2017 December

Programme 310, The Role of Questions in Teaching (20-12-17)

Posted in SESE on Dec 20th, 2017 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I am joined once again by philosopher and retired primary school teacher, John Doyle. In the interview, John reflects on the role of questions in teaching.

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Programme 309, David Didau 3 & Buildup to Christmas (13-12-17)

Posted in Maths/Science on Dec 13th, 2017 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's programme I bring you the third and final part of my interview with David Didau, author of What if Everything You Knew about Education Was Wrong? Among the people and websites referred to in this part of our discussion are the following:

The Neuroscience of Intelligence by Richard J Haier

How to Teach by Phil Beadle

My second guest this week is Jane Shimizu who is a primary teacher in a DEIS school in county Galway. For many years she kept a busy classroom blog and current updates are on the school website. As part of her discussion on science week, she mentioned the website www.rokit.com.

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Programme 308, Brendan Culligan on Spellings & Handwriting (5-12-17)

Posted in Primary, Conferences, Language Education on Dec 6th, 2017 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I welcome back a guest who was on the programme before, Brendan Culligan. Brendan was a keynote speaker at the 2017 annual conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. His presentation was titled “More than one hundred and twenty five years of Crushing ‘Garlic’!" - in which he honours the memory of an educator who had insightful ideas about teaching spelling.