I delivered our first Teaching and Learning breakfast morning for our school year. A group of us here in Naas Community College have been sent on an Instructional leadership Programme which is a 4 part conference geared towards giving teachers new strategies, tactics and lesson design approaches within their classrooms. I started the course back in March 2017 and I am due to complete my last session next week in October. Barrie Bennet is the Canadian maestro in the conferences and he delivers educational practices through means of his own activities, knowledge and experiences. Our T+L Breakfast mornings are all about sharing what we learn from these conferences and bringing them back to all of our teachers here at NCC. T+L mornings are held five times a year before school and it encourages teachers to come and enjoy an interactive lesson and learn new practices of those who have been on the IL courses. Sharing Ideas through each other as peers is a powerful approach in education. We design hundreds of lessons during the year, we deal with the same students, we have the same routine, we as teachers speak the same language. So why not share the little bits we know, learn and value? These T+L mornings give us the opportunity to share an example of best practice in the classroom and we learn a lot more from each other when its delivered in a practical sense. I look forward to the rest of the T+L mornings to come during the year to continue sharing ideas and practices in the classroom with my peers.
Miss M. Piare
Miss M. Piare
