Available courses

Teaching Dyslexics and Struggling Readers to Read through Structured Literacy

Aims of the Course:

  • To introduce and explain the concepts underpinning Structured Literacy (SL) 
  • To enable the participants, collaborate with colleagues to recognise and deal with struggling readers in the early years of primary education and thereby, to give these children the opportunity to fulfil their potential in the Education System and become skilled and successful readers. 
  • To enable the participants to organize and deliver teaching to primary students, with SEN and struggling to learn how to read, using an SL programme. 
  • To equip teachers with the skills and methodologies to help develop pupils learning across and beyond the curriculum 
  • To enable participants, partake in developing and managing whole-school strategies to improve literacy levels in primary schools, in line with the Primary Language Curriculum, and the National Strategy for Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life 2011 – 2020,   and the advice and support available through the NCSE, and European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (EASNI).

 

I-TAP-PD Online Training

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Teacher Artist Partnership- CPD for Enhancing Arts Education in Ireland

Teacher Artist Partnership (TAP) CPD Summer Course is an arts-in-education initiative where Artists and Teachers train to work in partnership.  This programme can lead to opportunities for a TAP trained teacher to host a fully funded TAP artist residency in his or her school in the coming academic year.  This Creative Youth, Department of Education and Skills led primary initiative is a highly innovative, creative and participant-responsive programme that promotes professional learning towards partnership.  TAP online maximises engagement through a broad range of on and off-line activities.  Learning activities include practical, multidisciplinary arts experiences through multimedia interactives, video instruction, collaborative posting boards and discussion forums and reflective practices.  Tutors, teachers and artists provide responsive feedback and encourage collaborators to reflect on personal and professional development through the co-creation of learning.  TAP’s core focus is the development of creative partnership between teachers and artists.

Join us in learning together.

ITAP - Test Course

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