Episodes
Sunday Oct 21, 2012
Programme 148, Colum Kenny on Need for Educational Reform (21-10-12)
Sunday Oct 21, 2012
Sunday Oct 21, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme, Professor Colum Kenny from DCU's School of Communications talks about the need for our education system to be more responsive to the needs of young people.
Tuesday Oct 16, 2012
Tuesday Oct 16, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Valerie O'Dowd from the Marino Institute of Education talks about the videos she made with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment showing how parents can help their child with mathematics. You can view the videos and tip-sheets here and here. Professor Margaret Clark, from Newman University College, Birmingham, who was a guest at the Reading Association of Ireland's annual conference speaks about lefthandedness.
Sunday Oct 07, 2012
Programme 146, Reading Multi-modal Texts & More (7-10-12)
Sunday Oct 07, 2012
Sunday Oct 07, 2012
On this programme I spoke to Dr. Frank Serafini, from Arizona State University about learning to read multi-modal texts, about reading workshops, about assessment of comprehension, and about why children learn to read. He was a keynote speaker at the 36th annual conference of the Reading Association of Ireland, which took place in Marino Institute of Education in September. Presented and produced by Seán Delaney