Choose an online course this year in partnership with Mayo Education Centre.

This summer course is about using digital technology to teach about climate action and sustainability in your classroom. Drawing on high quality resources from Scoilnet’s hub for ESD (Education for Sustainable Development), it will provide inspiration and ideas to bring these topics to life. You’ll learn how to create a climate-themed multimedia resource, choosing from formats including video, newsletters and podcasts. You will also have the opportunity to explore and evaluate climate-themed resources for your class.

Approved for EPV days.

SECTOR: Primary

COURSE DATES: 02-08-22 to 18-08-22

STUDY TIME: 20 hours

TARGET AUDIENCE: All (primary) teachers

PLACES: Limited

This summer course is about using digital technology to teach about climate action and sustainability in your classroom. Drawing on high quality resources from Scoilnet’s hub for ESD (Education for Sustainable Development), it will provide inspiration and ideas to bring these topics to life. You’ll learn how to create a climate-themed multimedia resource, choosing from formats including video, newsletters and podcasts. You will also have the opportunity to explore and evaluate climate-themed resources for your class. Approved for EPV days.

 Register now for this very relevant online summer course that will provide a range of research-based supports for teachers.

Suitable for Mainstream, EAL and SET teachers. 

LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUPPORT IN POST PRIMARY SCHOOLS - FACE TO FACE

This two-day, face to face workshop provides an introduction to and overview of English language support in post primary schools. Participants will interact with and explore an array of tools, websites, resources and activities that can be adapted and replicated in their own language support classrooms.

This is a refresher course in Google Workspace for school secretaries ahead of the start of the new school learn. 

Leadership and management roles serve the school's core work: Learning and Teaching

Posts of responsibility are part of the school's leadership and management structure.

Promotion posts within this structure are referred to as Principal, Deputy Principal, Assistant Principal I and Assistant Principal II

Staff with posts of responsibility carry out roles integral to the administration, management and leadership of the school.

Further detail and information is available in 'Looking at our Schools' for Primary and Post Primary Schools. This session explores the management of posts of responsibility within the school and provides guidance on procedures for appointment to posts of responsibility.

In this webinar participants will be taken on a journey from Stage 1 to Stage 6 of Phonological Awareness. The second part of the session will look at analytic and synthetic phonics within a balanced Literacy Framework.

This webinar will include a resource pack.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will explore the progression from phonological awareness to the world of phonics.

Participants will be familiarised with strategies and resources to support the journey a child takes to achieving fluency.

Google Workspace for Education: Sharing Good Practice

Tuesday September 6th; Tuesday October 18th; Tuesday November 15th & Tuesday December 6th 7p.m.-8p.m. 

Would you like to take part in a monthly ICT Community of Practice to check in to answer some queries and learn something new? The focus of these sessions will be Google Workspace with an emphasis on tips and tricks to save time in the classroom, new extensions and apps for Google Workspace and any updates to Google based products to help teachers/schools using Google Workspace. Each session will have a Q&A and participants will have the opportunity to share “what works” in their organisation with others. 

Class 1 Wednesday September 7th@7p.m. 

• Measure of Angles: Degrees and Radians
• Right-angled Triangles, Pythagoras’ Theorem, Sin/Cos/Tan, Sec/Cosec/Cotan
• Inverse Trigonometric Functions
• Special Angles – 45^o/30^o/60^o
• Real World Trig Problems

Class 2: Wednesday September 14th@7p.m. 

• The Unit Circle – Quadrants, Reference Angles,
• Trigonometric Graphs, Period, Range

Class 3: Wednesday September 21st@7p.m.

• Deriving Trigonometric Formulae
• Applying Trig Formulae
• Solving Trig Equations such as

Class 4: Wednesday September 28th @7p.m.

·      Area of Triangle / Area of Sector / Length of Arc

·      Sine Rule

·      Cosine Rule

·      Solving 3D Problems