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Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you an interview I conducted with Stanford University Graduate School of Education Professor, Hilda Borko. Among the topics we discuss are the following: Summer schools for children in the United States Professional Development for science teachers Argumentation in science lessons How she uses video in professional development Work she is most proud of in education to date Key ingredients of professional development for teachers How she chose a career in education How she started a school when she was a graduate student

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with members of the Mulcahy family who are originally from Cork but who are now working as education professors in the United States. Donal G Mulcahy and Cara Mulcahy are in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Central Connecticut State University. Donal E Mulcahy is a professor and Director of Elementary Education in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. Among the topics we discussed in this part of the interview are the following: Donal G's career trajectory Comparing features of the US and Irish education systems The establishment of the Education Studies Association of Ireland Diane Ravitch and her influence in US education What constitutes a liberal education? Having faith in teachers Sources of Inspiration

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I interview three members of the Mulcahy family who are originally from Cork but who all work as education professors in the United States. The father, Donal G. Mulcahy, and daughter, Cara Mulcahy both work in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Central Connecticut State University and Cara's brother, Donal E. Mulcahy is a professor and Director of Elementary Education in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. They each addressed the 2017 annual confernece of the Education Studies Association of Ireland, of which Donal G. was a founding member. Among the points raised on the programme are: The purpose of Education Control of education and the role of teachers, policymakers, administrators, foundations and corporations The workshop approach to teaching reading and writing 18’26” Authors referred to include Lucy Calkins, author of The Art of Teaching Writing; Linda Rief, author of Seeking Diversity: Language Arts w

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Jacinta Kitt to mark the publication of her book, Positive Behaviours, Relationships and Emotions: The Heart of Leadership in a School by the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals. Among the topics we discussed in this part of the interview wiere the following: Cooperative learning Democratic relationships between teachers and students Managing your emotions in teaching and leading Preventing workplace bullying in teaching

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.   On this week's programme I speak to Jacinta Kitt to mark the publication of her new book Positive Behaviours, Relations and Emotions: The Heart of Leadership in a School published by the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Kathy Short from the College of Education at the University of Arizona. In this programme she talks about how she became interested in inquiry-based learning, the Worlds of Words initiative she established and about being on the award committee for the Caldecott Medal. She was in Ireland to address the Symposium on Inquiry Based Learning organised by the Marino Institute of Education to mark the launch of a new masters degree in inquiry-based learning being offered in the Marino Institute of Education. 

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to Professor Kathy Short from the University of Arizona College of Education. She was in Ireland to address the Symposium on Inquiry Based Learning organised by the Marino Institute of Education to mark the launch of a new masters degree in inquiry-based learning being offered in the Marino Institute of Education.  Among the topics discussed on the programme are: Inquiry as a stance in education How teachers can nurture inquiry among children The inquiry cycle (Connection, invitations, tensions, investigation, representations, new questions) Applying the inquiry cycle with pre-service teachers Inquiry-based learning in classrooms

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. This week I speak to Dr. Brian Fleming, a retired school principal and author of Irish Education 1922 - 2007: Cherishing all the Children? Among the topics discussed during our conversation were the following: Who he spoke to in writing the book Where the power lies in education today What can be done to reduce inequality in education How the insertion of a single word, “for” in the Irish Constitution shaped the government’s role in education Provision for reducing disadvantage in the 1998 Education Act

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. This week I speak to education consultant and Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts, Dr. Katie Novak, on the topic of Universal Design for Learning. She was in Ireland to give the keynote presentation at the 2017 Conference of AHEAD, the Association for Higher Education Access and Disability in Dublin. Among the topics we discuss are:   What is universal design for learning? How might universal design for learning be applied in teaching English? What is the difference between differentiated instruction and universal design for learning? Why students need to fail in the short-term to find long term success. What skills taught in school do we need to hold onto and what can be safely let go?   Katie refers to the book, The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I am joined by Professor Akihiko Takahashi from the College of Education at De Paul University who talks about the teaching of mathematics, about Lesson Study as a form of professional development for teachers and other matters. I spoke with Professor Takahashi after he addressed an event hosted by the UCD Japan Group. Among the items we discussed were the following: Why learn mathematics? How do children learn to solve problems? What is lesson study? Why in Japan lunch is considered to be an opportunity for teaching How lesson study helps teachers to grow Why collaboration is the foundation to being an effective teacher Why live classroom observation is better than observing teaching on video How the Japanese learn from other cultures Are teachers born or made?

