Meet the four Teachers Inspire awardees of 2023
We conclude the series by meeting the four teachers who were presented with their Teachers Inspire award for 2023 at a special event in DCU...
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Teachers Inspire Ireland
Teachers Inspire is an Ireland-wide initiative that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise the transformative role they play in our lives and in our communities. Hosted by acclaimed au...
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20 of 38 episodesThe teacher who inspired Abbott Elementary
For our penultimate episode we talk to Joyce Abbott, a teacher who inspired a student to name a hit TV series, set in a school, after her! T...
DCU’s unique Teacher Fellowship Programme
Providing teachers with the opportunity to work with student teachers while also progressing their own studies, is at the heart of the Teach...
Why are there more ‘Miss’ teachers than ‘Mr’ ?
The Teachers Inspire awardees have come from primary and secondary school level. One question we have frequently pondered is why there are s...
Teachers Inspire awardee Gemma Maher
For the final time in this series we meet one of the 2022 Teachers Inspire awardees and the parent who nominated her. Some of the most movin...
DCU - valuing autistic students and staff
DCU is unique when it comes to autism because in 2018, it became the world's first designated autism-friendly university and plans were anno...
The freedom to be who you are
The teenage years bring challenges for all young people. For this episode Louise is joined by Jacob Donegan who by the age of six knew he wa...
DCU’s Graduate Diploma in SPHE/RSE - underpinned by a rights-based and inclusive approach.
Louise is joined by Drs Kay Maunsell and Leanne Coll who, with their DCU colleagues, deliver a ground breaking Graduate Diploma in SPHE/RSE....
What Teachers Inspire is all about
It is time to meet another of the Teachers Inspire awardees of 2022. Ruairi Farrell is the Principal of Greystones Community College but som...
Dr Katriona O’Sullivan and the teachers she has never forgotten
Her memoir ‘Poor” has been a bestseller for months, it has won two awards in recent weeks and in this episode Dr Katriona O’Sullivan joins L...
Young children and STEM education
Free play and fun, Lego and Barbie all get a mention in this fascinating discussion Louise has with Prof Hamsa Venkat, the Naughton Family C...
Mixed or single-sex schools?
Two secondary school principals join Louise to discuss one of the big questions for parents, and students, when it comes to selecting a seco...
A million reasons to nominate…
There is no better way to start the 2023 podcast series than with one of our most recent awardees. Louise is joined by Joe McAndrew who may...
The DCU Teachers Inspire Awardees
For the final episode of this series the podcast comes to you from DCU, the home of Teachers Inspire. A special event was held there for the...
Professor Mathias Urban, Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre (ECRC) at Dublin City University
Professor Mathias Urban, Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Educate and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre at DCU is Louise’s gue...
Well known mathematician and broadcaster Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin discusses her passion for education and STEM in particular.
In this episode Louise is joined by Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin. An Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics & Statistics at UCD, D...
DCU’s STEM Teacher Internship Programme (STInt) gives student teachers the opportunity to work in leading STEM companies.
In this episode Louise hears about a unique programme that DCU offers student teachers at primary and secondary level. The STEM Teacher Inte...
DCU’s Changemaker Schools Network is helping to empower primary school children.
This episode looks at DCU’s Changemaker Schools Network which is a collaborative, professional, learning network of 19 primary schools from...
Nominations for Teachers Inspire 2022 remind us that teachers can help change lives
Every year Teachers Inspire receives nominations that continue to remind us of the role teachers can play and how sometimes a single sentenc...
DCU Alumni, now working in the education sector, share their stories.
DCU Alumni can be found around the globe and in this episode Louise is joined by two who remain deeply committed to education. They are Dear...