Articles to make you think and reflect on your current practice and the educational landscape.
I am inspired by so many people and so many things – books that I read, moments in nature that I witness on a walk, generosity of family, kindness of colleagues and friends, inspirational thoughts and speeches by other people.
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Your NQT year will be a bit of a journey, just like your training was – but by now you know that the highs will always balance out the lows. Teaching is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world!
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Hi! I’m Nadine, a newly qualified primary school teacher from Cavan. I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities degree in English and Geography and the Professional Master’s in Education (PME) (Primary), both in St. Patrick’s College, DCU. I was awarded the Vere Foster medal by the INTO in November for receiving the highest marks in teaching practices and curricular areas of education over the two year PME programme. I own ‘Múinteoir N’, which I
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I tried relentlessly for years to be one of those teachers that could get all of my planning and correcting done before leaving school. I dreamed of floating out the door, leaving a stack of corrected copies in my wake, whistling my favourite tune as I planned my evening’s activities.
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There’s no doubt but that teaching is a demanding job. There are days that feel like we are on a hamster wheel with tasks and demands flying in from all sides. A few weeks of days like this can have a very big impact on our mental wellbeing. According to the mental health support group, AWARE, depression affects about ten percent of us in Ireland. That’s about 450,000 of us. Mental Health Ireland, a national
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Here is a re-cap of our most popular blog posts of 2019. Enjoy! 1. The Not-So-Secret Diary of a Teacher – Julie Prendiville Julie is a primary School teacher (AP2 Post Holder) and CEO of Enriching Education. She is a very proud Kerry woman, living and working in Kilkenny. Julie filled us in on her typical day – early starts of 6am, blasting her Mary Black music and the importance of keeping close to family!
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We’ve all been there – at the staff meeting that could have been a post-it note or internally rolling our eyes at the latest gripe by the school moaner. Is this something that is just part of the job and we should accept it or is it something that we should inspect more critically? “Meetings are toxic” says Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson in their book ‘REWORK’. In this book, they highlight how
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Do you work with children who find it difficult to coordinate their physical selves, as well as their academic work and time management? These are the children who fall over themselves when the path is seemingly clear, manage to always be late or lost, and have hand-writing that seems below their age expectancy. In the classroom, they can have great difficulty paying attention for any length of time, are often tired or lethargic, and struggle
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Kathryn Corbett is principal in Dublin. Previous to this, she worked as a Regional Development Officer with the NIPT, and also had the role of Professional Learning Officer with the Teaching Council. She has completed a Master’s in Education in Maynooth University, and is currently in the final stages of her PhD with University of Limerick. My alarm goes off… I’ve always worked best in the morning. I like to get up early, before anyone
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In June 2019, I travelled to London to attend two days training with Ross Morrison McGill aka Teacher Toolkit. Ross is an experienced school leader, teacher trainer, most influential educational blogger in the UK, author, speaker and currently working on educational research at Cambridge. Ross is passionate about reducing teacher workload whilst increasing teacher impact. He has successfully lobbied the UK government and the inspectorate Ofsted about a number of their practices which were not
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Martin Stuart, a learning support teacher, at Talbot SNS in Dublin, wrote an insightful piece on his research surrounding homework in the January / February 2019 edition of the INTO’s Intouch magazine, titled “Homework – is it worthwhile”? He raised many interesting points, such as: There is no homework policy or practical guidance from the Department of Education and Skills. Stuart highlights how something that 97% of Irish children are doing 4 nights a week
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My thoughts on this topic occurred naturally as I was doing administrative tasks for Rahoo. I was writing to principals and deputy principals to let them know that we were offering professional development courses for teachers. I had come across figures somewhere that approximately 70% of Irish teachers were women. But I was sending the majority of my correspondence to school leaders with “Mr” as a title! It struck me as odd, given the dominance
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