| Course Title: |
SUM01 New Eyes to See Flora & Fauna (Course 1) (FULLY BOOKED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Dalgan Park, Navan |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Ger Clarke |
| Description: |
Enjoy a stroll in Dalgan Park.
This hands-on course will introduce teachers to the following methods of approaching environmental studies: Field walks and nature trails, Record Keeping, Resource Creation. Use of laboratory work and audit mapping will also be included.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM02 Fun with Fabric & Fibre (FULLY BOOKED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Navan Education Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Máire Cousins |
| Description: |
The aim of this course is to create/revive an interest in all aspects of Arts Education. Participants will become familiar with traditional Irish crafts especially with local living crafts. Participants will use a range of techniques and will use fabric and fibre as materials for imaginative free stitching, developing sensitivity to colour, texture, line and shape. This is a hands on participative course. |
| Fee: |
€75
|
| Course Title: |
SUM03 Music Making from Scratch through Samba Drumming & Percussion(CANCELLED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Ratoath Community Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Kieran Gallagher |
| Description: |
The objective of the course is to give teachers the ability to use music/percussion in their classrooms with the participation of all students. This is achieved by learning warm up techniques, exercises, games and a host of rhythms leading to performance on actual percussion instruments. No musical experience necessary for this enjoyable course.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM04 Physical Education |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
St. Declan's NS, Ashbourne |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Vincent Mulvey & Team |
| Description: |
The course aims to familiarise teachers with the content and methodologies of the Gymnastics, Athletics, Dance, Games and Outdoor and Adventure strands of the Primary Curriculum in PE, to enable teachers to have practical experience of these strands of the PE Curriculum in order to implement same in the classroom.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM05 Science (FULLY BOOKED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Fairways Hotel, Dundalk |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Kathy Synnott |
| Description: |
The main objective of this course is on active participation. Participants will explore all strands of the science curriculum, including Living Things, Environmental Awareness and Care, Energy and Forces, Materials.
Participants will develop their confidence in these areas and strategies will be provided to enable them to adapt and to suit their own individual classes.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM06 Aquatics, Water Safety & Basic Life Support(CANCELLED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Kells Swimming Pool/Headfort Arms Hotel Kells |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Annette Geoghegan & Team |
| Description: |
This course aims to provide teachers with the skills to enable them to implement aquatics and other elements of the Physical Education, Primary School Curriculum (1999). Topics include swimming instruction and participation, lifestyle skills instruction, resuscitation, theory and practice, aquatics games and safety.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€80
|
| Course Title: |
SUM07 Walk Tall - Developing the Emotionally Intelligent Pupil as a Strategy for the Prevention of Substance Misuse |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Navan Education Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
TBC |
| Description: |
The course aims to provide training in the methodologies used in the Walk Tall classroom, it will explore the various approaches to drugs education, provide information on commonly misused substances and to explore attitudes to drugs.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€10
|
| Course Title: |
SUM08 Using ICT as a Teaching & Learning Resource (FULLY BOOKED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Navan Education Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Pat Sheridan & Joe Collins |
| Description: |
The objectives of this course are:
To provide curricular and hands-on support to primary teachers so that they may explore how technology can motivate, facilitate and support better learning in general and especially in cross-curricular projects.
The course uses a variety of technology tools including
• the Internet,
• digital photography,
• open source software or freeware
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment.
|
| Fee: |
€10
|
| Course Title: |
SUM09 Music from the Beginning - Take it from the Top(CANCELLED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Navan Education Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Philip Ward |
| Description: |
Teachers will explore sounds…body, vocal, environmental. Teachers will also play percussion instruments. Song singing selecting and teaching a song. Different genres icluding songs as gaeilge. Songs for infants…2 part songs…Music literacy from the beginning, Instrument playing…recorder from the beginning.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of the booking form along with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM10 Irish Traditional Dance & Folk Dance |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
08/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
14/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Navan Education Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Fiona Carroll |
| Description: |
Teachers will experience enjoyment and achievement through movement. They will also perform a variety of selected Irish and folk dances that use frequent changes of formation, perform to music showing increasing sensitivity to rhythms, phrasing, style (music of different cultures, different times)dynamics (getting louder or softer) and form (binary, ternary)To interact and co-operate sensitively with others, regardless of cultural or social background or special needs. To develop qualities of self-esteem, self- awareness, confidence, initiative and leadership through movement. Teachers will perform dances with confidence and competence, including simple folk and Irish dances.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM11 Contemporary Art in the Classroom (FULLY BOOKED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
05/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
09/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Fairways Hotel, Dundalk |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Anne Bradley |
| Description: |
This course aims to use the work of contemporary artists, both Irish and international, as a starting point for art making activities. There will be a variety of approaches used during the course including oral/visual presentations, group discussion and hands on art making activities. Beginning with looking and responding to art works, all of the strands of the Visual Arts curriculum will be explored through art-making activities or lesson planning discussions. There will also be an emphasis on exploring how Contemporary Art can be used to generate lessons in other subject areas from Creative Writing and Science to Maths and SESE.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM12 Yoga (FULLY BOOKED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
01/07/2010 |
| End Date: |
07/07/2010 |
| Location: |
Scoil Mhuire Fatima, Drogheda |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Treasa Ward |
| Description: |
This course aims to help teachers experience deep relaxation and learn relaxation technique.