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme cartoonist and retired art teacher, John Brennan, talks about making the transition from primary teaching to teaching art at post-primary level. He taught art for several years in Ard Scoil La Salle in Raheny.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to a retired secondary school art teacher who initially trained as a primary teacher in the early 1960's. John Brennan talks about his own education and his time as a teacher. He is a cartoonist and has created thousands of cartoons for newspapers and magazines.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's progrmame I bring you new material from three guests who previously appeared on the programme. Below I list the guests and put links to the programmes on which they featured: Jackie Marsh Annette Honan Siobhán Keenan Fitzgerald on Public Speaking 1 and Public Speaking 2

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.   This week I bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Janette Bobis from the University of Sydney where she is Professor of Mathematics Education and Research Director for the Sydney School of Education and Social Work. The topics discussed on the programme include the following: How student feedback influences her work A practice based approach to teacher education Her role as Director of Research Using writing retreats to promote academic writing Incentives for doing research A specialist qualification in mathematics for primary teachers Who inspires her Her favourite writer on education Research Excellence Framework

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. This week I speak to Professor Janette Bobis from the University of Sydney where she is Professor of Mathematics Education and Research Director for the Sydney School of Education and Social Work. During the interview we discuss the following topics: Student engagement in mathematics Motivating children to be interested in mathematics How she became interested in mathematics education What research teaches us about how children learn mathematics Her approach to educating future teachers In the course of the interview she referred to videos about teaching that are available from the University of Washington's website. Here is a link to those videos: http://tedd.org/mathematics/  (and not the ones I initially thought: https://www.youtube.com/user/uwcoe/videos).

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Marco Snoek from the Netherlands about teacher education. In this part of our discussion we talk about  Boundary crossing between school and university. Boundary crossing between principal and teachers within a school Competence-based teacher education The three goals of qualification, socialisation and subjectification in education as articulated by Gert Biesta: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/gert-biesta and http://www.gertbiesta.com/. Practice in teacher education – referring to the work of Pam Grossman Teacher supply and the status of teaching What inspires him I also bring you a clip from my recent interview with Professor Pam Grossman, which I could not fit into that programme. Finally, I bring you a clip from David Berliner where he talks about self esteem and education. Again, I was unable to fit this into interview 1 or interview 2 with David Berliner that were broadcast in 2016.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Marco Snoek from Hogeschool van Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Dr. Snoek is an expert on Teacher Education and in the course of our interview the following matters are discussed:   His studies in physics and how they influence his work as a teacher educator The association of Dutch Teacher Educators. http://www.lerarenopleider.nl/velon/ The abrupt change from being a student teacher to being a teacher with full responsibilities The isolation of teachers Problems with the structure of teaching as a career and the place of professional development. School culture and the role of leadership (not just the principal) within the school How research and practice can interact in the teaching profession. What he would change in his current institution.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Eric Clinton from DCU Business School. In the course of the interview we discuss the following topics: Entrepreneurship education Module design Social entrepreneurship Lessons learned from earning a black belt in Taekwondo and coaching the art The privilege of education During our conversation Eric recommended the book Blue Ocean Strategy.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Pip Bruce Ferguson. Pip works at the Teaching Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University. This part of our conversation covered the following topics: Changing the research culture of a higher education institution Action research The network of educational action research Ireland. What counts as research? During our conversation Pip referred to the following websites: http://tekotahitanga.tki.org.nz/About http://www.eari.ie/

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak with Dr. Pip Bruce Ferguson who works in Dublin City University's Teaching Enhancement Unit. In a wide-ranging discussion we cover the following topics: Why she found primary teaching difficult Self development through her career The influence of Paolo Freire on her thinking Applying Freire to education How she got involved in staff development at university level How the process of staff development works The flipped classroom I'll bring you the second part of my interview with Pip on next week's programme.