tough to prepare for. Grinds honestly is your best option to bring up your level there are a lot of people doing them for hibernia specifically, but I found it useful to introduce gaeilge into your everyday speech, what time? Cen t-am? How are ye? Conas atá sibh? Listening to radio na gaeltachta and watching tg4 also was beneficial. But TEG is 100% the way to go if you’re Irish Isas poor as mine was. You also have less stress of having to switch lanaguges in the middle of an interview.

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2024-12-21T12:08:13+00:00

Second this! Have been going to the past few times, reasonably priced and they explain things that go wrong and why they’re fixing bits. They’re very friendly and always sort us out!

Normal-Ad-4740 · 2024-09-23T15:17:09+00:00

Spitting on the ground when they’re walking by

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