Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this podcast we hear why many young children don't understand the meaning of the equals sign and what can be done about it. We also hear why manipulatives are not good for teaching the cardinality of numbers (i.e. that when you count objects, the final number relates to the whole set and not just to the final object that was counted). My guest is Professor Nicole McNeil who directs the Cognition Learning and Development Lab at the University of Notre Dame. She is also ACE Associate Professor of Psychology and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the university.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. In this podcast I bring you the second part of my two-part interview with Harvard University Professor, Catherine Snow. Professor Snow was in Ireland as a guest of the Reading Association of Ireland and she gave a keynote speech at the annual conference of the Association in September 2013.

On this podcast in the first of a two-part interview I speak to Professor Catherine Snow from Harvard Graduate School of Education about several aspects of language and literacy. She visited Ireland as a guest of the Reading Assocation of Ireland.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. In this podcast I speak to John Mighton the founder of JUMP Maths.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I spoke to Sarah Pepper who is the Principal of the International School of Dublin. You can learn more about the school here and here. This is the final Inside Education programme for now. Thank you for listening and I hope to be back some time in the future.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Eemer Eivers, Aidan Clerkin and Dr. Mary Lewis of the Educational Research Centre about the publication of National Schools, International Contexts: Beyond the PIRLS and TIMSS Test Results. The report outlines the factors that are believed to have influenced our results on the maths, reading, and science tests which were published at the end of 2012 and compares the factors across countries. You can hear about the results here.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to Elizabeth Oldham from the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin about the history of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI) to mark the fortieth anniversary of the society's being founded. The interview was recorded at the annual conference of CESI 2013. The programme also features a brief excerpt from an interview with Professor John Naughton about the Raspberry Pi computing device.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney For this week's programme I went on location to the Burren where Gordon D'Arcy and Paddy Madden were bringing a group of student teachers on a tour of the Burren. I eavesdropped on the tour and asked Gordon some questions about organising a school tour to exploit its educational potential. In the programme Gordon refers to the Heritage in Schools scheme. You can find out more about it here.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme I spoke to Professor Angela O'Donnell who is originally from Ireland but who has a successful academic career in the United States as an educational psychologist. She is based in Rutgers University and is author of Educational Psychology: Reflection for Action.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I speak to staff and students from Bridge 21, an initiative to promote work that is project-based, team-oriented, and technology-mediated among post-primary students.