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Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I previewed two conferences that have a healthy following each year. The Irish Primary PE Assocation (IPPEA) is shortly having its tenth annual conference in St. Patrick's College and the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) is having its fortieth annual conference at GMIT . Caitriona Cosgrave from St. Colmcille's Junior N...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Dr. Joe O'Connell of Limerick Education Centre discusses how to manage challenging behaviour among adults in schools: principals, teachers and parents. The interview is based on a talk he gave at the annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network in January 2013.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to James Whelton , co-founder with Bill Liao of CoderDojo . I then visited the Kilkenny dojo and spoke to some local mentors and participants ranging in age from 8 to 18.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In the second of a two-part interview, retired principal of Scoil Chiaráin , and teacher educator, Éamon Ó Murchu reflects on his career as a school leader at a pioneering time for special education provision in Ireland.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the first part of a two-part interview with retired Principal of Scoil Chiaráin Special School , Glasnevin, Éamonn Ó Murchu. On this week's programme Éamonn discusses his own primary schooling, the influence his teacher and mentor, Bryan MacMahon, had on him and on time he spent teaching in Zimbabwe.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to some students at the BT Young Sciensts who studied topics related to education. I spoke to Carl O'Dowd, Matthew Kavanagh and Richard Hughes from the Cistercian College in Roscrea . I spoke to Kevin Martin, Brian Glennon and Donal Lowry from Summerhill College in Sligo. I spoke to Rhona Lonergan, Amy O'Donoghue and Sarah Mur...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Paddy Madden spoke to us about teaching Social, Environmental, and Scientific Education (SESE) in wintertime. This programme completes a series of four interviews with Paddy on teaching SESE across the seasons. In this programme Paddy referred to three websites: InTouch , the publication of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation ,...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to Dr. Eemer Eivers, research fellow, and Aidan Clerkin, research associate, at the Educational Research Centre at St. Patrick's College about the performance of Irish fourth class children on the PIRLS and TIMSS tests . In the tests Irish children's performance on reading, maths and science was compared with the performance o...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Professor Deborah Loewenberg Ball , who is Dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan and Director of Teaching Works talks about her research on teacher education. She also shares her impression of Irish education and tells us what the current hot topics are in U.S. education. She was in Ireland as a guest of the Ma...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I continue my discussion with Síle Ní Fhearáin, a recently retired post-primary school teacher. Síle uses a pastoral care perspective to reflect on matters related to school attendance, discipline and suspension as a sanction for misbehaviour. During the interview Síle refers to a report, Discipline in Schools, written by Dr. Maeve Ma...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Síle Ní Fhearáin discusses how she became a teacher, her time in Belcamp College and the experience of moving to Pobalscoil Neasáin after 33 years teaching in Belcamp College. She also discusses the teaching of Irish. Next week I'll speak to Síle about attendance and discipline.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Professor Margaret M. Clark , who was in Ireland as a guest of the Reading Association of Ireland , discusses topics including literacy, research and early years education.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme we marked this year's Kilkenomics festival and considered the topic of economics teaching by speaking first to economist David McWilliams . This was followed up by an interview with teacher Derek Lynch, who is the honorary secretary of the Business Studies Teachers' Association of Ireland .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In this week's programme Professor Jo Boaler from Stanford University discusses the teaching of mathematics. She was in Ireland earlier this year as a guest of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. She recommended the NRICH website as a source of maths problems.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme I continued my seasonal coverage of teaching social, environmental and scientific education in the primary school with teacher, teacher educator and environmentalist, Paddy Madden. During the interview Paddy referred to the section about " Paddy's School Garden " on the Blackrock Education Centre website.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme, Professor Colum Kenny from DCU 's School of Communications talks about the need for our education system to be more responsive to the needs of young people.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Valerie O'Dowd from the Marino Institute of Education talks about the videos she made with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment showing how parents can help their child with mathematics. You can view the videos and tip-sheets here and here . Professor Margaret Clark , from Newman University College, Birmingham , who was...

On this programme I spoke to Dr. Frank Serafini , from Arizona State University about learning to read multi-modal texts, about reading workshops, about assessment of comprehension, and about why children learn to read. He was a keynote speaker at the 36th annual conference of the Reading Association of Ireland , which took place in Marino Institute of Education in September. Presented and produce...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This week Professor Walter Doyle , of the College of Education at the University of Arizona tells us how the ideas that student teachers learn in college become unravelled when they go into schools.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Professor Walter Doyle , of the College of Education at the University of Arizona talks about research on classroom management and about why teachers need to see themselves as task managers.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme Psychologist, Dr. Erika Doyle , from the Growing Up in Ireland study, explains what dyslexia is, how it can be diagnosed and what teachers can do to support learners who have the condition. She also discusses research that she has done to try and diagnose dyslexia in children from a young age.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme Mark Candon, who is currently on study leave from his position as principal of St. Laurence O'Toole's CBS in Dublin, discusses the targets he set himself on appointment to the position and the successes he has had and the challenges he has faced along the way. Mark is currently studying for a doctorate at Trinity College Dublin where...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Paddy Madden from the Marino Institute of Education talks about what teachers can do in summer time to teach with the season. He refers to harvesting from the school garden, maintaining the school garden over the summer, possible nature walks, and how to learn about mini-beasts and butterflies. You can view videos by Paddy in the Padd...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme Dr. Kevin Graziano of Nevada State College discusses how the research method photovoice can be used in education, especially with those whose voices are not always heard. He was in Ireland as a guest of DICE - Development and Intercultural Education within Initial Teacher Education for whom he gave a workshop on the use of documentar...

Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy On this week's programme Barry spoke to Sally Maguire, resource teacher in St. Raphaela's School in Stillorgan and Vice President of the ASTI about the reasonable accommodations available to support students with disabilities taking the Leaving Certificate Examination.