by admin | Jan 14, 2014 | Resources Websites
Teachers Pay Teachers is a website which I only recently became aware of. As the website itself says it is an “open marketplace for educators to buy, sell, and share their original resources”. There is a huge amount of resources on the site across all...
by admin | Jan 9, 2014 | Teaching News
The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) has said that the new Book Rental Scheme, as proposed by Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn, is penalising schools that have struggled and made sacrifices to set up book rental schemes in the past. The...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, plans to shortly amend legislation to give extra powers to the Teaching Council to deal with what is referred to as “poor and under-performing teachers”. At present, a teacher has to be deemed “unfit to...
by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | Teaching News
Two teachers or five SNAs – that could be one of the choices facing principals in the future if proposals by Public Spending Minister, Brendan Howlin ever come to fruition. It seems that the minister has plans to devolve funding to schools themselves and allow...
by admin | Jan 2, 2014 | Teaching News
Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2011 will finally come into effect on January 28th this year. After many delays, Minister Ruairí Quinn finally signed the commencement order for this part of the Act on November 1st 2013, meaning that Section 30 is legally...
by admin | Dec 31, 2013 | Website
As we come to the end of another calendar year and say goodbye to 2013, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of the visitors and supporters of the Seomra Ranga website a Happy New Year and wish you all the best for 2014. Many thanks for your constant...
