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Attendee Programme Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil
WELCOME!
Thank you for registering for FÉILTE 2020!
FÉILTE 2020 will take place online via Hopin.to
on 3 October 2020 from 10:30 – 16:30
You will receive reminders with your attendee link to
attend 24 hours prior the event and also 1 hour before
FÉILTE 2020 kicks off!
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access to FÉILTE 2020 on event day.
You can enter FÉILTE 2020 five minutes before NETWORKING
the event starts, make sure to head in and join
SESSIONS
us Live on the Main Stage.
We look forward to seeing you there! EXPO
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil
EVENT SCHEDULE
TIME DESCRIPTION HOPIN AREA
10:30 FÉILTE 2020 Opening with Butterfly Lockdown Stories & Introduction by FÉILTE Host Phil Fox Stage
Norma Foley, Minister for Education
10:40 Welcome by: Stage
Seán McMahon, Chair of The Teaching Council
Live Keynote Interview and Live Q&A with:
10:50 Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland & Former Tomás Ó Ruairc, Director of The Teaching Council Stage
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic: Challenges
12:00 - 13:00 Live Panel Discussion Chaired by Phil Fox Stage
and Opportunities
13:00 Rock ‘n’ Roll Kids Entertainment Stage
13:05 Closing Talks by Tomás Ó Ruairc Stage
13:15 - 16:30 Breakout Areas Open All Areas
13:15 - 16:30 Expo Area Opens: Showcases | Workshops | TeachMeets Expo
13:15 - 16:30 Networking Area Opens Networking
13:15 - 14:45 ResearchMeet Sessions
Juggling Quadratic Equations and other Maths
13:30 - 14:00 Live STEM Workshop Sessions
Applications
13:30 - 14:00 Live Wellbeing Workshop Self Care & Wellbeing for Teachers Sessions
13:30 - 14:00 Live Inclusion Workshop Understanding and Supporting your Dyslexic Learners Sessions
13:30 - 14:00 Live Digital Workshop Quick ICT Wins for Engagement in the Classroom Sessions
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil
EVENT SCHEDULE
TIME DESCRIPTION HOPIN AREA
‘From the Lecture Room to the Classroom: How Research Live StudentMeet Panel Discussion Chaired by Dr Aimie
14:00 - 15:00 Stage
Enhances Practice across the Teaching Continuum’ Brennan
Unconscious Bias Training: Promoting Inclusion and
14:30 - 15:00 Live Inclusion Workshop Sessions
Equity For All
Ubuntu Learning; Empathy and Community in Education
14:30 - 15:00 Live Wellbeing Workshop Sessions
through Restorative Practice
14:30 - 15:00 Live Cross Curricular Workshop Connecting Through Creativity Sessions
Harnessing TEL to Lead Change in Apprentice
14:30 - 15:00 Live Digital Workshop Sessions
Programmes
15:00 - 16:00 LeadershipMeet Sessions
15:00 - 16:00 TeachMeet Sessions
15:00 - 16:30 ResearchMeet Booth Opens Expo
15:15 - 16:30 StudentMeet Graduate Research Booth Opens Expo
How Data and Visual Literacy Tools Enhance Student
15:30 - 16:00 Live Digital & STEM Workshop Sessions
Engagement and Learning
15:30 - 16:00 Live Collaborative Practice Workshop The Power and Capacity of Purposeful Reflection Sessions
Giving Students a Voice: Restorative Practice in the Post-
15:30 - 16:00 Live Wellbeing Workshop Sessions
Primary School
15:30 - 16:00 Live Teaching Methodologies Workshop A Guide to Critical Thinking for Second Level Students Sessions
16:30 FÉILTE 2020 Closes All Areas
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil
SPEAKERS
Norma Foley Tomás Ó Ruairc
Minister for Director of The
Education Teaching Council
Mary Robinson
Phil Fox
Former President of Ireland
FÉILTE Host & Deputy
Former UN High Commissioner Director of The
for Human Rights Teaching Council
Adjunct Professor for Climate Seán McMahon
Justice in Trinity College Dublin
Chair of The Teaching
Chair of The Elders Council
AND MANY MORE!
