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Programme 145, Walter Doyle on Learning to Teach (1-7-12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week Professor Walter Doyle, of the College of Education at the University of Arizona tells us how the ideas that student teachers learn in college become unravelled when they go into schools.

Programme 144, Walter Doyle on Classroom Management & Tasks (24-6-12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Professor Walter Doyle, of the College of Education at the University of Arizona talks about research on classroom management and about why teachers need to see themselves as task managers.

Programme 143, Dyslexia (17-6-12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme Psychologist, Dr. Erika Doyle, from the Growing Up in Ireland study, explains what dyslexia is, how it can be diagnosed and what teachers can do to support learners who have the condition. She also discusses research that she has done to try and diagnose dyslexia in children from a young age.

Programme 142, Mark Candon on Being Principal of a School Serving a Disadvantaged Area (10-6-12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme Mark Candon, who is currently on study leave from his position as principal of St. Laurence O'Toole's CBS in Dublin, discusses the targets he set himself on appointment to the position and the successes he has had and the challenges he has faced along the way. Mark is currently studying for a doctorate at Trinity College Dublin where he is studying the school.

Programme 141, Paddy Madden on Teaching in & about Summer (3-6-'12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Paddy Madden from the Marino Institute of Education talks about what teachers can do in summer time to teach with the season. He refers to harvesting from the school garden, maintaining the school garden over the summer, possible nature walks, and how to learn about mini-beasts and butterflies. You can view videos by Paddy in the Paddy's School Garden section of the Blackrock Education Centre.

Programme 140, Photovoice - a research methodology (20-5-12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme Dr. Kevin Graziano of Nevada State College discusses how the research method photovoice can be used in education, especially with those whose voices are not always heard. He was in Ireland as a guest of DICE - Development and Intercultural Education within Initial Teacher Education for whom he gave a workshop on the use of documentary photography and storytelling in the classroom.

Programme 139, Reasonable Accommodations for Students Doing State Exams (13-5-12)

Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy On this week's programme Barry spoke to Sally Maguire, resource teacher in St. Raphaela's School in Stillorgan and Vice President of the ASTI about the reasonable accommodations available to support students with disabilities taking the Leaving Certificate Examination.

Programme 138, Lisa Delpit on Educating Minority Learners (6-5-12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Professor Lisa Delpit from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and author of Multiplication is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children talks about her thoughts on raising expectations for students of colour in the United States in light of how they may help Irish educators think about educating traveller children, children from disadvantaged areas, and children whose parents were not born in Ireland.

Programme 137, Jim Spillane on leadership, policy and change in education (29-4-12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Professor Jim Spillane, from Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy in the United States, who is a graduate of St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra talks to me about organisational routines, Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life, and about how educational research could be improved in Ireland to have a greater influence on policy. Jim is the principal investigator on the Distributed Leadership research project.

Programme 136, The Origins of Children's Literature (22-4-12)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme Dr Matthew Grenby from Newcastle University told me about the origins of childhood and children's literature in the eighteenth century. He was the keynote speaker at the ninth annual conference of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature which was held on 25 and 26 February 2012. In the course of the interview Dr. Grenby referred to the Hockliffe Project website.