by admin | Jan 15, 2014 | Resources Websites
PaperZip is another website I’ve only recently come across that offers free downloadable classroom resources. Launched in 2011 and based in Scotland, the website offers resources in a range of curricular areas such as literacy, numeracy, geography, science and...
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...
