The Bachelor of Education will prepare you for a rewarding career as a Primary School Teacher, a role that has a positive and lasting impact on young children's lives.

As a primary school teacher, you can make a real difference - guiding and supporting children’s growing minds and personal development. This course will help you to become a skilled and creative teaching professional.

Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
The Bachelor of Education (Primary Teaching) will equip you not only with subject knowledge, but also with the leadership and communication skills that teachers need.

The course helps you to understand how children learn, and gives you the tools to motivate your students in the classroom. As well as learning how to teach the subjects on the primary school curriculum, your knowledge and understanding of the world will deepen through great interactive lectures.

This programme enables students to examine their role as a learner, a teacher, a researcher and a leader. It comprises of on-campus study and school placement, and also gives students the opportunity to specialise in specific areas in education or the liberal arts. Insightful and challenging, the B Ed programme will prepare you for a varied and rewarding career as an educator.

This degree is designed to prepare students to be primary school teachers.The foundation disciplines of Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology and History of Education form the theoretical basis for this degree.

As a primary school teacher, you can make a real difference - guiding and supporting children’s growing minds and personal development. This course will help you to become a skilled and creative teaching professional.

Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
The Bachelor of Education (Primary Teaching) will equip you not only with subject knowledge, but also with the leadership and communication skills that teachers need.

The course helps you to understand how children learn, and gives you the tools to motivate your students in the classroom. As well as learning how to teach the subjects on the primary school curriculum, your knowledge and understanding of the world will deepen through great interactive lectures.

Over the four years of the  you will learn how to teach children aged from 4 to 12. In the foundation  you will study how children learn, what factors influence their learning and how our understanding of this has changed over time.

Advance your own knowledge of curriculum subjects and learn specific methods for teaching all primary school subjects. Experience the challenge and satisfaction of teaching through engaging in school placement in a supportive environment.

Mar mhúinteoir bunscoile, is féidir leat fíordhifríocht a dhéanamh - meon agus forbairt phearsanta leanaí a threorú agus a thacú. Cabhróidh an cúrsa seo leat a bheith i do ghairmí múinteoireachta oilte cruthaitheach

Ag Foghlaim a Mhúineadh, Ag múineadh chun foghlaim
Tabharfaidh an Baitsiléir san Oideachas (Bunmhúinteoireacht) gach eolas duit ar na hábhair a bheidh le múineadh chomh maith leis na scileanna ceannaireachta agus cumarsáide a theastaíonn chun iad a mhúineadh.

Cuidíonn an cúrsa leat tuiscint a fháil ar an gcaoi a bhfoghlaimíonn leanaí, agus tugann sé na huirlisí duit chun do mhic léinn a spreagadh sa seomra ranga. Ina theannta sin, méadófar ar do chuid eolais agus tuiscint ar an domhan thart ort trí léachtaí iontacha idirghníomhacha

The Bachelor of Education is a four-year, full-time, honours degree (Level 8) designed to qualify students to teach in primary schools. Accredited by the Teaching Council, it seeks to equip participants with the competence to teach at all levels of the primary school.

Reflecting the College's well-established reputation for excellence in teacher education, this programme enables students to examine their role as a learner, a teacher, a researcher and a leader. It comprises of on-campus study and school placement, and also gives students the opportunity to specialise in specific areas in education or the liberal arts. 

This degree is designed to prepare students to be primary school teachers.The foundation disciplines of Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology and History of Education form the theoretical basis for this degree.

You will take Education modules and a school-based placement across all four years of this professional teaching degree, as well as a placement in the Gaeltacht for two fortnight blocks in years two and three of the degree.

As a student on the programme you will study many of the same modules as your colleagues on the Bachelor of Education. In Year 3, semester 5, you will spend the semester studying abroad.

Not only will you explore teaching methodologies in a different context but the semester will also allow you to experience and understand the education system and policies of another country. On returning from your study abroad you will take education specialisation modules in Comparative Education. 

Do you like to solve problems and to think ‘outside the box’? If so, a career as an art teacher might be just the right choice for you.

The BA in Education and Design or Education and Fine Art is a Joint Honours award. That means you follow the full degree course in Fine Art or Design as well as taking a dedicated teacher education programme as a professional qualification. This Joint Honours course takes four years to complete, as compared to the three-year single discipline Fine Art or Design degree.