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil
EVENT AREAS
RECEPTION STAGE SESSIONS EXPO
Here you will find: Here you will find the FÉILTE 2020 Main Stage that Here you will find:
Here you will find:
• Live FÉILTE 2020 schedule features: • Live Workshops
• Showcases
• Speakers throughout the day • Butterfly Lockdown Stories • ResearchMeet
• Workshops
• All event areas to explore • Launch of festival by Minister for Education, Norma Foley • LeadershipMeet
• Tips on how best to navigate • FÉILTE Host, Phil Fox • TeachMeets
• TeachMeet
through all areas of FÉILTE • Welcome by Seán McMahon, Chair of The Teaching • Lockdown Stories
• Information on Showcases, Council Check out the sessions
Workshops, Meets and more! area of FÉILTE to join • StudentMeet Graduate
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Kids Entertainment - Music collaboration Research Booth
between students, parents & teachers around the into live breakout
country! sessions. There is The Expo area hosts a library of
plenty of live breakout content for attendees to visit,
NETWORKING • Live Keynote Interview with Former President of Ireland,
elements to attend
Mary Robinson with Tomás Ó Ruairc, Director of The check out the themed FÉILTE
and engage in with Showcases, Workshops and
• The Networking Area allows Teaching Council
twelve different Live TeachMeets at your own pace and
you to meet fellow attendees • Live Panel Discussion ‘Teaching & Learning During a Workshops throughout
on live video chats interact live with the Presenters
Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities’ chaired by Phil the day, as well as via the chat box in each booth and
• Join, connect and share your Fox multiple Meets sessions connect further.
stories among the teaching • Live StudentMeet Panel Discussion ‘From the Lecture that will be highlighting
community Room to the Classroom: How Research Enhances Attendees can view the FÉILTE
different methods,
• Create some exciting new Practice across the Teaching Continuum’ chaired by 2020 Expo Area Guide for full
projects and resources
connections and get the Dr Aimie Brennan
information on Showcases,
by teachers all across
FÉILTE festival feeling! Workshops & TeachMeets.
• Live Closing Talks with Tomás Ó Ruairc Ireland.
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncilPANEL DISCUSSION
– TEACHING THROUGH A PANDEMIC
Live Panel Discussion 12:00 – 13:00
Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities
PJ Ryan Cecilia Munro Tracie Tobin Aoileann Mooney Michael
Chaired by Parent Principal, Ballyfermot Principal, St Michael’s Post-primary Student, McGroarty
Phil Fox College of Further Infant School in Limerick St Peter’s College, Post-primary Teacher:
Education City Dunboyne, Co. Meath Irish, History and
Religion. Loreto
Community School,
Milford, Co Donegal
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncilPANEL DISCUSSION
– TEACHING THROUGH A PANDEMIC
FÉILTE’s theme of ‘Collaborating to Connect: Empathy with our We have always known that schools are at the heart of communities
Communities’ has perhaps never been more appropriate than now. around Ireland, but it isn’t the school buildings that create the pulse,
None of us could have predicted what happened in March 2020, the it’s the dedication of everyone in the school community. Teachers
entire country locking down. Teachers, students and workers told to rising professionally to meet the challenge; parents working from
stay home, and to exercise within a 2km radius. home while parenting within work, and students learning a whole new
meaning to ‘home work’.
One of the remarkable features of our humanity is our ability to adapt
and adjust, so we did! Teachers suddenly found themselves trying to While our communities have had to stay apart to keep each other
figure out how to reach and connect with their students; parents found safe, in many ways this has connected us like never before. We find
themselves having to homeschool their children, without ever having ourselves in a situation where, in coping with a common foe, we can
planned for it, while the children reacted in different ways depending empathise more easily in a shared experience with neighbours, older
on their age and background. people and those who live alone.
