An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Sunday Jun 13, 2010
Sunday Jun 13, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News Interview by Barry Hennessy This week's programme featured interviews with Nellie Torres and Ronan Maher to coincide with the Cluas conference on Unlocking Speech and Language Difficulties. The Cluas centre uses a specific therapy, the Tomatis method, to support children with developmental delays, especially delays in speech and language. Barry interviewed Conor Ryan about the proposed abolition of the General Teaching Council in England and about academy schools in the United Kingdom.
Sunday Jun 06, 2010
Sunday Jun 06, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy Check the comments on this webpage for an important clarification about submitting a cover letter with a job application. On this week's programme Maria Doyle, the Principal of Our Lady of Mercy Senior National School in Waterford City and a member of the Executive Committee of the Irish Primary Principals' Network (IPPN), gives advice to primary teachers who are applying for jobs. The IPPN runs the website educationposts.ie. We also hear from the Principal of Balbriggan Educate Together National School, Fintan McCutcheon, who wrote on his blog about how the Student Council in the school were involved in developing criteria for appointing new teachers in the school. Barry reports on the planned abolition of the General Teaching Council in England. He also describes changes made by the State Examinations Commission to avoid a repeat of the security breach that caused problems in last year's Leaving Certificate Exam.
Tuesday Jun 01, 2010
Tuesday Jun 01, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy In this programme John Carr outlines how the Irish National Teachers' Organisation influenced education policy over the last two decades. He also summarises the achievements and regrets of his time as General Secretary of the Organisation. Barry speaks to Judith Cosgrove of the Educational Research Centre about a report into early school leaving by Irish teenagers
Monday May 24, 2010
Monday May 24, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy This programme features the first of a two-part interview with the recently retired General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), John Carr. In the interview he talks about his days as a teacher and principal in Belgrove National School in Clontarf. Barry provides an analysis of the results of the teachers' ballots on the Croke Park agreement. He also discusses the proposal by the ASTI to provide an internship in schools for beginning post-primary teachers.
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. The guest on this programme was Susan M. Parkes who recently authored a book titled A Guide to Sources for the History of Irish Education 1780 - 1922. The book is published by Four Courts Press and is available in hardback and paper back from all good bookshops and from the Four Courts Press website. A competition was run on this programme for a copy of the book. The closing date for entries is 12 noon on Friday, April 30th.
Monday Apr 12, 2010
Monday Apr 12, 2010
ASTI and INTO reports by Seán Delaney. TUI report by Barry Hennessy. This programme consists of reports from the conferences of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation and the Teachers' Union of Ireland.
Monday Apr 05, 2010
Monday Apr 05, 2010
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.
Monday Mar 29, 2010
Monday Mar 29, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News report by Barry Hennessy. The guest on the programme this week was Simon Lewis of Carlow Educate Together National School. Simon talked about using technology in teaching, investing in technology for schools and about his websites www.anseo.net and www.mash.ie. He also tweets about education. During his interview Simon referred to various other websites. One is a repository of educational resources, www.seomraranga.ie. Another is the website of the Computer Education Society of Ireland and the third is the site where you can produce wordles. Barry spoke to Brian Hayes, Fine Gael spokesman on education, about the priorities for the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan, in her new brief.
Tuesday Mar 23, 2010
Tuesday Mar 23, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report by Barry Hennessy The main interview this week was with Professor Richard Bailey who was the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Irish Primary Physical Education Association in Limerick. Seán also spoke to Caitriona Cosgrave who is chairperson of the Irish Primary Physical Education Association and who lectures in Coláiste Mhuire, Marino Institute of Education. Barry spoke to Damien Bracken from Boston's Berklee College of Music about local workshops and scholarships for promising musicians.
Sunday Mar 14, 2010
Sunday Mar 14, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News reporter: Barry Hennessy On this week's programme we feature an interview with the Director of the Teaching Council, Aine Lawlor, on the work of the Council. We begin the programme with the views of a non-scientific sample of teachers we spoke to in two schools - one primary and one secondary.