An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Sunday May 16, 2010
Sunday May 16, 2010
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy. In this programme Barry joins with some guests to discuss how principals, other school leaders and teachers can manage the end of the school year effectively.
Tuesday May 11, 2010
Tuesday May 11, 2010
Presented by Barry Hennessy Produced by Barry Hennessy and Seán Delaney The featured guest on the programme this week was Terry McParland from Enterprise Ireland who has specific responsibility for promoting Ireland as a destination for students from abroad. You can read more about this work at the Education Ireland website.
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. The guest on this programme was Susan M. Parkes who recently authored a book titled A Guide to Sources for the History of Irish Education 1780 - 1922. The book is published by Four Courts Press and is available in hardback and paper back from all good bookshops and from the Four Courts Press website. A competition was run on this programme for a copy of the book. The closing date for entries is 12 noon on Friday, April 30th.
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This programme features the address given by Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh from NUI Galway at the 2010 annual convention of the ASTI. In it he talks about how the language of business does not work well for education and about the role teachers can play in rebuilding trust in our society. Ruairí Quinn, Labour Party Spokesperson on education speaks about some of the educational priorities from their annual conference.
Monday Apr 12, 2010
Monday Apr 12, 2010
ASTI and INTO reports by Seán Delaney. TUI report by Barry Hennessy. This programme consists of reports from the conferences of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation and the Teachers' Union of Ireland.
Monday Apr 05, 2010
Monday Apr 05, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report by Barry Hennessy The main guest was Dr. Carmel O'Sullivan from the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin. She spoke about the collaboration between Trinity College and Aspire, the Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland. Barry spoke to Moira Leyden the Assistant General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland about the findings of the Association's recently released survey of science teaching.
Monday Mar 29, 2010
Monday Mar 29, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News report by Barry Hennessy. The guest on the programme this week was Simon Lewis of Carlow Educate Together National School. Simon talked about using technology in teaching, investing in technology for schools and about his websites www.anseo.net and www.mash.ie. He also tweets about education. During his interview Simon referred to various other websites. One is a repository of educational resources, www.seomraranga.ie. Another is the website of the Computer Education Society of Ireland and the third is the site where you can produce wordles. Barry spoke to Brian Hayes, Fine Gael spokesman on education, about the priorities for the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan, in her new brief.
Tuesday Mar 23, 2010
Tuesday Mar 23, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report by Barry Hennessy The main interview this week was with Professor Richard Bailey who was the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Irish Primary Physical Education Association in Limerick. Seán also spoke to Caitriona Cosgrave who is chairperson of the Irish Primary Physical Education Association and who lectures in Coláiste Mhuire, Marino Institute of Education. Barry spoke to Damien Bracken from Boston's Berklee College of Music about local workshops and scholarships for promising musicians.
Sunday Mar 14, 2010
Sunday Mar 14, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News reporter: Barry Hennessy On this week's programme we feature an interview with the Director of the Teaching Council, Aine Lawlor, on the work of the Council. We begin the programme with the views of a non-scientific sample of teachers we spoke to in two schools - one primary and one secondary.
Monday Mar 08, 2010
Monday Mar 08, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. This programme began with an interview with Dr. Brendan Guilfoyle of the Institute of Technology in Tralee about grade inflation. In the interview he responds to Minister O'Keeffe's response to the problem highlighted by the Network for Irish Educational Standards, of which Dr. Guilfoyle is a founding member. The feature interview was with Maurice McMahon about his book Mr. Mac: A Blackboard Memoir on his life as a teacher in St. Benildus College in South Dublin. It is the first memoir about secondary teaching written by an Irish teacher. In it he talks about teaching Irish, teaching history, what makes a good teacher, how students have changed and about his father, the well-known writer and teacher Bryan McMahon. The book costs €15 and can only be ordered directly from Maurice McMahon at his e-mail mrmacbenildus@gmail.com.