School buildings have now re-opened and we are operating in a This panel will discuss the range of challenges and opportunities faced
‘new normal’. by the community in a world where everything is changing at a pace
that is hard to keep up with. It will explore the many beneficial aspects
of the teaching and learning experience in the time of COVID-19 with
a view to identifying and continuing the best practices that have been
strongly demonstrated throughout the profession to date.
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncilPANEL DISCUSSION – STUDENTMEET PANEL
Live StudentMeet Panel Discussion 14:00 – 15:00
From the Lecture Room to the Classroom:
How Research Enhances Practice across the Teaching Continuum
It can sometimes feel that the academic work This panel of NQTs and principals from
CHAIRED BY AIMIE BRENNAN of a student teacher doesn’t always relate to primary, post-primary and further education
the practical job of a teacher. But perhaps will address the audience of student teachers
the psychologist Kurt Lewin had teaching in to discuss the impact that research has on
PANEL MEMBERS:
mind when he said, their teaching practice.
Marie O’Callaghan, FE teacher and PLC ‘There is Nothing so Practical as a From active to formal research, teachers are
Coordinator, College of Further Education and Good Theory!’ life-long learners and they bring this love of
Training, Ennis Campus learning to their classrooms.
Rachel O’Connor, Principal, Ramsgrange The panel will also address any burning
Community School in Co. Wexford questions that student teachers may have
Martin Carey, Post-primary Teacher; Gaeilge and are on hand to offer advice and guidance.
and Business Studies. Coláiste Phobal Ros Cré,
Co. Tipperary
Lisa Plunkett, Primary Teacher
Conor Thompson, Further Education Teacher
Morgan Doran, Principal, Rush National School
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil13:30 – 14:00 LIVE WORKSHOPS
TITLE DESCRIPTION THEME PRESENTED BY AREA
Juggling Quadratic Study the Maths involved in juggling and learn how to learn. This workshop is
Sean Mc
Equations and other ideal for use in Transition Year and is not restricted to the Maths classroom. STEM Sessions
Weeney
Maths Applications All you need is three pairs of socks.
Last year we noticed so many teachers with low energy and feeling exhausted.
This year we would like to share some techniques from the Pranic Healing
System to help them:
1. Boost up their immune system
Self Care & Wellbeing 2. Increase their energy levels Katherine
Wellbeing Sessions
for Teachers McKenna
3. Share some techniques to help them manage stress and anxiety
4. Increase their mental clarity
Some of these techniques include deep abdominal breathing, exercises,
meditation, super brain yoga and much much more.
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil13:30 – 14:00 LIVE WORKSHOPS
TITLE DESCRIPTION THEME PRESENTED BY AREA
This workshop is designed to help educators understand first-hand the reading
and writing challenges often experienced by students with dyslexia.
Understanding and
The workshop aims to develop an understanding of dyslexia and the nature Caoimhe O'
Supporting your Inclusion Sessions
of both strengths and challenges that a dyslexic may experience while Malley
Dyslexic Learners
highlighting the vital role of the emotional climate and the dyslexia friendly
environment to ensure equity and equality for all.
Quick ICT Wins for This workshop will look at how to raise engagement (categorized in this
Engagement in the seminar as behavioral, emotional and cognitive engagement) in the classroom Digital Stephen Daly Sessions
Classroom or remotely through the use of one to one digital devices.
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil14:30 - 15:00 LIVE WORKSHOPS
TITLE DESCRIPTION THEME PRESENTED BY AREA
This unconscious bias workshop is designed to create an awareness, among
members of school management and teachers of all subjects, about the
barriers that can inhibit students from engaging in particular subjects at
Unconscious Bias primary and secondary school. Deirdre
Training: Promoting O'Neill
Investigating your own personal unconscious biases and the biases of your Inclusion Sessions
Inclusion and Equity & Eilish
For All students can impact student interactions and student-teacher relations McLoughlin
within the classroom. The outcome of this workshop is to raise awareness of
strategies that can minimize negative biases in the classroom / school culture
and promote inclusivity and equity for all in Irish education.
