I’ve probably shown this on this blog before but it’s easily my favourite education cartoon. As well as being funny, the message of it is deadly serious and all teachers need to think about the way we are teaching. 21st … Read on…

Emotional Self awareness and the primary school curriculum

In my last post on emotional self awareness, I defined what it means to be emotionally self aware. It may seem a simple defintion but there is a lot more to this … Read on…

Self actualisation, the SPHE curriculum and learning

I have defined what emotional intelligence is and why it is so important for us. I have focused in on the first competency of the EI framework, self-actualisation.

We have noted Maslow’s theory of motivation … Read on…

Review: Cloze:Interactive solution for teaching cloze skills-Prim-Ed

Cloze is a CD-ROM developed by Prim-Ed for doing exactly what the title above says! It is a simple and clean-visual to use.

There are three options for the child and teacher once … Read on…

I am in a writing group and we often debate various pieces of grammar. From now on, I am going to bring Prim-Ed’s essential grammar sheets along! That will settle things easily!

The Prim-Ed Essentials study guides are made up … Read on…

Review:My Spelling workbook (PrimEd)

This set of books was always going to be more challenging for me to review! Many years ago, a good teacher friend of mine introduced me to the work of Brendan Culligan. Brendan lectures in English … Read on…

Every December, we look back on the year and remember some of the highs and lows and celebrate some of the successes of Irish teachers. This year was a fairly difficult year for teachers in Ireland with a number of … Read on…

There was something that grated on me when I saw the highly retweeted soundbite from John Couch, the Apple VP for Education, recently. He said, 

I’ll admit, it’s a brilliant thing to say. In fact, he might really mean it. … Read on…