Welcome to tonight's #edchatie discussion (the first of this new academic year).
Before we begin, please introduce yourself.
Don't forget to add the hashtag #edchatie into all of your tweets for the next hour too!
Fred Boss, 2nd level art teacher, currently with @NCCAie and working on #seniorcyclereview so interested to hear people's thoughts tonight on "'Senior cycle reform' - how can we ensure we do it right?"
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OK - let's begin . . .
What are your thoughts on "'Senior cycle reform' - how can we ensure we do it right?"
Remember to include the #edchatie hashtag in all of your tweets for the next hour - they'll be collated and available after the discussion
John Loughlin, Biology teacher @stjosephsbish and Chair @IrishSciTeach I think it's very important that sensationalist headlines we all saw in the middle of August don't form the basis of '#screform' and that any changes are *fully* evidence-based. #edchatie
In reply to
@fboss, @NCCAie, @stjosephsbish, @IrishSciTeach
Buy in from teachers is huge. Each school should have a representative offering feedback. I know there are voluntary feedback forms available but if JC reform taught us anything, itâs that majority of teachers donât engage in that feedback #edchatie
Great to be one of the 41 collaborating schools involved in #seniorcyclereview. Offers great opportunity to hear views of teachers, parents, students #edchatie
Hi, Brian from St Michaelâs history - im really hoping those involved, leave the Leaving Cert history course alone, as the new curriculum since 2006 is modern, balanced & offers huge potential to create & think critically (just extend dates of the project past 1989) #edchatie
Absolutely. I would also argue that there are serious issues in our schools which need to be addressed before we begin Senior Cycle reform. Any changes which take place need to happen in healthy, fully -resourced schools, else they will not work.#edchatiehttps://t.co/NKaQCVTeQc
In reply to
@j_loughlin, @fboss, @NCCAie, @stjosephsbish, @IrishSciTeach
Senior Cycle Reform cannot be rushed, like private industry would like. We have one chance to get it right. Piecemeal tinkering will fail. Reform should build on the changes in JC. #edchatie
#edchatie Having worked on a number of innovative projects in ACPS, the rate of change here is too slow. the world these students are facing is far faster than civil service mandarins are comfortable. I think they are happy in being a 2nd rate educational system
#edchatie but how much will actually be taken on board? I remember participating in the NCCA surveys for junior cycle reform & the minister of the day largely ignored the results & proceeded with his own "vision"
Noel from Drogheda - SC Reform will be most effective when itâs accepted that the LC should be much more than just a gateway to 3rd level. Let the universities take responsibility for their own entrance requirements instead of foisting it on second level as it is now. #edchatie
As another school partipating in the review we are taking the advice that âblue sky thinkingâ is being sought seriously because to do otherwise would render the whole process useless #edchatie
Almost halfway through the first #edchatie discussion of this new academic year and we're chatting about "'Senior cycle reform' - how can we ensure we do it right?"
Think the marking scheme, where 40% of the overall marks are allocated for assessment, arguement, critical thinking & making valid points referring back to the Question asked - gives students scope to express themselves with relevant information #edchatie
#edchatie An admirable ideal, but in real life, students tend to thrive with structured direction. And in our classes of 25 or more pupils, structure and clear guidance is an an absolute necessity.
The minister by his own admission, congratulated the NCCA for drafting the #jcreform in secret. #edchatie Cannot be allowed to o this with #LCReform (OopsâŚanother hashtag invented!!)
My thoughts exactly. Every Irish teacher I know said cut the literature, let the kids speak the language. So the NCCA added a few more poems and a novel! Scared to think what they'll do to the LC. #edchatie
Looking to teachers at home and abroad, using consultation, #studentvoice and #parentvoice and building on good work to date are some of the suggestions from tonight's #edchatie on "'Senior cycle reform' - how can we ensure we do it right?" #seniorcyclereview
Have met many textbook authors at conferences open to feedback - could NCCA do the same - would catch a greater footfall & be subject specific #edchatie
It is absolutely critical that we get it right. All education stakeholders must be on-board with it, but *in particular* the teachers - as they/we are the ones that have to enact it. We get this wrong and it affects a whole generation. #edchatie
Kate, English & French teacher in Cork. Thoughts include: senior cycle being recognised as educational stage in its own right, not merely prep for 3rd level, retention of exams as main assessment mode, agree with @peter_lydon that new JC is disaster for senior cycle #edchatie
Teachers *have* to believe in it....and not just the relatively few enthusiastic 'get-involved-in-everything' type of teachers, but *all* teachers #edchatie
Kate Urell from Dublin - we need to move away from the seven subjects ideal and towards more cross-curricular projects while still maintaining high standards #edchatie
Kids are older starting school (more likely 5 than 4) and most do 6 yrs in secondary. I'd like to see opportunity for more specialisation in the final year, but not til then as breadth a positive feature of current system #edchatie#screform
How about we do NOTHING with #LCReform & instead just remove the points system & see how LC responds. Current LC is almost entirely responsible for the adaptability of Irish workers MNCs love - thatâs why we have 20% US FDI in EU despite 1% of its population #edchatie
We're into the famous final five minutes of tonight's first #edchatie discussion of this new academic year on 'Senior cycle reform' - how can we ensure we do it right?"
Any last thoughts, ideas, questions or solutions?
And donât be misled by all the #JobsThatHavenâtBeenInventedYet, or the #CodingGetafix We have Europeâs Silicon Valley right here, right now. Any ânewâ #LCReform should focus on creating *educated* school grads with a healthy distain for the status quo #edchatie
