COMMUNITIES of PRACTICE LEARNING TOGETHER to TEACH TOGETHER Fourteenth Annual Conference #Scotens2016

THE STANDING CONFERENCE ON TEACHER EDUCATION, NORTH AND SOUTH COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE LEARNING TOGETHER TO TEACH TOGETHER Fourteenth Annual Conference #SCoTENS2016 Teach Learn Opening Keynote address 3.00pm Thursday 13 October Professor Graham Donaldson, University of Glasgow Closing Keynote address 2.00pm Friday 14 October Professor Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Social Learning Theorist and Consultant THURSDAY 13 – FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016, ARMAGH CITY HOTEL Teach COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE Learn LEARNING TOGETHER TO TEACH TOGETHER PROGRAMME 13 and 14 October 2016 in Armagh City Hotel St Mary’s University College. Research group will be led by Dr Colette Gray, Principal Lecturer in Early Thursday 13 October 2016 Childhood Studies, Stranmillis University College Fisher 3 & 4 and Dr Anita Prunty, Retired Senior Lecturer, Chair: Mr Tomás Ó Ruairc, Director, the Teaching Special Education Department, St Patrick’s College, Council and co-Chair SCoTENS Drumcondra. 1.15pm Lunch and registration 9.30am Parallel Workshops 2.45pm Opening Remarks by co-Chair SCoTENS Workshop 1 - Models of Partnership Dr Brian Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Education, University 3.00pm Keynote address: Professor Graham Donaldson, College Cork Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow Ms Audrey Curry, Director of Community Engagement and From Ambition to Reality External Affairs, Stranmillis University College 4.00pm Panel Discussion: Professional Learning Chaired This workshop brings two complementary perspectives on the by Professor Teresa O’Doherty, Dean of issue of professional partnerships, drawing on case studies Education, Mary Immaculate College from ITE North and South of the border. Panel comprising: Workshop 2 – Cluster Approach to CPD Mr Tomás Ó Ruairc, Director, the Teaching Council Ms Eimear McCarthy, Teacher, St Joseph’s Secondary and co-Chair SCoTENS School, Rush Mr John Anderson, Managing Inspector, Ms Nicola Connery, Principal, Wellington College Education and Training Inspectorate Dr Margery McMahon, Senior Lecturer, University This workshop includes the experiences of two schools from of Glasgow North and South who have had a positive experience with Ms Marie-Therese Kilmartin, Principal, Coláiste CPD. They will speak about how their schools approached and Bríde, Clondalkin managed cluster CPD. This will include the challenges and Ms Nicola Connery, Principal, Wellington College opportunities which exist with such a task, as well as what was achieved and the logistics behind the approaches in two 7.00pm Drinks Reception in Fisher 1 to launch two different education systems. SCoTENS reports: 1. 2015 ScoTENS Annual Report launched by Workshop 3 – 3d Printing across the Curriculum using Dr Tom Hesketh former Director Regional the Bridge21 Pedagogical Model Training Unit Mr John Peto, Director, The Nerve Centre, Derry~Londonderry 2. Managing Early Years Inclusive Transition Professor Brendan Tangney, Professor of Computer Science, Practices launched by Professor Paul Conway, Trinity College Dublin Professor of Education, University of Limerick This workshop brings together the Nerve Centre, from 8.00pm Pre-dinner Speech by Minister Peter Weir, MLA Derry~Londonderry and Trinity College Dublin’s Bridge21 followed by conference dinner project. The Nerve Centre works to embed and support digital creativity in Northern Ireland’s schools through the Creative Friday 14 October 2016 Learning Centres, Moving Image Arts and projects such as Teaching Divided Histories. This workshop will see participants Fisher 3 & 4 develop a practical insight into 3D Printing and its uses Chair: Professor Linda Clarke, Professor of across the curriculum. The workshop will be framed within Education, Ulster University and co-Chair the Bridge21 pedagogical model for 21st century, technology SCoTENS mediated, teaching and learning which is being used by an increasing number of teachers and secondary schools across 9:00am SCoTENS Seed Funding Workshop: Members the Republic for teaching a wide variety of subjects while also of the research team that produced Managing promoting the development of 21C skills. Early Years Inclusive Transition Practices will showcase their project as a good example and will Workshop 4 – The Importance of Developing an Autism present on the preparation, implementation and and Early Years Training Programme impact of their project (optional workshop open Ms Tracie Tobin, Principal, St Michael’s Infant School in to SCoTENS members interested in seed Limerick funding) Chaired by Professor Kathy Hall, Head of Ms Frances O’ Neill, Autism Trainer/Advisor, Middletown School of Education, University College Cork Centre for Autism and Dr Geraldine Magennis, Senior Lecturer, Teach COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE Learn LEARNING TOGETHER TO TEACH TOGETHER CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AND Middletown Centre for Autism knew that there was need to CHAIRPERSONS provide a supportive programme to parents and professionals living and working with young children with autism. Mr Tomás Ó Ruairc was appointed St Michaels’ Infant School and Tracie Tobin, Principal, were Director of the Teaching Council in May 2012. willing to pilot and evaluate the programme to ensure that it Previously, Tomás was in a senior position in met the needs of this particular group of children. the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht. This collaborative partnership offers a training programme, Prior to that, he was Deputy CEO and Director which wishes to focus on developing the practical foundation of Education Services in Foras na Gaeilge. He skills needed by the child in the Early Years to enable him/her has considerable experience in the field of to progress and optimise his or her potential. education, having served as a member of the NCCA (National Council for Curriculum and Workshop 5 – Leaders of Learning: Emerging Policies Assessment) from 2006 to 2009; Chair of its Languages Committee and Innovative Practices in Teacher Professional (Primary) in 2009; and as Head of Irish and Chair of the Academic Learning and Leadership Development Council in Froebel College of Education from 2000 to 2005. He Mr John Anderson, Managing Inspector, Education and was a teacher in Athlone Community College, Co. Westmeath. Training Inspectorate He has produced syllabus and teaching materials in the area Ms Carmel Kearns, Education Officer, The Teaching Council of teaching of Irish to adults for UCD (Diploma in Irish) and Gael Mr Martin Lally, Assistant Chief Inspector, Department of Linn. He has presented a number of papers on matters related to Education and Skills teacher professionalism, which can be accessed via http://www. teachingcouncil.ie/promoting-teaching/education-papers.1585.html This workshop will share and discuss emerging policies and innovative practices in teacher professional learning and Professor Graham Donaldson is a leadership development, both North and South. It will touch former teacher who headed Her Majesty’s on (in the south) the Quality Framework for Leadership and Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) from 2002- Management, the establishment of the Centre for School 10. He radically reformed the approach to Leadership and Cosán, the national framework for teachers’ inspection, combining external accountability learning and (in the north) in the context of the new strategy with self-evaluation and capacity building. for teacher professional learning ‘Learning Leaders,’ the ETI’s As chief professional advisor to Ministers review of innovative practices in schools. on education, he has taken a leading role in a number of major reform programmes. Following retirement 11.00am Refreshments from HMIE, his report ‘Teaching Scotland’s Future’ (2011), made 50 recommendations about teacher education in Scotland which 11.30am 1st SCoTENS Doctoral Roundtable have all been accepted by the government and are the subject of (Invitation workshop) an ongoing reform programme. He has also undertaken a review Dr Conor Galvin, Doctoral Programme of the national curriculum in Wales and the 68 recommendations Coordinator, UCD in his radical report, ‘Successful Futures’ (2015), have also been Dr Noel Purdy, Director of Research & Scholarship, accepted in full and embodied in a major, long-term reform Stranmillis University College programme. Graham has worked as an international expert for OECD, participating in reviews of education in Australia, Portugal The Roundtable will provide a mix of short presentations by and Sweden. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath participants on their work in progress and will also feature input by the Queen in 2009 and given the Robert Owen Award as an by SCoTENS colleagues who are leaders in the field of Teacher Inspirational Educator by the Scottish Government in September Education and related research in Ireland and beyond. 2015. In addition to various forms of consultancy and continuing to act periodically as an international expert to OECD projects, he was Parallel Workshops (as above) appointed as an Honorary Professor in Glasgow University in 2011 and an advisor to the Minister for Education and Skills in Wales in 1.00pm Lunch Fisher 1 2015. Graham is also a member of the First Minister of Scotland’s International Council of Education Advisors (2016). 2.00pm Keynote address: Professor Etienne Wenger- Trayner, Social Learning Theorist and Consultant Professor Teresa O’Doherty is Dean Why social learning theory matters to of Education at Mary Immaculate College, educators Limerick. She has published internationally in the areas of history of education and 3.00pm

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