18-08-2020 What needs to be done to reopen schools safely?
Q1. What is good about the current plan to reopen schools? Additional funds long overdue. Discussion about homework in light ...
The hardest Covid19 decision for the Irish government is the State exams.
Wild, unfounded claims I’m not an epidemiologist but let me make some wild unfounded claims like everyone else. This is not ...
Tom’s Terrible Take
The Junior Cycle Framework (, and revised ) is the outcome of qualitative research carried out initially in 1999 (yup, ...
Teach Anyway
Teachers, You will be told that your holidays are too long; teach anyway. You will be told that you must ...
2 Things To Help Fix Irish Second Level Education
The Innovation Academy So, in June I attended the group project presentations of the Entrepreneurial Educators in the Innovation Academy ...
Minister for Education Overrules The Professionals on Fitness-To-Teach Hearings
Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You! The Irish Times reports that the Minister for ...
Gifted Education in Ireland: Educators Beliefs and Practices in Ireland
Today the Centre for Talented Youth Ireland launched a seminal report on the educator beliefs and practices of teachers in Ireland ...
I Learn, Therefore I Am
Stupidity is to doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Equally stupid is claiming, either implicitly ...
#edchatie ‘Challenging Gifted Children in the mixed-ability classroom’
On Monday 23rd September, Fred Boss (@FBoss) kindly allowed me to take over #edchatie for a Twitter chat to mark ...