An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 18, 2018
Wednesday Apr 18, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I am in conversation with five people asking them questions about education. I begin with Dr Pádraig Hogan, a Senior Lecturer in Maynooth University and then I speak to the authors of a new book on educational research titled Learning Communities in Educational Partnerships: Action Research as Transformation. The authors are Máirín Glenn, Mary Roche, Caitríona McDonagh and Bernie Sullivan and they coordinate Educational Action Research Ireland.
Among the books mentioned on the programme are the following:
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire
Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
An Experiment in Education by Sybil Marshall
This book doesn’t make ... by Jean Augur
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is teacher educator and philosopher Dr. Pádraig Hogan of the Department of Education at Maynooth University. I spoke to Pádraig at the annual conference of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland. Among the topics we discussed in a wide-ranging interview were:
- The purpose of schools
- Truth and education
- Teaching as a way of life
- Learning as a way of life for teachers
- Supervision on school placement
- Challenging our prejudices as teachers and teacher educators
- Deference and difference in education
- Ethics and education
Ethics and teaching
Becoming a discerning reader of your own teaching
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I speak to two keynote speakers from the 2018 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland, Elizabeth Oldham and Richard Millwood, both from Trinity College Dublin. They discuss the past, present and future of the organisation and among other topics Richard discusses how computational thinking relates to teaching the visual arts.
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme my guest is Joanna Norton, a lecturer at the University of the Arts in London. In the course of our interview she told me about the App she developed called Keywords Biology.
Wednesday Mar 21, 2018
Wednesday Mar 21, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
This week I speak to the Chairperson of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI), Adrienne Webb, about the new Leaving Certificate course in Computer Science and other matters.
During the interview we discuss how CESI has been working with various players, such as the NCCA and the PDST, to facilitate the smooth introduction of the syllabus; Adrienne tells us about how she became interested in technology; she discusses resources for teaching computer science; and she describes her approach to working with technology in school.
Wednesday Mar 14, 2018
Wednesday Mar 14, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to lecturer in mathematics and programming at LIT (Tipperary Campus), Pamela O'Brien. Among the topics we discuss are:
- Her workshop on “Breakoutedu”
- Her job at LIT – Tipperary Campus
- The ICT in Education Conference
- The difference between coding and computer science
- Transitions she made from working in insurance to lecturing and from mathematics to computer science
- How teachers can become more involved in coding
- Who inspires her
- Why she likes EDCHATIE
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with primary teacher and mathematics teacher educator, Claire Corroon. You can access resources and opinions about mathematics teaching on her website, Primary CPD. Among the topics we discuss this week are the following:
- Her Views on Curriculum Revision in primary mathematics
- Differentiation in mathematics
- Assessment in mathematics
- Mathematics curricula in other countries
- Jerome Bruner
- Singapore Maths
- Sherry Parrish (https://twitter.com/numbertalks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
- Jo Boaler
- Marilyn Burns
- Christina Tondevold
- Graham Fletcher (three act tasks for maths)
- The usefulness of mini-whiteboards
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week my guest on the programme is Claire Corroon a primary teacher and teacher educator with a particular interest in mathematics education. She has many resources on her website, Primary CPD, where she also blogs. In this, the first part of our interview, among the topics discussed are:
- How she got involved in mathematics education
- Courses she gives for teachers in summer and at evenings
- Number talks
- Concrete, pictorial and abstract representations in mathematics
- Her approach to teaching tables
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I conclude my interview with Dr. Alf Coles from the School of Education at the University of Bristol. Among the topics we discuss this week are:
- Planning for the unexpected in mathematics classes
- His work with the charity “Five by Five by Five Equals Creativity”
- Using Cuisenaire rods and a tens chart to teach mathematics
- How the number naming system in the English language makes learning mathematics more difficult and what you can do about it
- Using the tens chart to teach decimals
- How our current curriculum limits children’s understanding of number
- Creativity in primary school mathematics
- What inspires him
- Whose work in education he likes to read
- What he would change about his current institution
- How his own schooling influences his practice in education today
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Dr. Alf Coles from the University of Bristol School of Education. Among the topics discussed are:
- What teachers learn from using video
- Responding to video through description versus judgment
- Using video clubs for teacher professional development
- The centre for researching education across boundaries
- Who was Caleb Gattegno
- What is the Silent Way of learning a language
- What is an energy budget for learning?
- Four stages of awareness
- Inventing the geoboard
- Book, What we owe children by Caleb Gattegno
- How he became a teacher educator
- How he balances his teaching and research work
- How he practices teacher education
- Greg Simon’s blog: https://gregsimonmusic.com/blog/
- Gregory Bateson: https://mri.org/gregory-bateson/