Episodes
Wednesday Nov 30, 2016
Programme 270, Pam Grossman on Teacher Education (30-11-16)
Wednesday Nov 30, 2016
Wednesday Nov 30, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Professor Pam Grossman who is Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. The opportunity came about to interview Professor Grossman when she gave a keynote address to the annual conference of the Association for Teacher Education of Europe.
Professor Grossman was previously a guest on the programme in May 2011. You can listen back to that programme here.
Wednesday Nov 23, 2016
Programme 269, New Leaving Cert Subject: Politics and Society (23-11-16)
Wednesday Nov 23, 2016
Wednesday Nov 23, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Annette Honan from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment about the new Leaving Certificate subject, Politcs and Society.
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
Programme 268, Public Speaking pt 2 (16-11-16)
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with SIobhán Keenan Fitzgerald, the principal of Eglish National School in Galway. In this part of the interview Siobhán talks about how as principal she introduced the public speaking programme she developed, LET'S STAND, in the school, how she uses video examples of public speaking in her teaching and how her school was selected as a Changemaker school.
In November 2016 Siobhán won the over 19s category of the National Final of the Europe Direct Soapbox Competition. You can watch her winning poetic speech Siobhán Keenan Fitzgerald.
Wednesday Nov 09, 2016
Programme 267, Teaching Public Speaking pt 1 (9-11-16)
Wednesday Nov 09, 2016
Wednesday Nov 09, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
My guest on this week's programme is Siobhán Keenan Fitzgerald who developed the Let's Stand programme to teach public speaking to children. In the programme Siobhán outlines the difference between public speaking and debating, she tells the story of how a presentation she gave in Japanese to a group of Japanese tea-ladies reinforced for her the power of public speaking and she explains how she began to apply principles of Toastmasters in her teaching. Siobhán is principal of Eglish National School in Galway, which is recognised as a changemaker school.
Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
Programme 266, Education in Romania (2-11-16)
Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
My guest on the programme this week is Georgeta Ion. Originally from Romania, Georgeta is a lecturer in the Department of Applied Pedagogy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.