Ubuntu is a South African word meaning each person’s humanity is bound up
Ubuntu Learning; with the humanity of others.
Empathy and
This is as the heart of Restorative Practice which is a philosophy that Michelle
Community in Education Wellbeing Sessions
resonates deeply with the theme of empathy in our communities, moving Stowe
through Restorative
Practice conversations beyond ‘behaviour management’ and towards relational
learning.
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil14:30 - 15:00 LIVE WORKSHOPS
TITLE DESCRIPTION THEME PRESENTED BY AREA
Jennifer
Using key learning from Teacher Artist Partnership (TAP) and Europe
Buggie, Vera
Connecting Through in Perspective (EiP, Europe-In-Perspective.eu) initiatives, this workshop Cross
McGrath Sessions
Creativity promotes diversity and collaboration by bringing participants on a journey Curricular
& Susan
from their own perspective towards that of others through creativity.
O'Keeffe
The showcase will look at the how MSLETB is embedding technology enhanced
learning in new apprenticeship programmes to lead change.
Edel Gavan,
We will take a holistic view of the learner journey commencing with their
Harnessing TEL to Lead Siobhan
comprehensive induction programme followed by looking at their ‘on-the-Job’
Change in Apprentice Digital Magner & Sessions
work experience, ‘off the-Job’ learning in face-to-face workshops and their
Programmes Brendan
online learning environment.
Geraghty
The apprenticeship follows the ‘earn and learn’ model; designed to empower
the apprentice with underpinning knowledge, skills and competencies.
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil15:30 - 16:00 LIVE WORKSHOPS
TITLE DESCRIPTION THEME PRESENTED BY AREA
This workshop will provide practical support and strategic plans for teachers
who would like to include the use of digital and visual literacy skills as a tool
for their students. See examples of improved learning outcomes and student
work when using software that facilitates data literacy and analytics of the
wealth of data our young students have access to.
Practical Examples and
Learn how to access this data and bring it into your classroom for your
Software Demonstration
students to analyze and research. Digital & Jennifer
to Teach Students Sessions
STEM Stack
Digital and Visual Examples will be shown of how my students chose a sustainable development
Literacy Skills goal to further enhance their learning outcomes and experience within a
standard subject. This workshop will aim to provide you with a plan and all the
required information and resources to begin teaching your students how to
apply data and visual literacy tools and knowledge to further enhance their
own learning, and ability to them communicate their learning outcomes in a
broader sense.
A Guide to Critical In this workshop, I hope to go through some methods I’ve been working on to
Teaching
Thinking for Second teach students to think critically, formulate rounded opinions about any topic Darren Clancy Sessions
Methodologies
Level Students and answer difficult, reflective questions.
Féilte 2020 @TeachingCouncil15:30 - 16:00 LIVE WORKSHOPS
TITLE DESCRIPTION THEME PRESENTED BY AREA
We composed and ‘test drove’ thirty-six reflective strategies, to empower a
mosaic of different learning dispositions. We would ask participants to action
two strategies, allowing for strategy choice and flexibility. Thomas
The Power and Capacity We would then engage in a professional dialogue with participants re: Collaborative Ahern, Sinéad
Sessions
of Purposeful Reflection strategy strengths, challenges and alternatives. Our project would also have Practice McDonald &
a takeaway, in our ‘On Reflection’ online cache, offering participants access Joe McEvoy
to all reflective strategies to use on their terms, and at their convenience, in
their local and individual settings.
Following on from this year’s theme of Collaborating to Connect, this workshop
Giving Students a Voice: aims to provide teachers with some tools for building empathy with students
Restorative Practice by implementing dialogue in the classroom, particularly when discipline Claire
problems arise. Wellbeing Sessions
in the Post-Primary Tuttlebee
School We will be looking at research-based practical tools teachers can work with to
problem-solve with students in the post-primary classroom.
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