Developing Learning Communities

Developing Learning Communities is an inter-school project involving four second-level schools in Kilkenny and Carlow. The project is centred in Kilkenny Education Centre.

The Project’s aims include:

(1) The development of inter school links which will facilitate dialogue among teachers across the four participating schools.

(2) The continuity of this dialogue, allied to encouragement to try new approaches, develop new thinking and become more reflective regarding professional practice, within the teachers’ own schools.

(3) The development of genuine professional discussion regarding classroom practice and reflective practice among teachers in the four schools. This should lead to a renewed focus on aspects of teaching and learning in all four schools.

Participating schools include:

Callan C.B.S., Callan, Co Kilkenny

Presentation Secondary School, Kilkenny

Presentation-De La Salle, Bagenalstown, Co Carlow

Grennan College, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny

Overall approximately 130 teachers will be involved in the project, over two school years.

Teachers from the four schools have been invited to choose one topic from the following list:

Homework and Assessment

Classroom Management

Inclusion of Students with Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Classes

Teaching and Integrating E.A.L. Students

Mixed Ability Teaching/Co-operative Learning