May 14th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy
On this week's programme Barry spoke to Sally Maguire, resource teacher in St. Raphaela's School in Stillorgan and Vice President of the ASTI about the reasonable accommodations available to support students with disabilities taking the Leaving Certificate Examination.
Posted in Special Ed, Post Primary, Assessment | 0 Comments |
May 6th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme, Professor Lisa Delpit from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and author of Multiplication is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children talks about her thoughts on raising expectations for students of colour in the United States in light of how they may help Irish educators think about educating traveller children, children from disadvantaged areas, and children whose parents were not born in Ireland.
Posted in Disadvantage, Policy | 0 Comments |
Apr 30th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme Professor Jim Spillane, from Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy in the United States, who is a graduate of St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra talks to me about organisational routines, Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life, and about how educational research could be improved in Ireland to have a greater influence on policy. Jim is the principal investigator on the Distributed Leadership research project.
Posted in Third Level, Administration, Research, Policy | 0 Comments |
Apr 24th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this programme Dr Matthew Grenby from Newcastle University told me about the origins of childhood and children's literature in the eighteenth century. He was the keynote speaker at the ninth annual conference of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature which was held on 25 and 26 February 2012. In the course of the interview Dr. Grenby referred to the Hockliffe Project website.
Posted in Conferences, Arts Education, Language Education | 0 Comments |
Apr 19th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Research Centre report by Barry Hennessy
On this programme Professor Ron Tzur from the University of Colorado Denver talks about teaching and learning maths, and discusses the importance and difficulty of counting on and multiplicative reasoning.
Posted in Primary, Maths/Science | 1 Comment » |
Apr 8th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
ASTI interview by Barry Hennessy
On this programme Barry and I ask the three general secretaries of the teaching unions to preview their 2012 conferences. We spoke to Sheila Nunan of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, Pat King of the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland, and John MacGabhann of the Teachers Union of Ireland.
Posted in Conferences | 0 Comments |
Apr 6th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Homework report by Barry Hennessy
Barry spoke to Professor Pam Sammons from Jesus College Oxford on the subject of the latest findings of the Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education project, particularly with regard to homework. Professor Sammons referred to research reports and you can read them here, here and here.
Seán spoke to Dr. Séamus Cannon, recently retired director of Blackrock Education Centre about how the work of the centre evolved during his time at the helm and he shares his thoughts on how teachers learn.
Posted in Homework, CPD for Teachers | 0 Comments |
Mar 26th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme Fred Boss talks about personal learning networks and edchatie. The interview was recorded at the CESI 2012 conference.
In the first of a two-part interview, the recently retired director of Blackrock Education Centre, Dr. Séamus Cannon, discusses how he became a teacher, the influence his father - a primary teacher -had on his work, and why he likes Joyce's Ulysses.
Posted in Conferences, Technology | 0 Comments |
Mar 21st, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill interview by Barry Hennessy
On this week's programme poet and multi-linguist Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill speaks about the benefits of learning Irish. Simon Lewis of Carlow Educate Together NS and of Anseo.Net describes how to create an app for your school using appmakr. Patrick Felicia from WIT discusses the educational potential of video games. Both Simon and Patrick presented workshops at the annual CESI conference in 2012.
Posted in Conferences, Language Education, Technology | 0 Comments |
Mar 12th, 2012 by insideeducation
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Report on physical activity and schools by Barry Hennessy
In this programmeI spoke to Professor Emer Smyth of the Economic and Social Research Institute about two studies that were recently published by the Institute: Influences on 9-year-olds' learning: Home, school and community and The primary classroom: Insights from the 'Growing up in Ireland' study
I also bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Steve Wheeler of Plymouth University who was the keynote speaker at the 2012 CESI conference. In it he speaks about online learning and virtual learning environments.
Posted in Primary, Conferences, Third Level, Technology | 0 Comments |
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