March 29, 2016
As an educator I feel that workbooks are overused and here are 5 reasons why I think we should stop using them: #1 Cost Workbooks are […]
March 24, 2016
Once the Easter holidays are over, things start to get very serious very fast. The countdown to the Leaving or Junior Cert, A or O levels, […]
March 15, 2016
Seachtain na Gaeilge has started and in a few days Lá le Padraig will be upon us. This year, with the centenary of Eirí Amach 1916 […]
March 10, 2016
Yesterday, March 8 2016, was International Women’s Day. A very good (male) friend put up a Facebook post today saying that International Women’s Day was supposed […]
March 3, 2016
A few weeks ago, my cousin Trish was visiting from Dublin. Trish is a Montessori teacher and as you can imagine, it didn’t take long for […]
February 25, 2016
In 1948, Edward William Dolch PhD, of the University of Illinois, in his book ‘Problems in Reading’ identified a list of words that he believed to […]