The next month is going to be one of the toughest for any teacher looking for a job. The panels are only beginning to clear and advertisements are starting to trickle onto the recruitment web sites. Last year, approximately one thousand teachers were unable to secure positions in Ireland. While many were able to survive … Read more
Ruairí Quinn has figured out how we can improve literacy and numeracy standards in primary schools across the country. Since the PISA reports damned our education system in late 2010, a number of solutions were offered to our Minister. Many organisations suggested that we train up teachers and trainee-teachers in more modern teaching methodologies. Some … Read more
The Golden Rules have been part of many classrooms all over Ireland. Jenny Mosley has developed resource after resource to help promote positive behaviour and self esteem in primary level children. I’ve been reviewing a number of Positive Press’ products on this site. We have always been huge fans of Jenny and her work in … Read more
The Irish Times recently reported about a secondary school in Co. Mayo who have decided to offer students the opportunity to replace their textbooks with iPads. Essentially, rather than spending €450 on the schoolbooks and bringing them to school everyday in heavy schoolbags, parents can spend about €700 on an iPad with electronic versions of … Read more
I don’t usually comment on second level education on Anseo.net. However, I’m fairly open about the fact that I think the Leaving Cert is a dreadful idea. Like many others, I feel that the Leaving Cert is simply a memory exercise, where one has to – in the words of Daithí Ó’Mhurchú – regurgitate the … Read more
Mick Foley was kind enough to post us a photograph of himself with his prize from Anseo.net, a HD Flip Cam. We wish Mick the very best of luck in his teaching career as he finishes his time with Hibernia College.
Le Chéile Educate Together NS is a multi-denominational primary school based in Drogheda, Co. Louth. One of their parents asked me to have a look at their web site to give some feedback. As in the past number of articles, I must note that I am not a professional web designer. Le Chéile ETNS appears … Read more
It greatly frustrates me when I read newspapers talking about education. I don’t take notice of the usual teacher-bashing. It only slightly irks me that primary and secondary schools seemed to be lumped together as one. However, I get really annoyed when there are headline-grabbing stories about technology in education. Either it’s that Irish teachers … Read more
Research There is a huge amount of research into the area of the difficulties of people/children with sensory input; however, the area of sensory integration is being developed. Jean Miller, famed for her work in “Sensational kids” is currently working in this area. Temple Grandin is another name you may have heard of, she is … Read more
In our May edition of Anseo.net, I wrote about how I thought one could use Google Apps to support a collaborative Mental Maths project using Targetboards. I launched Targetboard.net and tried to drum up as much support for the project as possible before we began on June 7th. Thanks to the support of mailing … Read more