Course Start Date / Time | 30-01-2023 9:30 am |
Course End Date / Time | 30-01-2023 3:30 pm |
Fee | Free |
Location | Athlone Education Centre |
TITLE |
BITESIZE BIODIVERSITY |
TAG LINE |
Nature made easy! Learn about one new living thing each week. Join a collective group of teachers for 15mins every Monday, who are bringing nature into their classrooms. |
WHO IS THIS FOR? |
Primary & Secondary teachers |
DESCRIPTION |
Let’s reconnect with nature by learning more about the wildlife around us and then bring it back to our classrooms. Many students and adults find it difficult to identify common wildflowers, trees, birds and mammals. We want to address this. At the end of the year we want you and your students to be able to identify at least 30 living things and know a little more about them. When you learn a new word, you start to see it everywhere. We're hoping that by learning the names of these living things the students will see them and have a little more appreciation for them. |
DELIVERED BY |
Primary and Post-Primary Teachers in The Irish Schools Sustainability Network |
WHEN |
Monday 4-4.15pm |
Course Start Date / Time | 30-01-2023 4:00 pm |
Course End Date / Time | 30-01-2023 4:15 pm |
Fee | Free |
Location | Online Course |
Coding in the Classroom
Course Duration: 5 one-hour sessions. There are also video tutorials available to complement the lessons.
Prerequisite: The only prerequisite for this course is an interest in learning about computer coding.
Equipment: You must have access to a computer with an internet connection to participate.
Learning Outcome: At the end of this course, the participant will have the basic coding skills and resources to enable them to teach Coding to a Junior Cycle class.
Course Outline
Week 1/2 January 11th & 18th 7p.m.
· Introduce basic coding concepts through Scratch coding
o Variables, operators, loops, decisions
o Assignment, arithmetic, comparison, Boolean combinations - arrays, lists
o Functions / Procedures
· Design a simple ‘Lotto’ computer game in Scratch
Week 3 January 25th 7p.m.
· Algorithms and Flowcharts
· Creating Apps with Javascript and AppLab
Week 4 February 1st 7p.m.
· Coding using Minecraft for Education
· Designing a website with HTML
· Components of a computer system – Hardware/Software - CPU, memory, main storage, I/O Devices
· How the internet works / protocols for communication
Week 5 February 8th 7p.m.
· Binary/Octal/Hexadecimal Number Systems – Bits/Bytes/Switches/Pixels
· Machine Code / Assembly Language
· Sequential / Parallel flow of control
· Python Coding
· Coding the Raspberry Pi single-board computer
Course Start Date / Time | 01-02-2023 7:00 pm |
Course End Date / Time | 01-02-2023 8:00 pm |
Fee | Free |
Location | Online Course |
Safer Internet Day: Resources and Activities for Primary Schools
Safer Internet Day is an annual event to promote safe and responsible use of the Internet and digital technologies. This year Safer Internet Day will take place on Tuesday February 7th. If you want to learn more about this event and how to get involved then this webinar is for you.
During the webinar we will:
Course Start Date / Time | 02-02-2023 3:15 pm |
Fee | Free |
Location | Online Course |
Safer Internet Day: Resources and Activities for Post Primary Schools
Safer Internet Day is an annual event to promote safe and responsible use of the Internet and digital technologies. This year Safer Internet Day will take place on Tuesday February 7th. If you want to learn more about this event and how to get involved then this webinar is for you.
During the webinar we will:
Identify internet safety’s place in departmental policy guidance documents and school policies
Thursday, 2nd February at 4:15pm via Zoom
Register - tiny.cc/PP-SID-Webinar
Course Start Date / Time | 07-02-2023 4:15 pm |
Course End Date / Time | 07-02-2023 5:15 pm |
Fee | Free |
Location | Online Course |
Athlone Education Support Centre will be hosting a DEIS Community of Practice (CoP) for the academic year 2022/23 for Post Primary DEIS schools.
This CoP will offer an opportunity to engage in the DEIS Action Planning process through the 8 themes of DEIS. It will focus on how to effectively gather relevant baseline data and subsequently set SMART targets.
· Participants will examine the difference between targets and actions and how to link both. This will be examined with a particular focus on effective approaches to teaching and learning contained in the actions identified by the school to benefit student attainment and inclusion.
· Consideration will be given to acknowledging effective Teaching, Learning and Assessment as the core activity for engineering change in schools.
· Participants will consider how effective Teaching & Learning supports the implementation of actions under the three areas of classroom practice, subject department and whole school level.
· Monitoring and evaluating the impact of these targets and actions will be explored. Communicating a summarised DEIS report to the community and the Board of management will be reviewed.
Throughout the year, the facilitator will use key slides to focus in on the basics of DEIS action planning for all, asking principals and DEIS co-ordinators to share good practice. It is envisaged that new to DEIS participants will learn from listening to peers and gaining valuable insights as to what is happening in the different schools, bridging the theory-to-practice divide.
Course Start Date / Time | 07-02-2023 5:00 pm |
Course End Date / Time | 07-02-2023 6:00 pm |
Fee | Free |
Location | Athlone Education Centre |