Do you know the contribution you want to make to the world?

Making poor College choices can leave young people and their families feeling devastated. Hearing how other students made their decisions and coped can make an essential difference.

StudyandCareers.ie marks College Awareness Week with a stimulating panel discussion with 4 hopeful young people (20-24 yrs). Hear their fascinating stories, their ups, their downs, and ultimately how they made College choices that fulfil them and excite them about the contribution they want to make to the world.

Who will you meet:
1. Evan (23) - 4th year Medicine student, NUIG
2. Orla (20) - 3rd year Global Business student, DCU
3. Laura (24) - post grad student, Primary Teaching (PME), Hibernia College
4. Liam (24) - recent graduate from NUI, Maynooth, with degree in Music & French, working in new job as a Content Analyst.

Who will this panel discussion benefit
• 2nd level students, especially Leaving cert students about to complete their CAO applications.
• Young people re-evaluating their choices
• Career Guidance Counsellors
• TY Coordinators
• Parents
• Teachers and educators concerned about young people’s futures

‘He who has a why to live can bear almost any how’
Nietzsche

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Leading in Challenging Times

Focus:  This session will focus on understanding and addressing the challenges that leaders face in these unprecedent times. It aims to assist leaders in developing a nurturing perspective that will support their resilience in the weeks and months ahead.

Facilitator: Dr Joe O’ Connell

Joe O’ Connell has held a number of leadership roles in education in Ireland, he is a former director of Limerick Education Centre, he was a post-primary school principal and was the founding Director of St Senan’s Education Office which served the Catholic Dioceses of Kerry, Limerick and Killaloe. Joe currently supports various management bodies as well as the Centre for School Leadership and is an independent expert in relation to school leadership for the Directorate General Reform of the European Commission. 

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Dyslexia and how it affects the student at second level
Screening and Identification,
Understanding the assessment report
Dyslexia friendly school and classroom strategies
Resources including subject specific resources for mainstream teachers.

Biography

Wyn McCormack worked as guidance counsellor and special education teacher in St. David’s, Greystones. She is also the parent of three sons with dyslexia as well as having some dyslexic traits herself. She has designed and presented courses on dyslexia for teachers, parents and students since 1996. She is the author of the Factsheets on Dyslexia at Second Level (2014) updated annually, Lost for Words 3rd Ed. 2007, and co-author of Dyslexia, an Irish Perspective 2nd Ed 2010.

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This session focuses on examining the background and context of engaging students in mathematical problem solving in the primary school. It looks at using a routine to develop student autonomy in relation to engaging in problem solving and identifies the key strategies that students should draw on. Finally, it will focus on evaluating, categorising and writing problems.

Biography

Dr. John O'Shea is a Senior Lecturer with responsibility for the B.Ed. programme in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He is also a lecturer in Mathematics Education at both undergraduate and post-graduate level.

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This session covers Lists in Python. We aim to cover fundamentals, pedagogical approaches and activities, to help you in your classroom for leaving certificate computer science. We will cover creating, appending, deleting, copying, indexing and display 1D lists, and if time permits an introduction to 2D lists. While we will cover content the goal is to work on how to deliver such content in the class, basing our approaches on “use, modify, create” and PRIMM with suitable take-home activities. 

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This webinar will focus on practical, evidence-based strategies to support independence development in children with SEN. This will span a range of domains including learning, behaviour and life skills. This webinar would be particularly suitable for SNAs, given the focus within their role on this core concept. However, teachers would also benefit from this learning.

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