School Placement Hub

Thank you for agreeing to provide a school placement for our student teacher(s). Your role is critical to their professional formation and we look forward to working with you and supporting you in undertaking this role. The Professional Master of Education (PME) at the School of Education, University College Dublin is a two-year, full-time Level 9 programme which is creative, innovative and a leading model in initial teacher education internationally.

Given our belief and the research evidence of the requirement to focus attention during initial teacher education to both the theoretical and the practical, we endeavour at all times to make explicit connections between carefully planned module content, coursework and school placement during student teachers’ formation. We perceive each component and their interconnection as key to the flourishing of the student teacher during the course of the PME programme. Collectively and distinctively, therefore, each of these components contributes to the success of the PME programme. School placement support is conceived of under the Teaching Council’s ‘Guidelines on School Placement’ CÉIM Standards for ITE in such a way that it occurs within the context of a collaborative professional community. Members of this community include the student teacher’ co-operating teacher(s), school leaders, other teachers in the school and a range of university-based teacher educators. You may find the school placement policy template below useful:

https://www.teachingcouncil.ie/en/Publications/Teacher-Education/Documents/SP-Template-Policy-for-Schools.docx