An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Research Centre report by Barry Hennessy On this programme Professor Ron Tzur from the University of Colorado Denver talks about teaching and learning maths, and discusses the importance and difficulty of counting on and multiplicative reasoning.
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney ASTI interview by Barry Hennessy On this programme Barry and I ask the three general secretaries of the teaching unions to preview their 2012 conferences. We spoke to Sheila Nunan of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, Pat King of the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland, and John MacGabhann of the Teachers Union of Ireland.
Friday Apr 06, 2012
Friday Apr 06, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Homework report by Barry Hennessy Barry spoke to Professor Pam Sammons from Jesus College Oxford on the subject of the latest findings of the Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education project, particularly with regard to homework. Professor Sammons referred to research reports and you can read them here, here and here. Seán spoke to Dr. Séamus Cannon, recently retired director of Blackrock Education Centre about how the work of the centre evolved during his time at the helm and he shares his thoughts on how teachers learn.
Monday Mar 26, 2012
Monday Mar 26, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Fred Boss talks about personal learning networks and edchatie. The interview was recorded at the CESI 2012 conference. In the first of a two-part interview, the recently retired director of Blackrock Education Centre, Dr. Séamus Cannon, discusses how he became a teacher, the influence his father - a primary teacher -had on his work, and why he likes Joyce's Ulysses.
Wednesday Mar 21, 2012
Wednesday Mar 21, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill interview by Barry Hennessy On this week's programme poet and multi-linguist Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill speaks about the benefits of learning Irish. Simon Lewis of Carlow Educate Together NS and of Anseo.Net describes how to create an app for your school using appmakr. Patrick Felicia from WIT discusses the educational potential of video games. Both Simon and Patrick presented workshops at the annual CESI conference in 2012.
Monday Mar 12, 2012
Monday Mar 12, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Report on physical activity and schools by Barry Hennessy In this programmeI spoke to Professor Emer Smyth of the Economic and Social Research Institute about two studies that were recently published by the Institute: Influences on 9-year-olds' learning: Home, school and community and The primary classroom: Insights from the 'Growing up in Ireland' study I also bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Steve Wheeler of Plymouth University who was the keynote speaker at the 2012 CESI conference. In it he speaks about online learning and virtual learning environments.
Monday Mar 05, 2012
Monday Mar 05, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Report on introducing Chinese to Irish schools by Barry Hennessy On this programme environmentalist and educator Paddy Madden discusses how teachers can mark springtime in their classes. He also bemoans the lack of biodiversity in the landscaping of newly built schools. Paddy's book, Go Wild at School has just been republished and is available directly from him. The licence for teachers to use frogspawn in their classrooms, mentioned by Paddy, is available here.
Monday Feb 27, 2012
Monday Feb 27, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Websites reviewed by Barry Hennessy In this programme I spoke to the keynote speaker at the 2012 CESI conference, Professor Steve Wheeler of Plymouth University. He blogs at Learning with E's and tweets using the handle @timbuckteeth. Barry reviewed a selection of his favourite education websites. The sites featured were Kbears, Ocean.si.edu, SFS Kids, Make Projects, Espanol Extra, and Free Rice.
Monday Feb 20, 2012
Monday Feb 20, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Census for School Report by Barry Hennessy This programme featured the second of a two-part interview with practising poet and retired primary school teacher and principal, Gabriel Fitzmaurice. Gabriel grew up in Moyvane, Co. Kerry and returned to teach there for over thirty years. He talks about how he used stories in his teaching, about how his experience as a teacher has shaped his views on education and how his teaching inspired his poetry. He reads his poem, The Teacher, from one of several collections of his poetry published by Mercier Press.
Monday Feb 13, 2012
Monday Feb 13, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Modern Languages Feature by Barry Hennessy This programme featured the first of a two-part interview with practising poet and retired primary school teacher and principal, Gabriel Fitzmaurice. Gabriel grew up in Moyvane, Co. Kerry and returned to teach there for over thirty years. He describes how primary school has changed from the time he was a primary school pupil in the 1950s and on what it is like to teach in a rural school in Ireland. He reads his poem, An Apple for the Teacher, from his collection, Really Rotten Rhymes, published by Mercier Press. Barry's guest, Tanya Flanagan who is National Coordinator, discussed the Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative.