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Programme 63, Shenk & The Genius in All of Us (19-9-10)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In this programme David Shenk talks to us about his latest book The Genius in All of Us. It describes how our genes interact with our environment to influence our potential.

Programme 59, Preparing for Life (Parenting intervention), & View From Here (22-8-10)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. You can choose the statistics about leaving certificate results that you want to view for yourself here. I compared failure rates and A grades in maths with those in modern languages, business studies and the arts. The guests on this week's programme were Mr. Noel Kelly who is the Manager of "Preparing for Life" intervention with the Northside Partnership. Dr. Orla Doyle is a senior researcher at University College Dublin's Geary Institute. Barry presented and produced "The View from Here" and his guest this week was Tony Donoghue of IBEC.

Programme 39, Drama and Asperger Syndrome, & ASTI Science Study (4-4-10)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report by Barry Hennessy The main guest was Dr. Carmel O'Sullivan from the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin. She spoke about the collaboration between Trinity College and Aspire, the Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland. Barry spoke to Moira Leyden the Assistant General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland about the findings of the Association's recently released survey of science teaching.

Programme 31, Handwriting, Technology in Education, Teacher Knowledge (7-2-10)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News interview by Barry Hennessy. Simon Lewis, the principal who spoke from the floor of the IPPN conference, expanded his thoughts on the topic and these can be read here. His full blog can be accessed here. Brendan Culligan's new book is Spelling and Handwriting and it is a follow-up to Improving Children's Spelling. Seán Delaney's report on primary teacher's mathematical knowledge is called Knowing What Counts.

Programme 28, BT Young Scientists and their Teachers, and News (17-1-10)

Presented and produced by Sean Delaney. News report by Barry Hennessy. This is a report from the BT Young Scientists Exhibition and it includes interviews with teachers and students from St. Joseph's College in Lucan, Sutton Park School and Arklow Community College.