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| Plus ça Change – Fostering Inclusive Learning Anew |
Thursday, 21 January 2021 at 4.30pm
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REGISTER →
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| Meet your Panel |
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- Tomás Ó Ruairc, Director of the Teaching Council
- Michael McNamara, Team Leader, Digital Technologies PDST
- Catherine Doolan, Director of Laois Education Centre
- Matthew Colgan, Post-primary student and Secretary of ISSU
- Orla Conway, Post-primary teacher and Assistant Principal I
- Emmet Fahy, Parent of three primary school children.
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Following the government announcement of school closures, we find ourselves grappling with challenges in education both familiar and new.
The Learning for All webinar series returns on 21st January with the same aim of connecting good ideas across school communities, and reassuring everybody that we are never as alone as we think we are. This webinar will explore both what’s different this time round and what has remained true.
The webinar panel will address questions relating to the opportunities and challenges of the current way of learning. Particular attention will be paid to the contexts of DEIS and inclusive education and we will discuss and signpost practical supports available for teachers and principals. We will also revisit the importance of school communities connecting with each other to ensure sustainable ways of working for all.
Please feel free to submit topics or questions via the registration link and we will pass them to the panel.
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| Distance and Blended Learning |
| The PDST Distance Learning page has been live since March 12th and houses a wealth of freely available resources to support you to effectively use digital technologies to engage in distance teaching and learning. |
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| It has been added to considerably since with the PDST Blended Learning Toolkit available here and a suite of YouTube explainer videos to support engagement with multiple tools and platforms here. |
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| Resources for Primary and Post-Primary Teaching and Learning |
| Please also note the wealth of primary and post-primary resources available on www.Scoilnet.ie which is continually being updated to offer support to teachers across all subject areas. Resources are available for all curriculum areas at pdst.ie and for distance learning at https://www.pdst.ie/DistanceLearning |
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| Our online course to support remote teaching. 'Teaching Online for Primary and Post Primary Teachers' has been extremely popular and focuses on how to get started teaching online, finding suitable online resources and how to use them (including Scoilnet, Webwise and World Book online), communicating with students and creating your own content. The course is available here. |
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| Digital Technologies Drop-in Clinics |
| The Digital Technologies team are providing a number of drop-in clinics over the coming weeks should individual teachers wish to avail of advice or support around any area pertaining to digital technologies for teaching, learning and assessment. The registration links below can be circulated to staff members who may wish to avail of this opportunity and they will be contacted via email with an assigned time slot on their chosen date between 3.30pm - 5.30pm. General school support requests should be made via the Tailored School Support link. |
| Please remember that schools can apply for PDST’s bespoke school support www.pdst.ie/schoolsupport for the assistance of a PDST advisor to provide tailored school support according to your needs in primary and post-primary subject areas, health and wellbeing, leadership and all requests pertaining to the use of Digital Technologies to support remote teaching, learning and assessment practices. |
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| The PDST Leadership team will also be available to support school leaders in leading and managing the remote teaching and learning process through school support, national programmes and localised networks. Leadership supports can be accessed at these links as well as our range of Leadership CPD events. |
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