An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Sunday Jun 09, 2013
Sunday Jun 09, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney For this week's programme I went on location to the Burren where Gordon D'Arcy and Paddy Madden were bringing a group of student teachers on a tour of the Burren. I eavesdropped on the tour and asked Gordon some questions about organising a school tour to exploit its educational potential. In the programme Gordon refers to the Heritage in Schools scheme. You can find out more about it here.
Monday May 20, 2013
Monday May 20, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, retired teacher and philosopher John Doyle discusses how he taught using films in the primary classroom and the 1999 primary school curriculum.
Monday Apr 29, 2013
Monday Apr 29, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Dr. Fionnuala Waldron from St. Patrick's College discusses the teaching of history.
Sunday Feb 24, 2013
Sunday Feb 24, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme retired primary teacher and philosopher, John Doyle, shares his experiences and reflections on teaching poetry to children in primary school. Among the poets he mentions are Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost.
Sunday Jan 20, 2013
Sunday Jan 20, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the first part of a two-part interview with retired Principal of Scoil Chiaráin Special School, Glasnevin, Éamonn Ó Murchu. On this week's programme Éamonn discusses his own primary schooling, the influence his teacher and mentor, Bryan MacMahon, had on him and on time he spent teaching in Zimbabwe.
Sunday Jan 06, 2013
Sunday Jan 06, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Paddy Madden spoke to us about teaching Social, Environmental, and Scientific Education (SESE) in wintertime. This programme completes a series of four interviews with Paddy on teaching SESE across the seasons. In this programme Paddy referred to three websites: InTouch, the publication of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, Paddy's School Garden section of the Blackrock Education Centre website and the website of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Tuesday Jan 01, 2013
Tuesday Jan 01, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to Dr. Eemer Eivers, research fellow, and Aidan Clerkin, research associate, at the Educational Research Centre at St. Patrick's College about the performance of Irish fourth class children on the PIRLS and TIMSS tests. In the tests Irish children's performance on reading, maths and science was compared with the performance of children in up to 50 other countries. The guests authored the Irish report, which can be viewed here.
Monday Nov 19, 2012
Monday Nov 19, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Professor Margaret M. Clark, who was in Ireland as a guest of the Reading Association of Ireland, discusses topics including literacy, research and early years education.
Sunday Nov 04, 2012
Sunday Nov 04, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme I continued my seasonal coverage of teaching social, environmental and scientific education in the primary school with teacher, teacher educator and environmentalist, Paddy Madden. During the interview Paddy referred to the section about "Paddy's School Garden" on the Blackrock Education Centre website.
Tuesday Oct 16, 2012
Tuesday Oct 16, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Valerie O'Dowd from the Marino Institute of Education talks about the videos she made with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment showing how parents can help their child with mathematics. You can view the videos and tip-sheets here and here. Professor Margaret Clark, from Newman University College, Birmingham, who was a guest at the Reading Association of Ireland's annual conference speaks about lefthandedness.