Providing teachers with the opportunity to work with student teachers while also progressing their own studies, is at the heart of the Teacher Fellowship Programme.

It is a unique programme offered by DCU and the second group of teachers began their fellowship a few months ago.

Louise is joined by two of them – primary school teacher Emma Farragher and secondary school teacher Niall Farrell.

They tell her why they applied for the fellowship, what they enjoy about it and what they will take from it back to their classrooms.