Episodes
Wednesday Mar 29, 2017
Programme 286, Cherishing All the Children? (29-3-17)
Wednesday Mar 29, 2017
Wednesday Mar 29, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I speak to Dr. Brian Fleming, a retired school principal and author of Irish Education 1922 - 2007: Cherishing all the Children? Among the topics discussed during our conversation were the following:
- Who he spoke to in writing the book
- Where the power lies in education today
- What can be done to reduce inequality in education
- How the insertion of a single word, “for” in the Irish Constitution shaped the government’s role in education
- Provision for reducing disadvantage in the 1998 Education Act
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Programme 285, Universal Design for Learning (22-3-17)
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I speak to education consultant and Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts, Dr. Katie Novak, on the topic of Universal Design for Learning. She was in Ireland to give the keynote presentation at the 2017 Conference of AHEAD, the Association for Higher Education Access and Disability in Dublin. Among the topics we discuss are:
What is universal design for learning?
How might universal design for learning be applied in teaching English?
What is the difference between differentiated instruction and universal design for learning?
Why students need to fail in the short-term to find long term success.
What skills taught in school do we need to hold onto and what can be safely let go?
Katie refers to the book, The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey.
Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
Programme 284, Akihiko Takahashi on Lesson Study & More (15-3-17)
Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I am joined by Professor Akihiko Takahashi from the College of Education at De Paul University who talks about the teaching of mathematics, about Lesson Study as a form of professional development for teachers and other matters. I spoke with Professor Takahashi after he addressed an event hosted by the UCD Japan Group. Among the items we discussed were the following:
- Why learn mathematics?
- How do children learn to solve problems?
- What is lesson study?
- Why in Japan lunch is considered to be an opportunity for teaching
- How lesson study helps teachers to grow
- Why collaboration is the foundation to being an effective teacher
- Why live classroom observation is better than observing teaching on video
- How the Japanese learn from other cultures
- Are teachers born or made?
Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
Programme 283, Reflections of a Retired Art Teacher, pt 2 (8-3-17)
Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme cartoonist and retired art teacher, John Brennan, talks about making the transition from primary teaching to teaching art at post-primary level. He taught art for several years in Ard Scoil La Salle in Raheny.
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Programme 282, Reflections of a Retired Art Teacher, pt 1 (1-3-17)
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to a retired secondary school art teacher who initially trained as a primary teacher in the early 1960's. John Brennan talks about his own education and his time as a teacher. He is a cartoonist and has created thousands of cartoons for newspapers and magazines.