Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

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 w...

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...

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...

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...

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 item...

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 ap...

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 interes...

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 qualificati...

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.lerareno...

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...

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...

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...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney esented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. Gerry Jeffers, author of Transition Year in Action , which was published by The Liffey Press . In the interview he discusses several topics including how he would redesign transition year if he could based on his vast experience as a teacher, gu...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I bring you the first of a two-part interview with Dr. Gerry Jeffers, author of Transition Year in Action , which was published by The Liffey Press . In the interview he talks about the purpose and history of transition year and illustrates it with anecdotes from his vast experience as a teacher, guidance counsellor, deputy principal...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this programme I mark the launch of my new book Become the Primary Teacher Everyone Wants to Have: A Guide to Career Success by sharing ten lessons I've learned about teaching. The book is published by Routledge and a discount is available on the Routledge website by entering the code FLR40 at Checkout.*       *The offer cannot be used in conjunction with...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.   On this week's programme my guest is Professor Pam Grossman who is Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania . The opportunity came about to interview Professor Grossman when she gave a keynote address to the annual conference of the Association for Teacher Education of Europe . Professor Grossman was previously a guest on...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I speak to Annette Honan from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment about the new Leaving Certificate subject, Politcs and Society .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with SIobhán Keenan Fitzgerald, the principal of Eglish National School in Galway. In this part of the interview Siobhán talks about how as principal she introduced the public speaking programme she developed, LET'S STAND , in the school, how she uses video examples of public speaking in her...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney My guest on this week's programme is Siobhán Keenan Fitzgerald who developed the Let's Stand programme to teach public speaking to children. In the programme Siobhán outlines the difference between public speaking and debating, she tells the story of how a presentation she gave in Japanese to a group of Japanese tea-ladies reinforced for her the power of publ...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney My guest on the programme this week is Georgeta Ion . Originally from Romania, Georgeta is a lecturer in the Department of Applied Pedagogy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona .

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme the distinguished Educational Psychologist, Professor David C Berliner , who is Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University , shares more of his ideas and reflections about education. Among the topics he discusses this week are assessment literacy, the instructional sensitivity of tests, why he would hesitate in using inte...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme my guest is David C. Berliner who is Regents' Professor of Education Emeritus at Arizona State University . Among the topics we discussed were co-authoring Educational Psychology with Nathaniel Gage, how he stumbled into the field of educational psychology, his views on what psychology contributes to the education of a teacher, how h...