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Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I look ahead to the 2018 annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network with the Chief Executive Officer of the Network, Páiric Clerkin. Among the topics we discuss are: Priorities for principals at this time School funding Droichead What to expect at the IPPN Conference

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Gerry O'Connell from the Marino Institute of Education where we talk about religious education and much more. Among the topics discussed this week are the following: Prayer and religious education and how mindfulness was introduced to Catholic schools over two decades ago The power of prayer and mindfulness How do you define a practising Catholic if not by their attendance at church? The problem with large class sizes How to develop one’s religious imagination Integrating religious education with other subjects Accommodating children who don’t take religious education in a religious school How do prospective teachers learn to teach religion? Dr. Gerry O’Connel outlines seven elements that are key to his approach: Waiting and wondering The threshold experience Asking the question Gathering around the subject Journalling ( What did I learn? What does it say to where I am? What am I going to do

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney   On this week's programme I speak to my colleague in the Marino Institute of Education, Dr. Gerry O'Connell about religious education. Gerry is a primary teacher and a teacher educator with vast experience and his ideas are grounded in this experience and in his scholarly work in the field. Among the topics discussed this week are the following: The difference between teaching religion and religious education The importance of starting with the students’ experiences The challenges of working with diverse student experiences The teaching methodology “Godly Play” Social media as a force of oppression Why contemplative space, depth of conversation or wonder and symbol or story are central to religious education Whether sacraments should be taught in school or in parishes What makes a teacher? Teaching as a vocation A perceived secularist agenda in some media organisations

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I am joined once again by philosopher and retired primary school teacher, John Doyle. In the interview, John reflects on the role of questions in teaching.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you the third and final part of my interview with David Didau, author of What if Everything You Knew about Education Was Wrong? Among the people and websites referred to in this part of our discussion are the following: The Neuroscience of Intelligence by Richard J Haier How to Teach by Phil Beadle Dylan William Dan Willingham Doug Lemov Rob Coe My second guest this week is Jane Shimizu who is a primary teacher in a DEIS school in county Galway. For many years she kept a busy classroom blog and current updates are on the school website. As part of her discussion on science week, she mentioned the website www.rokit.com.    

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I welcome back a guest who was on the programme before, Brendan Culligan. Brendan was a keynote speaker at the 2017 annual conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. His presentation was titled “More than one hundred and twenty five years of Crushing ‘Garlic’!" - in which he honours the memory of an educator who had insightful ideas about teaching spelling.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week I bring you the second part of my interview with writer, blogger, speaker, trainer and former English teacher David Didau. We focus particularly on his book, What if everything you knew about education was wrong? Among the topics discussed are the following: How teachers can use research Why less feedback is more Carol Dweck’s research on mindsets The difficulties in telling if what children learn is retained or transferable Why a sat-nav is the perfect “assessment for learning machine” The illusion of knowledge Assessment for learning Why testing should be rebranded as quizzing Why differentiation is a “dark art”

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to David Didau, who is also known as "The Learning Spy." I wanted to find out more about his book, What if everything you knew about education was wrong? Among the topics discussed on the programme with David are the following: Opportunity costs in teaching Choices teachers make Criticism of the teacher education he received Who he trusts on questions about education How teachers are acquiring incorrect information about education The lack of evidence behind learning styles and educational outcome On next week's programme I'll bring you the second part of my interview with David.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I spoke to three people who presented workshops at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. They were Claire Dunne from the Marino Institute of Education, Damien Quinn from seomraranga.com and Anne Burke from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Among the websites mentioned on the programme were: Children's Literature Association of Ireland http://bookcentre.ca/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586750-bully Kidblog software Animoto    

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme Ciarán Gray from North Bay Educate Together National School and Company B talks about his own interest in dance and shares some of his thoughts on primary teaching.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme primary school teacher Ciarán Gray talks about dance education and about Company B, the dance company he set up for young males. Ciarán teaches in North Bay Educate Together National School.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to a young researcher, Craig Skerritt, who works in the Centre for Evaluation, Quality and Inspection, Dublin City University. We discuss how the work of Basil Bernstein can shed a light on educating students in schools serving areas designated as disadvantaged. We also learn about Craig's experience of teaching in England.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. My guest on this week's programme is Laureate na nÓg, PJ Lynch, who is also an award-winning illustrator and author. I spoke to him on the occasion of his giving the keynote address at the 41st Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland, which held its conference in Marino Institute of Education on October 5 and 6 this year. During the interview Pj Lynch referred to many children's illustrators and authors, including:Louise O'Neill, Derek Landy, Eoin Colfer, E.R. Murray, Matt Griffin, Nicola Pierce, Mo Willems, Lisbeth Zwerger, Sandy Turner, Oliver Jeffers, Chris Haughton, Niamh Sharkey and Marie Louise Fitzpatrick. He also mentioned the book, Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Sandra Austin from the Marino Institute of Education on garden-based learning.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week I speak to scientist, horticulturalist, and educator Dr. Sandra Austin about her research on school gardens. Sandra Austin lectures in social, environmental, and scientific education in the Marino Institute of Education.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme philosopher and retired primary school teacher, John Doyle, explores his relationship to the Irish language. It's a complicated picture but one that he attempts to portray because it informs his teaching of the language. He considers such excavation for teaching as being like the preparation a boxer does in the gym before stepping into a boxing ring for a fight. The essay is abridged in order to fit in the 30-minute duration of the radio programme.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme, philosopher and retired primary school teacher, John Doyle, reflects on teaching. First he uses the boxing ring as a metaphor for the classroom and preparation for teaching is like the time spent in a gym. Later in the programme he answers questions on books that influenced his teaching and advice for a beginning teacher. John taught for several years in St. Brigid's National School in Castleknock; I first met him when I was placed as a student teacher in his class in the mid 1980s. 

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I continue my interview with Dr. Michael Flannery from the Marino Institute of Education about the teaching of visual arts. We spoke to mark the launch of the new Master's in Education Studies course in the Visual Arts offered by the Institute. Among the topics we covered in this part of the interview were the following: The kind of art he likes Do you have to be good at the visual arts to teach it well? The role of specialists in visual arts education Incorporating imagination, integration and innovation into a teacher education course Bringing children to work on visual arts using the college facilities The new Master’s course in visual arts offered by Marino Institute of Education The benefits of slowing down

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Michael Flannery from the Marino Institute of Education about the teaching of visual arts. We spoke to mark the launch of the new Master's in Education Studies course in the Visual Arts offered by the Institute. Among the topics we covered in this part of the interview were the following: How he became interested in the visual arts Benefits for children in learning visual arts Stages in producing visual art Starting points for visual art lessons Introducing children to genres or kinds of art that are often neglected Stages of development in learning art Using art to mark significant events in the school year Assessment in the visual arts

Presented and Produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you interview sections from previous guests which did not fit into the space available in the original programmes. First we hear Stanford University Professor of Education, Hilda Borko who talks about how she does her research. Then Dr. Katie Novak discusses the challenges and opportunities involved in applying Universal Design for Learning principles. Finally, Professor Akihiko Takahashi from De Paul University presents a Japanese perspective on mathematics teaching and on education more generally. The programmes they orginally featured on are here: Hilda Borko Katie Novak Akihiko Takahashi