An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Monday Mar 04, 2013
Monday Mar 04, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to Anne White from the NCCA about plans for technology courses for the new Junior Cycle programme, to Damien Quinn from seomraranga.com and to Steven Daly from Camara Ireland. All three interviews took place at the annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) 2013.
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 Feb 17, 2013
Sunday Feb 17, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I previewed two conferences that have a healthy following each year. The Irish Primary PE Assocation (IPPEA) is shortly having its tenth annual conference in St. Patrick's College and the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) is having its fortieth annual conference at GMIT. Caitriona Cosgrave from St. Colmcille's Junior National School and representing the IPPEA and Anne McMorrough from the Marino Institute of Education and representing CESI told me about the conferences and shared some of their own thoughts on the respective topics.
Sunday Feb 10, 2013
Sunday Feb 10, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Dr. Joe O'Connell of Limerick Education Centre discusses how to manage challenging behaviour among adults in schools: principals, teachers and parents. The interview is based on a talk he gave at the annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network in January 2013.
Sunday Feb 03, 2013
Sunday Feb 03, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to James Whelton, co-founder with Bill Liao of CoderDojo. I then visited the Kilkenny dojo and spoke to some local mentors and participants ranging in age from 8 to 18.
Sunday Jan 27, 2013
Sunday Jan 27, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In the second of a two-part interview, retired principal of Scoil Chiaráin, and teacher educator, Éamon Ó Murchu reflects on his career as a school leader at a pioneering time for special education provision in Ireland.
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 13, 2013
Sunday Jan 13, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to some students at the BT Young Sciensts who studied topics related to education. I spoke to Carl O'Dowd, Matthew Kavanagh and Richard Hughes from the Cistercian College in Roscrea. I spoke to Kevin Martin, Brian Glennon and Donal Lowry from Summerhill College in Sligo. I spoke to Rhona Lonergan, Amy O'Donoghue and Sarah Murray from St. Andrew's College in Booterstown. Finally, I spoke to Orla Tyrell, Michelle Healy and Anna Forde and to their teacher Crona McCarthy from Pobalscoil na Tríonóide in Youghal.
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.