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Programme 279, Student Engagement & Teacher Education in Mathematics (8-2-17)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

This week I speak to Professor Janette Bobis from the University of Sydney where she is Professor of Mathematics Education and Research Director for the Sydney School of Education and Social Work. During the interview we discuss the following topics:

• Student engagement in mathematics
• Motivating children to be interested in mathematics
• How she became interested in mathematics education
• What research teaches us about how children learn mathematics
• Her approach to educating future teachers

In the course of the interview she referred to videos about teaching that are available from the University of Washington's website. Here is a link to those videos: http://tedd.org/mathematics/  (and not the ones I initially thought: https://www.youtube.com/user/uwcoe/videos).

Programme 250, Orla Kelly on Teaching Science pt 2 (6-4-16)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I continue my discussion with Orla Kelly on the teaching of science in the primary school. Orla Kelly lectures in the Church of Ireland College of Education and she co-authored the book Creative Teaching in Primary Science with Roger Cutting of Plymouth University.

Programme 249, Orla Kelly on Teaching Science, pt 1 (30 March 2016)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme my guest is Dr Orla Kelly from the Church of Ireland College of Education. She recently co-authored the book Creative Teaching in Primary Science with Roger Cutting from Plymouth University.

Programme 244, Jane Shimizu on Primary Teaching, pt 1 (24-2-16)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to experienced primary teacher of junior classes, Jane Shimizu whose enthusiasm for teaching is infectious. She talks about all aspects of teaching, including planning for the year, daily planning for teaching, subject integration, record keeping, assessment, homework, and active learning. She also talks about her passion for teaching science; she received an award in 2010 from the Institute of Physics. She keeps a classroom blog here.

Programme 241, Jack Whitehead pt 2 & Young Scientists (3-2-16)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

This week I bring you the second part of my interview with Jack Whitehead on the topic of Living Educational Theory and Action Research. You can find out more about Jack Whitehead's work at his website http://actionresearch.net Jack Whitehead was in Ireland to address a meeting of Educational Action Research in Ireland (EARI).

I also bring you a short report from the 2016 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. The report was done by my colleague on 103.2 Dublin City FM, Alex Gibson, who presents The Persuaders every Friday at 1pm.

Programme 230, Science Teaching and Scifest; & More on Picture Books (10-11-15)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's programme to mark National Science Week I visited the national finals of Scifest and spoke to its founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sheila Porter. I also spoke to two teachers, Catherine Tattersall from Sutton Park School and Dr. Katie Corbett from Skerries Community College.

I also bring you a final piece from my interview with Mary Roche, author of Developing Children's Critical Thinking through Picturebooks, in which she names some of her favourite picture books.

Programme 224, Mags Amond on Learning to Teach, Teachmeets & More (1-7-15)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's programme my guest is Mags Amond, a recently retired science teacher, a prolific tweeter and the woman who introduced Teachmeets to  Ireland.

Programme 211, Three Interviews from CESI 2015 (1-4-15)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's programme I speak to three presenters from the 2015 annual meeting of the Computer Education Society of Ireland: Leanne Lynch from St. Mary's Convent Primary School in Nenagh, Richard Millwood from Trinity College Dublin, and Bernie Goldbach from the Youth Media Team.

Programme 207, Mathletes & Tim Rylands (4-3-15)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

This programme was recorded at the 2015 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland which took place at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology on 27 and 27 February 2015. The first interview featured here is with Kelly Kirkpatrick from SOS Ventures and Martina Sexton from St. Peter's Primary School in Bray about Mathletes. The second is with the opening keynote speaker of the conference, Tim Rylands.

Programme 199, Scifest & Irish Poetry (10-12-14)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

This week's programme featured interviews from the National Finals of Scifest, with its founder, Sheila Porter; a director, Peter Brabazon; and some of the prize winners.

It also featured Dr. Marie Whelton, from the Marino Institute of Education, reading her prize winning poem from the Irish National Teachers' Organisation Séamus Heaney Poetry Competition. You can read the text of the poem here by going to page 13.