by admin | Sep 10, 2013 | AEN, Resources Websites
File Folder Fun is a great website full of lots of free resources (kinda like Seomra Ranga!) to download and print out. I hadn’t heard of it before and it was discovered by my colleague. We have just started to print out some games to use in our autism class,...
by admin | Sep 3, 2013 | Teaching News
From 1 September 2013, the Teaching Council is providing all registered teachers with free access to the EBSCO Education Source package. The facility is being introduced on a pilot basis for one year. EBSCO Education Source is a collection of over 1,700 journals, a...
by admin | Sep 3, 2013 | Teaching News
As the new school term begins the RDS Foundation has announced its call for entries for the 2014 RDS Primary Science Fair. The Fair is a great way to integrate science and maths in the classroom, as the focus of the Fair is on the development of pupils’ scientific...
by admin | Sep 1, 2013 | Teaching News
The passing of poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney on Friday will have had a certain resonance with a particular cohort of primary teachers in Ireland. Many younger teachers may be unaware of the fact that Heaney was involved in the education of undergraduate...
by admin | Sep 1, 2013 | Guest Post, Technology
What are the greatest aspirations you might have for your students in the various subject areas? From your maths class you might like a mathematician. From SESE, you might hope for a scientist, historian or geologist. From PE, an Olympian. From Visual Arts, a...
by admin | Aug 30, 2013 | Resources
Donal Horgan from Áiseanna.com contacted me to let teachers know about a new maths product which he has just released. Áiseanna is the same company which developed the Maths Tracker CDs. This new product, Numeracy Toolkit, is a computer programme designed to improve...
