Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

By Sean Delaney

An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching... more

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The podcast currently has 318 episodes available.

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March 14, 2018Programme 319, Pamela O’Brien at CESI (14-3-18)
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to lecturer in mathematics and programming at LIT (Tipperary Campus), Pamela O'Brien. Among the topics we discuss are:
Her workshop on “Breakoutedu”

Her job at LIT – Tipperary Campus

The ICT in Education Conference

The difference between coding and computer science

Transitions she made from working in insurance to lecturing and from mathematics to computer science

How teachers can become more involved in coding

Who inspires her

Why she likes EDCHATIE
...more
28min
February 28, 2018Programme 318, Claire Corroon on Teaching Maths, pt 2 (28-2-18)
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with primary teacher and mathematics teacher educator, Claire Corroon. You can access resources and opinions about mathematics teaching on her website, Primary CPD. Among the topics we discuss this week are the following:
Her Views on Curriculum Revision in primary mathematics
Differentiation in mathematics
Assessment in mathematics
Mathematics curricula in other countries
Jerome Bruner
Singapore Maths
Sherry Parrish (https://twitter.com/numbertalks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Jo Boaler
Marilyn Burns
Christina Tondevold
Graham Fletcher (three act tasks for maths)
The usefulness of mini-whiteboards
...more
28min
February 21, 2018Programme 317, Claire Corroon on Teaching Maths (21-2-18)
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week my guest on the programme is Claire Corroon a primary teacher and teacher educator with a particular interest in mathematics education. She has many resources on her website, Primary CPD, where she also blogs. In this, the first part of our interview, among the topics discussed are:
How she got involved in mathematics education
Courses she gives for teachers in summer and at evenings
Number talks
Concrete, pictorial and abstract representations in mathematics
Her approach to teaching tables
...more
28min
February 14, 2018Programme 316, Alf Coles, part 2 (14-2-18)
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week I conclude my interview with Dr. Alf Coles from the School of Education at the University of Bristol. Among the topics we discuss this week are:
Planning for the unexpected in mathematics classes
His work with the charity “Five by Five by Five Equals Creativity”
Using Cuisenaire rods and a tens chart to teach mathematics
How the number naming system in the English language makes learning mathematics more difficult and what you can do about it
Using the tens chart to teach decimals
How our current curriculum limits children’s understanding of number
Creativity in primary school mathematics
What inspires him
Whose work in education he likes to read
What he would change about his current institution
How his own schooling influences his practice in education today
...more
28min
February 07, 2018Programme 315, Teachers Learning from Video and the work of Caleb Gattegno (7-2-18)
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Dr. Alf Coles from the University of Bristol School of Education. Among the topics discussed are:
What teachers learn from using video
Responding to video through description versus judgment
Using video clubs for teacher professional development
The centre for researching education across boundaries
Who was Caleb Gattegno
What is the Silent Way of learning a language
What is an energy budget for learning?
Four stages of awareness
Inventing the geoboard
Book, What we owe children by Caleb Gattegno
How he became a teacher educator
How he balances his teaching and research work
How he practices teacher education
Greg Simon’s blog: https://gregsimonmusic.com/blog/
Gregory Bateson: https://mri.org/gregory-bateson/
...more
28min
January 31, 2018Programme 314, Páiric Clerkin & IPPN, pt 2
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Páiríc Clerkin, the Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Primary Principals' Network (IPPN). In this part of the interview our conversation covers topics such as:
What the IPPN does
How he finds the role of CEO of the IPPN
What teachers should think about before applying for roles as principal or deputy principal
How will job of principal be different in ten years’ time to what it is today
What inspires him
What he likes to read/listen to
Changes he’d make in the IPPN
The five minute bench break
How his own education influences his work as an educator
...more
29min
January 24, 2018Programme 313, Páiric Clerkin & IPPN, pt 1 (24-1-18)
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
...more
28min
January 17, 2018Programme 312, Gerry O'Connell on Religious Education, pt 2 (17-1-18)
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 about it?)
Pushing back the horizon
Concluding ritual
...more
28min
January 17, 2018Programme 312, Gerry O’Connell on Religious Education, pt 2 (17-1-18)
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 about it?)

Pushing back the horizon

Concluding ritual
...more
28min
January 10, 2018Programme 311, Gerry O'Connell on Religious Education (10-1-18)
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
...more
28min

FAQs about Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching:

How many episodes does Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching have?

The podcast currently has 318 episodes available.