This month, the first collection of creative writing from CTYI(Centre for Talented Youth, Ireland) is published. The anthology, Words To Tie To Bricks, was put together in an intensive writing workshop that took part during the 2013 summer programme and includes a range of poetry, prose and drama from fifteen teenage […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
On Monday 23rd September, Fred Boss (@FBoss) kindly allowed me to take over #edchatie for a Twitter chat to mark Gifted Education Awareness Week 2013. #edchatie is a weekly chat on issues of interest to teachers and other educators. You can view past #edchatie chats here. #edchatie attracts a wide […]
#edchatie ‘Challenging Gifted Children in the mixed-ability classroom’
As plans come together for this year’s Gifted Education Awareness Week, here is a quick review of last year’s GEAW thanks to Dazzled and Frazzled’s blog. This year’s GEAW plans will move Gifted awareness further along the road. New parents support groups have formed thanks to GTNetwork Ireland, there […]
Gifted Education Awareness Week – Looking Back to Look Forward
The 3rd Gifted Education Awareness Week in Ireland runs from Monday 22nd to Friday 28th September 2013. Gifted Education Awareness Week is an initiative of Gifted and Talented Ireland and is promoted through this site and Gifted and Talented Network Ireland. The aim of Gifted Education Awareness Week is to raise awareness […]
Gifted Education Awareness Week 2013
The recent case of a divorcing couple has garnered some attention because of an unusual ruling which a High Court judge had to make in the case. In his judgement, Justice Hogan ruled that a 12 year old boy should attend a private school. (disclaimer: I teach in a fee-charging school) […]
Are Gifted Children Better Off in Private Schools?
I heard a story from one of my lecturers when training to be a teacher, which illustrates possibly one of the most important aspects of teaching – perhaps even more important than the actually teaching – that is, the quality of the relationship between the teacher and the students. The […]
The Power of Positive Regard
I’ve just published an eBook on Kindle called ‘Junior Cycle Literacy – Keywords for Junior Certificate Geography‘. Here’s the blurb….. “..Improve your literacy for Junior Cycle Geography and revise for Junior Certificate Geography at the same time. Keywords for Junior Certificate Geography contains definitions and explanations matched to the Junior Cycle […]
Junior Cycle Literacy – Keywords for Junior Certificate Geography
MakeUseOf is a website I found entirely by accident while surfing the interweb looking of resources. I subscribe to it to get automatic updates. Some of the updates you get will be about competitions to win stuff. It’s never happened to me so I have no vested interest in telling […]