2024-2025

The core competencies for Programmes in the School of Education subject to Fitness to Practise are listed below. In addition to these competencies, students must also fulfil the requirements of the Teaching Council in order to be able to register as a teacher when they graduate. Student teachers must be capable of demonstrating the following competencies throughout their ITE programme and on programme completion:

1. Understand and enact the core principles and values enshrined in the Teaching Council Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers 2016.
2. Manage their own health and wellbeing including consulting and following the advice of a suitably qualified professional on any risk posed by their own mental/physical health.
3. Be aware of their role in the wellbeing and care of others in the school setting including being cognisant of the impact of one’s actions on self and on others.
4. Demonstrate effective and appropriate interpersonal and communication skills with all programme stakeholders including UCC staff, partner school staff, and cooperating teachers (Treoraithe) and pupils.
5. Develop and enact decision making capacities to ensure effective and responsive management and care of young people in their professional setting.
6. Be able to remain alert at all times and implement all Health and Safety requirements appropriate to your responsibilities as a teacher.
7. Critically evaluate and implement appropriate and holistic theories of teaching, learning, and assessment to ensure the learning of pupils in their care and contribute appropriately to broader education debates in these areas of professional expertise.
8. Develop the range of professional and research skills to contribute to, respond to, manage, and enact ongoing change in their professional practice and in education generally.