How to market transferrable skills gained abroad
Liam Horan has tips for teachers returning from abroad on how to persuade principals that overseas experience is a highly valuable and transferrable asset.
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Primary Principals endure “intolerable working conditions”
Principal Angela Dunne outlines the unprecedented crisis levels of burnout and workload stress being endured by primary school principals in Ireland.
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How to tackle the Assistant Principal application form
Q: An Assistant Principal position is coming up in our school. I want to go for it. But I hear it will be a competency-based application form that could run for pages and pages – I’m not sure I’ll have the staying power for it. Have you anything to soothe my frayed nerves? DR
Read MoreCyber Security for Children and Young Adults
Children’s online safety is the child protection issue of our time. Self-regulation of companies that provide services to children online will not be sufficient.
Read MoreCelebrating Diversity
Do we believe that human diversity in all its many forms is enriching for us as a society and as individuals?
Read MoreSummer Camps at Pine Forest Art Centre
Since 1973, Pine Forest Art Centre has welcomed thousands of children and young people to its summer camps and exhibited their work to proud parents.
Read MoreTaking the plunge into Arts Education
Chris Rooney invites primary teachers to sign up their pupils for a free course in music at Dabbledoo.
Read MoreExamining PE as a Subject in Senior Cycle
The recent proposal by Minister Richard Bruton to introduce two new curriculums on a phased basis for Physical Education (PE) in senior cycle is, I believe, completely inappropriate.
Read MoreIn praise of learning outdoors
Just a few steps away from our classroom is a very rich and varied resource which can make the curriculum come alive and completely alter the learning experiences we provide for young people.
Read MoreStudent teachers’ attitudes towards teaching Religion
First ever study exploring attitudes of student teachers to teaching Religion
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