Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Face to Face info gathering: Norah


Thoughts on Spraoi – My mother (She used to be a Primary School teacher... however many moons ago)

·      What age group?
·      How will you decide what words they know and don’t know?
·      You have to assume that the child has a certain amount of vocabulary, you’re presumably trying to broaden it from there
·      Would you concentrate on nouns in one exercise, verbs in another?
·      Should be competing individually as classmates rather than in teams

Thoughts on Spraoi – Frank (Second Class teacher in a Gaelscoil)

Initial thoughts on the idea
·      Very good
·      Not enough Irish educational software compared to English and maths
·      Noises encourage them when they get stuff right

Info about whiteboards
·      SMARTboards
·      Promethean
·      Pretty much do the same thing
·      Crossword maker
·      Wordsearch

What are the greatest difficulties that kids have with learning Irish?
·      Lack of interest in English-speaking schools
·      Teachers out there who wouldn’t be comfortable with speaking it in English speaking school
·      Kids don’t like it when they can’t speak it
·      They pick up the oral and aural in Gaelscoil
·      Reading would be good for gaelscoileanna
·      Séadán Sí

Problems that you could see arising
·      Only two kids at the board at a time
·      If it’s linked in some way to a task that they’re doing like a closed procedure
·      The height – the top half of the board can’t be reached
·      Incorporate it into the lesson rather than make it a game
·      Anything to keep their attention

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