An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Monday Oct 04, 2010
Monday Oct 04, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy In this interview Sr. Freda Kenny, who is based in the Marino Institute of Education, describes her work as a teacher leader for Reading Recovery. This is an intervention developed by Marie Clay to support young learners in learning to read.
Monday Sep 27, 2010
Monday Sep 27, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In this programme David Shenk talks to us about his latest book The Genius in All of Us. It describes how our genes interact with our environment to influence our potential.
Friday Sep 24, 2010
Friday Sep 24, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Textbook interview by Barry Hennessy This was a busy programme. It featured items on the ASTI decision to defer their industrial action, a publisher of cheap textbooks, the experience of chartered teachers in Scotland, and an educational opportunity at the National College of Ireland for jobseekers.
Tuesday Sep 07, 2010
Tuesday Sep 07, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The guest on this week's programme is Tony Finn who is CEO of the General Teaching Council for Scotland. He talks about the work of the Council which was established in the mid 1960's.
Tuesday Aug 31, 2010
Tuesday Aug 31, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report by Barry Hennessy The guests on the programme were Áine Lynch, CEO of the National Parents' Council, Pat Goff, President of the Irish Primary Principals' Network, Seán Ó Dubhlaing who is a member of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation and an experienced teacher of multi-grade classes.
Tuesday Aug 24, 2010
Tuesday Aug 24, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. You can choose the statistics about leaving certificate results that you want to view for yourself here. I compared failure rates and A grades in maths with those in modern languages, business studies and the arts. The guests on this week's programme were Mr. Noel Kelly who is the Manager of "Preparing for Life" intervention with the Northside Partnership. Dr. Orla Doyle is a senior researcher at University College Dublin's Geary Institute. Barry presented and produced "The View from Here" and his guest this week was Tony Donoghue of IBEC.
Friday Aug 20, 2010
Friday Aug 20, 2010
Programme presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week's guest was Dr. Marie Bourke who is Keeper and Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland. View from Here presented and produced by Barry Hennessy Barry Spoke to Pat King who is General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland.
Tuesday Aug 10, 2010
Tuesday Aug 10, 2010
Programme presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week's guest was Dr. Marie Bourke who is Keeper and Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland. View from Here presented and produced by Barry Hennessy Barry spoke to Professor Brian Mac Craith who is President of Dublin City University.
Sunday Aug 01, 2010
Sunday Aug 01, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News round-up by Barry Hennessy Barry interviewed Michael Moriarty from the Irish Vocational Education Association. Alicia McGivern who is Head of Education at the Irish Film Institute was interviewed on the programme about her work.
Tuesday Jul 27, 2010
Tuesday Jul 27, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The guest on the programme was John Heffernan from the National Centre for Technology in Education. John is a qualified history teacher and a member of the Computer Education Society of Ireland Executive.