Episodes
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Programme 67, Steve Humble & Maths Week, and News (17-10-10)
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney The main guest on the programme was Steve Humble, aka Dr. Maths from the National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics. He shared with listeners a maths problem to solve. Barry Hennessy spoke to Peter Mullan from the Irish National Teachers' Organisation about the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010 and allowing non-teachers to be employed as teachers in schools.
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Programme 66, Research in the Humanities, and news (10-10-10)
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy The main guest on the programme was Ms. Dipti Pandya, the Director of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Barry interviewed Larry Fleming from the Irish Primary Principals' Network about the place of homework in children's education at primary school.
Monday Oct 11, 2010
Programme 65, Timothy Shanahan on Teaching Reading, and News (3-10-10)
Monday Oct 11, 2010
Monday Oct 11, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The special guest on this programme was Professor Timothy Shanahan from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was in Ireland as a guest of Young Ballymun and he presented a keynote address at the Reading Association of Ireland's Annual Conference.
Monday Oct 04, 2010
Programme 64, Reading Recovery & News (26-9-10)
Monday Oct 04, 2010
Monday Oct 04, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy In this interview Sr. Freda Kenny, who is based in the Marino Institute of Education, describes her work as a teacher leader for Reading Recovery. This is an intervention developed by Marie Clay to support young learners in learning to read.