Presentation to Scoil Mochua Celbridge
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It was a real, if somewhat hectic, pleasure to present to UCD’s PDE Teach Meet on teaching gifted children on March 11th. Hopefully the start of something bigger for teachers with gifted students. Thanks to hosts John Heffernan and Conor Galvin for the invitation (and the photo!). #UCDPDETeachMeet2014-Giftedchildren-Why Should You […]
UCD PDE Teach Meet 2014
TeachMeet East in St. Patrick’s National School, Glencullen, on March 6th was my first time presenting at a TeachMeet. A 7 minute crash course in gifted education is hectic but it was great to get the chance to present to 60 or so teachers on the importance of recognising gifted […]
TeachMeet East – 2014 – St.Patricks National School Glencullen
A little while ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Jeff Shoemaker via Skype. One of the things that stuck me about teachers of gifted children is that no matter how much training or experience we have, nothing beats mulling over with other teachers approaches to meeting the needs of […]
We Never Arrive, We Only Journey – #gtbloghop – February ...
Gifted Students-Maynooth 2014
Maynooth Talk 2014
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 […]
Words To Tie To Bricks
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 […]