An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Oct 26, 2010
Oct 26, 2010
22 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney The main guest on the programme was Steve Humble, aka Dr. Maths from the National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics. He shared with listeners a maths problem to solve. Barry Hennessy spoke to Peter Mullan from the Irish National Teachers' Organisation about the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010 and allowing non-teachers to be employed as teachers in schools.
Oct 26, 2010
Oct 26, 2010
28 min
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy The main guest on the programme was Ms. Dipti Pandya, the Director of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Barry interviewed Larry Fleming from the Irish Primary Principals' Network about the place of homework in children's education at primary school.
Oct 11, 2010
Oct 11, 2010
27 min
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The special guest on this programme was Professor Timothy Shanahan from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was in Ireland as a guest of Young Ballymun and he presented a keynote address at the Reading Association of Ireland's Annual Conference.
Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010
27 min
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.
Sep 27, 2010
Sep 27, 2010
28 min
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.
Sep 24, 2010
Sep 24, 2010
28 min
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.
Sep 7, 2010
Sep 7, 2010
27 min
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.
Aug 31, 2010
Aug 31, 2010
28 min
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.
Aug 24, 2010
Aug 24, 2010
27 min
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.
Aug 20, 2010
Aug 20, 2010
28 min
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.