The B Ed in Education and Psychology is a unique four-year, full-time, double-honours (level 8) degree programme in Education and Psychology. The programme prepares graduates to be primary teachers, as accredited by the Teaching Council of Ireland, and obtain a degree in Psychology, as accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland. 

There’s a strong demand for educators and trainers across Ireland, from individual communities through to large organisations. On this course, you will gain the skills and knowledge you need to enter a career area that can change lives, and one that has excellent employment opportunities.

Education Theory
You will explore how teachers and trainers engage their learners and develop their understanding in any given topic. You will look at how people learn, how to use a variety of teaching methods to appeal to different learning styles and how to tailor your planning to get the very best from each learner.

Teaching Skills and Placement
As you develop your skills, you will be given practical advice on how to improve as a teacher trainer. You will also learn how to plan and construct lessons and then you will get the chance to practise your teaching in a safe environment before getting work experience in real life environments.

The ITEC Level 5 Diploma enables you to teach and deliver courses in your subject area. It is ideal for business/salon owners/ practitioners and also for individuals who would like to gain experience in teaching. The course can aid in developing key skills and competencies needed in the teaching sector, helping you deliver learning sessions, plan schemes of work and develop teaching and learning strategies.

This course offers such learners an opportunity to gain an understanding of the teaching profession and its methodologies. Learners will gain a wide understanding of educational systems, teaching practices in Ireland and will examine key educational issues including, the social influences surrounding how people learn, and the potential barriers to learning.

Do you want to make a difference to the lives and educational futures of young children? Then follow your passion and explore early education with an internationally-recognised team of academics and researchers in DCU.

This course will prepare you for a highly rewarding career, educating and supporting young children during a vital time in their development. The Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (BECE) prepares you for work as a professional in a variety of early childhood educational settings, from preschools and creches, to child and family support programmes and it equips graduates to work with children of all needs. The BECE enables graduates to follow a career in a range of voluntary and statutory organisations that work on behalf of children and families.

During the programme you will learn about adult, adolescent and early childhood education through attendance at classes, hands on learning, reading and skill development.

The modules delivered on the programme encompass the themes of life-long learning, ethics and social justice, education and culture, and education policies and practices. The modules cover technology, the arts, curriculum and programme design, policy analysis and much more.

Education Studies at Queen’s explores the multi-disciplinary field of education by critically examining key topics and themes and analysing research-driven insights to ask questions that matter. From concepts and issues to policy and practice, students will examine the fascinating landscape of local and global education through the core underpinning disciplines of psychology, sociology, philosophy, history, and politics.

Education Studies and Social Policy explores both the multi-disciplinary field of education and social policy. The course structure offers a broad and balanced curriculum of research-informed modules which critically examine key topics and themes relevant to education, and the patterns of social life and social change more broadly.

From concepts and issues to policy and practice, students will examine the fascinating landscape of these two subjects through local and global lenses. Students will develop advanced skills in making use of theoretical and methodological tools to ask questions that matter.

Education Studies and Sociology explores both the multi-disciplinary field of education and the discipline of sociology. The course structure offers a broad and balanced curriculum of research-informed modules which critically examine key topics and themes relevant to education, and the patterns of social life and social change more broadly.

From concepts and issues to policy and practice, students will examine the fascinating landscape of these two subjects through local and global lenses. Students will develop advanced skills in making use of theoretical and methodological tools to ask questions that matter.

This programme places great emphasis on teaching and research. Graduates are qualified to teach Business Studies and Accounting to honours Leaving Certificate level. 

This programme places great emphasis on teaching and research and as part of their development as research-active teachers, students undertake an Undergraduate Dissertation. The Dissertation can be in either Education or a Subject discipline. Students begin the preparation for the dissertation in Year 3 where they undertake their research methods module.

Students are educated in the most current methodologies and technologies available to enhance the teaching of their subject areas at post-primary level. The degree programme includes four years of modules in Irish and Religious Studies. These are taken concurrently with education modules which include theoretical, pedagogical and professional studies along with a number of school placement experiences. 

The degree programme includes four years of modules in Irish and Religious Studies. These are taken concurrently with education modules which include theoretical and professional studies along with a succession of practical teaching experiences.

The Teaching Council requires Irish language teachers to have spent a minimum of three months on residential placement in a designated Gaeltacht area prior to registering with it.