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Ciara Mc Guane, Rahoo
I am absolutely thrilled to have Ciara Mc Guane from Rahoo to guest blog on this week’s teacher career change story. For anyone outside of the world of teaching or from outside Ireland, Ciara runs a highly successful teacher professional development company who run summer courses, personal interest courses, online and face-to face courses.  Rahoo was established only a few years ago in 2017 and has since gone from strength to strength.
This is her journey. Many thanks Ciara f…
5 Reasons Newly Qualified Teachers are the Best!
I have massive respect for newly trained teachers! Entering the classroom and the staff-room as a new teacher is no easy feat! It’s quite overwhelming for the first few months indeed.
I usually end up sitting beside them in the staff-room because I feel we have something in common. As a substitute teacher and NQT… you feel a bit of an outsider. It takes time to settle into a staff. It’s only natural but it is hard to enter into some conversations when everyone else knows one another for the last …
Trust your gut, do your sums and make a plan
This week’s career change guest blog is from Ciara Bruton who is a Holistic Life & Business Coach. Ciara spent 7 years working as a Primary School teacher and has fully transitioned into her dream role as a coach. Ciara helps new, holistic practitioners in Ireland to get their business and website up and running without the overwhelm. She tells us her incredible journey about trusting her gut and making the leap towards a new career path. Here is her story.
The Transition
In 2017, I quit my “perma…
“Step Outside Your Comfort Zone”
The first in the series of five blog posts about teacher and career change is a fantastic story from teacher to meal-planner and it comes from Claire Gillies based in the UK. Claire shares her story about career change from Primary School Teacher to business owner: Claire has just launched her own meal-planning business called Delicious and Real.
Claire’s Background as a Teacher
Claire explains that she was a full time teacher before having her first child – and while she loved being in the classr…
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