The Budget brought many unseen cutbacks to our schools which have left me stunned. How a Minister for Education can allow Ireland to slip to last in Europe on the issue of class size defies belief. When Ireland was one of the wealthiest nations on the planet we should have been investing in education to […]
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The Department for Children, Schools and Families (U.K.) on one of their sites The Standard Sites has over 30 interactive teaching programmes for Primary Mathematics at http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframeworks/library/Mathematics/ICTResources/itps/ The programmes will support teachers in teaching the number, data, shape and space and measurement strands of the revised primary school curriculum. They are particularly suitable for use
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The arrival of an Interactive White Board (IWB) presents a number of interesting challenges as well as the need to re-examine your teaching methodologies. It will take a substantial amount of time for a teacher to develop his/her own bank of educational resources. After the initial settling in period and getting over the fun of
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www.pppst.com This is a website (Pete’s Power Point Station) I came across that was recommended to readers of another teacher’s blog. The site has a vast number of free Powerpoint presentations which can be downloaded by teachers for their own use. It is suitable for both primary and secondary schools and the teacher can amend
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