by admin | Dec 15, 2011 | Teaching News
Christmas Tests – a necessary evil or the spoilsport of the classroom Christmas Spirit? I’ve been reading on the internet recently about teachers giving “Christmas Tests” to their pupils in a variety of different curricular areas. It reminded me of when I was in...
by admin | Nov 12, 2011 | Science, Teaching News
Science Week Ireland takes place from Sunday November 13th to Sunday November 20th. It is an exciting and innovative annual event which first took place in 1996. It has grown to a programme of over 500 events scheduled across the country. It aims to make science more...
by admin | Nov 9, 2011 | Teaching News, Technology
Many Irish teachers have taken to the Blogosphere over the past number of years and are using the medium of a Blog (an amalgam of the words “Web” and “Log”) either to communicate with other teachers or as a focal point to highlight work being done in the classroom....
by admin | Oct 29, 2011 | Teaching News
The school’s Inspectorate is to set up a website to allow parents to effectively rate their children’s school and the results will be online for all to see. Well, not really! However, their counterparts in England, Ofsted, have done exactly this. I just read this...
by admin | Oct 17, 2011 | Teaching News, Technology
Since 1996 the eircom Spider Awards have honoured Irish individuals and organisations for their outstanding achievements online and celebrated the successes of the Irish internet and digital media. The eircom Junior Spider Awards were established in 2009 as a parallel...
by admin | Oct 13, 2011 | Interviews, Teaching News
I recently contacted all seven of the Presidential candidates, explaining a little about Seomra Ranga and the work it does. I informed them that I was planning to do an article which would allow all the presidential candidates a chance to address the teachers of...
