Camara Education Ireland, in partnership with Google for Education, are delighted to be hosting Google for Education Discovery Days. 

Hosted by experienced teachers and teacher trainers, topics covered will include G Suite for Education set up and admin, introductory classroom use, advanced Google apps for teaching and learning, and Chromebook deployment. No experience using the platform is necessary, as attendees will get the chance to explore the G Suite for Education platform in this training taster session. Chromebooks will also be provided to use on the day. 

Register your interest in attending at bit.ly/2tRagmH

 

Title:   Helping the Struggling Speller

This talk will examine spelling as a skill and also as a developmental process. It will explore reasons why children struggle with spelling and what can be done to overcome these difficulties. It will also examine strategies to aid spelling development. Using case studies, it will show how to detect spelling difficulties and suggest methodologies.

Expected Outcomes:

Participants will have an increased awareness of spelling as a skill and how spelling develops. They will be able to examine children's writing and detect strengths and weaknesses and build up a profile of the child's spelling development. It will also lead participants to reflect on their own classroom practice and how the quality of errors determines spelling improvement.

Brendan Culligan

Brendan spent thirty years as a primary school teacher in Dublin. He specialised in learning support teaching for fifteen of these years. He spent another fifteen years lecturing in initial teacher training both in Froebel College of Education and Marino Institute of Education. He was a member of the D.E.S. task force on Dyslexia in 2001. He is a past secretary of I.L.S.A. and past president of the Literacy Association of Ireland. He delivered the keynote address at their last year’s conference. He is a designer and tutor of inservice on Literacy Difficulties and has presented papers both nationally and internationally. He has edited journals for both I.L.S.A. and L.A.I. He has published many articles on literacy and is the author of ‘Improving Children’s Spelling’ and also ‘Spelling and Handwriting’. His latest work is a cursive handwriting programme from the beginning called ‘Go with the Flow’.

This is a follow on training to the Introduction training which took place in December. Teachers who attend this course will get first preference on hiring Numicon kits for their school from the Education Centre.

Mathematics needs to be active and social. Numicon is both. The Numicon approach is multi-sensory, uses objects and has a focus on action,  imagery  and  conversation, in other words a focus on children physically doing maths.

By using Numicon shapes and materials, children understand number relationships, spot patterns and make generalisations. Numicon’s visual, auditory and kinesthetic (practical) approach appeals to different learning styles.

Numicon enables children to really ‘see’ how numbers and the number system work. The Numicon teaching approach helps children communicate their mathematical thinking to teachers. This in turn helps teachers to ‘see’ pupils' understanding. The concept of 'doing' maths is the key to the Numicon programme.

This ‘Intermediate’ presentation will focus on Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.

The course fee of €20 is non refundable.

 Trauma Informed Teaching 

Saturday 15th of February, 29th of February and the 21st of March 10am - 3pm.

Lunch will be provided on each day. The fee is non refundable or transferrable. If the minimum number of teachers for the course to run isn't reached (10) you will be refunded in full.

If children feel safe and connected to their teachers, they will be able to learn and cope better at school.

This program is a new experiential program that has been developed to support teachers & SNAs to create an environment in their classrooms where children who have experienced trauma can learn to connect better to safe adults, build friendships and reach their full potential.

This program takes place over 3 days training and full attendance is compulsory. Your time with a child over a school year can last a life time and set seeds for that child to believe they matter, ask for help and blossom like all children should.

Teacher- “I am a trauma informed teacher”

Child- “My teacher understands me and cares"

This course will provide an overview of the impact of trauma on students and explore how adverse life experiences can impact on their behaviour in the classroom.

Learning objectives:

• Exploring the impact of trauma on the developing brain.
• The prevalence of trauma exposure in our schools and the need to be trauma informed.
• Gaining an understanding of trauma and how children experience trauma.
• Trauma-sensitive practices and interventions to address the impact of trauma on children and how to increase their ability to succeed in school.

Training in trauma-informed teaching helps your students feel safe. Children who have experienced trauma have challenges with self-regulation and with learning. Frustrations can mask symptoms and causing children to act out. As a trauma informed teacher you will start to create change in your school and support the children who have experienced trauma.

Therapeutic Tool Box – For Special Needs Assistants   

Due to a huge interest in the recent workshops delivered by Edel lawlor, we are running more workshops that will focus on having different creative interventions that will help Special Needs assistants in their daily work and support with children. It is based around tasks, experiential and practical methods to support children emotionally and socially. The structure of the workshop gives you the opportunity to experience first-handa number of creative mediums, to reflect on your personal learning and work ethic with adults and children. It will also enable you to reflect and build on your previous knowledge and understanding about play and its therapeutic value.