• To learn and practice yoga postures and learn some yoga sequences.
• To learn the full yogic breath and alternative nostril breathing.
• To learn meditation techniques.
• To appreciate that relaxation, healthy diet, exercise and positive attitude are key factors that affect our health and wellbeing.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM13 Kells - Exploring its Local History (FULLY BOOKED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
23/08/2010 |
| End Date: |
27/08/2010 |
| Location: |
St. Colmcille's BNS, Kells |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Ann Murtagh |
| Description: |
We’ve got Kells covered—from early Christian times to the swinging sixties.
This courses aims to provide teachers with a range of materials for the Local Studies Strand:
• Trails
• Field trips
• Documentary sources
• Visual sources /Online sources,
• Buildings of historical
Teachers will also actively explore features of the environment of Kells, the immediate environment of the schools and the wider environment of the town and its hinterland.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM14 Understanding Children with Emotional Difficulties and using Therapeutic Play in the management at school (CANCELLED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
23/08/2010 |
| End Date: |
27/08/2010 |
| Location: |
Navan Education Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Carmel Carey |
| Description: |
The course will promote teachers’ understanding of children with emotional difficulties, to help engage them better in the learning process and to create a positive classroom environment to facilitate learning.
Participants will learn how to teach children to recognise and manage their feelings and express them appropriately, giving them tools to assist in this area. The skills and techniques taught will be particularly useful for resource and support teachers who are working with children who have greater needs in this area.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment.
|
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM15 Ideas and Strategies for Teaching Maths in the Primary School |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
23/08/2010 |
| End Date: |
27/08/2010 |
| Location: |
Navan Education Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Nicola Corbet |
| Description: |
This course will provide the teacher with a wide range of knowledge, skills and related activities that will help the child to develop an understanding of the physical world and social interactions within a Maths context through the Strands and Strand Units. Participants will develop an understanding of these maths skills through the content of the programme Focus will also be placed on the key messages of the Curriculum.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM16 New Eyes to See Flora & Fauna (Course 2) (FULLY BOOKED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
23/08/2010 |
| End Date: |
27/08/2010 |
| Location: |
Dalgan Park, Navan |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Ger Clarke |
| Description: |
Enjoy a stroll in Dalgan Park.
This hands-on course will introduce teachers to the following methods of approaching environmental studies: Field walks and nature trails, Record Keeping, Resource Creation. Use of laboratory work and audit mapping will also be included.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM17 SESE History & Geography (CANCELLED) |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
23/08/2010 |
| End Date: |
27/08/2010 |
| Location: |
Navan Education Centre |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Gerard Ruane |
| Description: |
Teachers will cover topics on Rocks & Soils, Weather, Local Environment, People & other Lands, ICT.
Other topics covered will include Local History, Story, Eras of Conflict and Change and ICT.
Participants will learn how to teach both skills and content in History and Geography. Participants will be able to plan for their class ensuring they are implementing the Revised Curriculum.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
| Course Title: |
SUM18 Promoting Positive Behaviour through Reflective Practice |
| Target: |
Primary Teachers |
| Start Date: |
23/08/2010 |
| End Date: |
27/08/2010 |
| Location: |
Boyne Valley Hotel, Drogheda |
| Time: |
9:30am - 2pm |
| Facilitator(s): |
Stephen Gregory & Breda Murray |
| Description: |
This course should help the participants engage in all aspects inherent in their role as a classroom manager. Participants will explore ideas and resources which will help in the implementation of the S.P.H.E. curriculum. Issues such as the personal development and well being of the pupil, increasing pupil self-esteem, participation in democratic processes and supporting the pupil in developing strategies to cope with challenging situations will be explored.
Please note that course places will only be given on receipt of booking form with full payment. |
| Fee: |
€50
|
