An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Sunday Oct 30, 2011
Sunday Oct 30, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney PISA Investigation by Barry Hennessy Interactive Whiteboard report by Sinéad Burke On this week's programme my special guest was poet and retired teacher Gabriel Fitzmaurice from Moyvane in Co. Kerry. He spoke about teaching writing and teaching Irish, and read his poem Proud to Be Me from his collection of the same name, published by Mercier Press. One of the websites referred to by Sinéad in her report is www.anseo.net.
Wednesday Oct 26, 2011
Wednesday Oct 26, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News Roundup by Barry Hennessy Book Review by Sinéad Burke On this week's programme, Dr. Thérese Dooley, from St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, explained how and why children can learn more mathematics when the teacher doesn't tell. Thérese Dooley was a keynote speaker at the MEI conference in September and the piece was broadcast this week to coincide with the end of Maths Week. Sinéad Burke reviewed a book written by DES inspector Dr. John White and Queen's University Professor John Gardner, titled The Classroom X-Factor: The Role of Body Language and Non-verbal Communication in Teaching.
Monday Sep 12, 2011
Monday Sep 12, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy On this week's programme Professor Suzanne Wilson from Michigan State University talks about teaching methods for history and geography, about the carnival of professional development opportunities that teachers have to choose from, and about the power of social networks in professional development. She talks about a specific, successful professional development initiative, the Urban Advantage programme, that is organised at the American Museum of Natural History. Barry discusses the Hyland Report in his coverage of the week's news.
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News interview by Barry Hennessy. This week we bring you the second part of an interview conducted recently with Dr. Anne Looney of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. In the programme Anne Looney shares her views on assessment, what education can learn from computer games, Junior Cert reform, the Leaving Certificate, the CAO points system and Transition Year. In the news interview Barry presents an interview with Lorraine Dempsey about cutbacks to Special Needs Assistants in schools.
Monday Aug 29, 2011
Monday Aug 29, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News roundup by Barry Hennessy. This was the first programme in the 2011-2012 school year. The guest on this programme was Dr. Anne Looney who is Chief Executive Officer of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). In this part of the interview she discusses the role of the NCCA, the breadth of the Primary School Curriculum and how some teachers are teaching without textbooks.
Saturday Jul 16, 2011
Saturday Jul 16, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News Report by Barry Hennessy On this programme I spoke to Martina Gannon and Lána McCarthy from Write Minded, a service of Young Ballymun. They spoke about the Summer Slide initiative that they are implementing this year. Barry reports on the launch of Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life: The National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People 2011-2020. He plays an excerpt from the Minister's speech on launch day and gets a response from Peter Mullan of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation.
Friday Jul 08, 2011
Friday Jul 08, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The guest on this programme was Professor Suzanne Wilson from the College of Education at Michigan State University. Reference was made to the Initial Teacher Education:Criteria and Guidelines for Programme Providers developed by the Teaching Council.
Friday Jun 24, 2011
Friday Jun 24, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. Analysis by Barry Hennessy. The guest on this 100th programme is Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn.
Monday May 02, 2011
Monday May 02, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Analysis by Barry Hennessy In this programme I spoke to the deputy general secretaries of each of the teacher unions and asked them to reflect on the highlights of their 2011 conference. My guests were Annette Dolan of the Teachers' Union of Ireland, Diarmaid de Paor of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland and Noel Ward of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation.
Tuesday Apr 26, 2011
Tuesday Apr 26, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme I spoke to Alan Bennett of Fighting Words, a creative writing initiative in Dublin's inner city to get children of all ages writing. It was set up by Roddy Doyle and Seán Love, inspired by 826 Valencia in San Francisco. The programme also featured a brief snippet of the interview with Mark Patrick Hederman, Abbot of Glenstal who featured in a recent programme. This was a clip that I was unable to bring you in the previous programme due to lack of time.