Limerick Education Centre CPD Calendar

We are pleased to offer extra training in the FRIENDS RESILIENCE programmes to all Limerick schools.

Training is offered to class teachers, Special Education Teachers and principals.

- we have a limited number of places available.

- please don't apply through LEC if you are currently on waiting list and have been contacted by NEPS.

On completion of the training course, teachers will be registered as certified facilitators with FRIENDS RESILIENCE.

This will enable schools to order course books and access resources through the online hub for use in their schools. In line with current public health guidelines, the programmes will be delivered online.

In line with the requirements of FRIENDS RESILIENCE AUSTRALIA colleagues are required to attend all sessions  for accreditation.

During this workshop, students will use their senses to analyze and evaluate various replica objects, enabling them to construct historical narratives and interpret what life was like in the Stone Age and Bronze Age.

Helping your child transition from Primary to Secondary School

A Support Group for Primary Teachers in Irish.

After you register for your first meeting you will automatically be eligible to attend any further meetings that will take place.

Term 3 Dates - 01 & 15 June 2022

What is a museum? What kinds of objects are in it? What can we see when we look carefully at art? How can objects tell us about people in the past? Pupils encounter highlights from the diverse collection at the Hunt Museum in a fun and accessible way. Pupils will build their observation skills through problem-solving, investigation, drawing, and discussion. In an age-appropriate way, children explore artistic elements such as shape, line, colour, and texture. Children encounter simple historical concepts.

This workshop encourages pupils to thematically explore objects from Ancient Ireland. It enables pupils to investigate and use as evidence our Bronze Age and Ancient Ireland collections on display in the Hunt Museum. The handling of replica prehistoric artefacts will provide additional opportunities for inquiry-led learning. Pupils will also get to try out some simple prehistoric technologies.

Participants on this PDST TiE course will explore a range of digital tools that they can easily integrate into their classroom. Simple changes in the teaching, learning and assessment tools can increase active learning, cut down on the time spent searching for resources and sources of information and facilitate engaging forms of assessment!

This new PDST TiE summer course focuses on the use of Digital Technologies to support teaching, learning and assessment across a wide range of curricular areas. The course content centers on concrete examples of good practice on the effective, critical and ethical use of Digital Technologies for teaching, learning and assessment, provided to and shared by teachers.

In this popular PDST TiE summer course emphasis will be placed on guiding participants through the features of an online platform to create their own digital teaching, learning and assessment resources to support and enhance pupils’ cross-curricular work.

TEACHER ARTIST PARTNERSHIP CPD SUMMER COURSE 2022 Are you a Teacher who wants to work in partnership with an Artist?

FREE Face-to-Face Summer Course with EPV day approval & opportunities to apply for an Artist in Residence.

This course aims to equip teachers with the knowledge and skills to practise mindfulness in their own lives in order to deliver objective based mindfulness practices to the children in their classes as part of SPHE and the PE curriculum.

Prepare to bring the Primary Language Curriculum to life in your classroom for English and Gaeilge. This face to face summer course, facilitated by the PDST, will highlight practical, playful and engaging learning experiences to develop the learning outcomes. Beidh cothromaíocht le linn na seachtaine idir mhúineadh an Bhéarla agus múineadh na Gaeilge.

This course will help you develop skills, knowledge and supportive ideas on how to observe children's literacy behaviours in order to plan teaching, assess their learning and deepen your knowledge and awareness around matching outcomes to set literacy targets as per the English Curriculum.

Múineadh na Fichille is an opportunity for primary school teachers to learn how to both play and teach chess. This summer course is delivered as Gaeilge and will be of particular interest to teachers in Irish-medium schools interested in bringing chess to their schools/classrooms and to teachers in English-medium schools who would like to polish their scileanna Gaeilge, whilst learning how to play chess.

Chess for Social Skills is like no other summer course as it is extremely hands-on and teacher-centred. Chess is a growing pastime in Irish primary schools with over 200 schools now joined the Ficheall.ie network of teachers promoting chess in primary schools. It is an excellent hobby for students (and teachers) for rainy days and promotes a variety of social and cognitive skills such as respect, forward planning, problem solving, decision making, accepting defeat, understanding resilience and developing a growth mind-set when exploring a new skill; all of which are explicitly addressed in the free beginner lessons available to participants.

Are you a primary school teacher who wants to rejuvenate your teaching approaches and improve the learning experiences of your pupils? If yes, then this is the course for you.

Creative Classrooms, Creative Teachers – Unlocking the Potential of Innovative Methodologies is a Professional Development Programme in Instructional Leadership, developed by Canadian academic, Prof. Barrie Bennett, to enhance learning and teaching repertoires. Instructional Leadership is being implemented in many secondary schools in Ireland and has been described as leading ‘a transformation in teaching and learning’ across the country. NOW is the time to initiate and introduce this exciting approach into our primary school classrooms. Enrol to ensure you are equipped with a toolkit of powerful new strategies for September 2022!

The summer course will provide an opportunity to equip teachers to develop student’s numeracy skills as outlined in the Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life strategy, Stem Education Policy Statement 2017-2026, the National Skills Strategy 2025 and STEAM skills linked to the Creative Schools initiative.

This practical, interactive course will give teachers and school leaders an opportunity to reflect on their own experiences of teaching and learning in SPHE and RSE and how to cultivate a positive culture and climate in their school.

This new summer course from the PDST Primary STEM team will support teachers in developing pupils’ skills, thinking, culture and values in STEM.

This course will give participants a strong foundation in personal wellbeing and tools and strategies to promote it with their students and in their classroom and schools.

The course is designed to be as experiential as possible and will use different practical exercises to boost wellbeing and reduce stress throughout. The course will also give many additional references of other wellbeing resources available today. 

This course aims to equip teachers with the knowledge and skills to practise mindfulness in their own lives in order to deliver objective based mindfulness practices to the children in their classes as part of SPHE and the PE curriculum.