Clara Maria Fiorentini

Free webinar on Informational Text in the Senior Primary Classroom, tomorrow at 7pm: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Increased capacity! Recording & resource pack included for all registered 📚⬇️

Increased capacity! Recording & resource pack included for all registered 📚⬇️

Registration is open for this two hour webinar on August 26! Places limited: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Summer course season is fast approaching! Lots of great options @marinoinstitute.bsky.social as per usual! www.mie.ie/en/study_wit...

So looking forward to this 👏💡🌊 Join us from 7-8pm on Wednesday evening.
✅ beautiful texts
✅ engaging activities 📖✍️🗣️
✅ suited to primary teachers of all ages & stages
✅playback recording available to all who register 🎥

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Some really interesting perspectives on choosing ‘read-alikes’ and not relying on texts that we’ve always used or are more familiar to us. Using the familiar to reinvigorate our choices and supplementing our comfort texts to build knowledge 🙌🏻🥰
@clarafiorentini.bsky.social
#edchatie

Time for my regular post for new writers about picture books.
You do NOT need illustrations to submit a picture book text to an agent or publisher. Please do not pay anyone to create illustrations for you. It’s not necessary, you just need the text.

Very excited about our symposium on assessment in literacy this March and even more excited to hear from our special guest Dr Jan Hasbrouck. Registration is open now. literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/z2z3M...

Dr Jan Hasbrouck is joining us for our next literacy symposium on March 8.
Registration now open: literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/z2z3M...

Structured Literacy | Teaching By Science Evidence Based Education

Does research suggest that structured literacy is more effective than balanced literacy? I’ve spent a long time trying to answer this question, here are my current thoughts:

www.teachingbyscience.com/systematic-p...

Abstract text: Intensive debate surrounds integration, pedagogy, and assessment in educational research. While these fundamental concepts have regularly been explored individually, they have rarely been considered in tandem with each other. Research (Burke & Lehane, 2023a, 2023b) to support the redevelopment of the Primary School Curriculum has highlighted a number of critical issues for their design and enactment, both individually and in concert. In this article, we chart the affordances and challenges of curriculum integration, highlighting principles that might inform its curricular and classroom implementation. The manifold perspectives on pedagogy are synthesised to highlight convergence and contradiction in the available literature. The crucial role of assessment in sustaining ongoing learning is outlined. In synthesising the literature from these areas, the article looks back and projects forwards, identifying meaningful innovations, potential issues and key implications for the coming period of curriculum reform.

What do we need to bear in mind as we move forward with a new Primary School Curriculum?

In a new article for the Irish Teachers' Journal, @paulalehane.bsky.social and I highlight key points from two research reports we published last year.

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Thank you!

Two weeks on and this is still going. If you are interested in joining, let me know. go.bsky.app/8FJAkMG

Can I join please? Thanks Joe! 😊

It’s back!

In one week’s time #edchatie discusses education under a new government.

Tune in at 7.30 on Mon 2nd December.

Final tweaks ahead of tomorrow evening's webinar on effective use of novels in the senior primary classroom. Packed with lots of great text recommendations- and as always, plenty by Irish authors & illustrators! #discoveririshkidsbooks
Free registration: westcorkeducationcentre.ie/webinar/2823...

Completely agree 👏

Yay! Great to see you over here Niall 👏

Great to attend the launch of the DCU Centre for Literacy Research, Policy & Practice this evening. The marvellous turnout on a cold Tuesday evening is a reflection of the great interest and commitment to literacy research in Ireland 👏 @dcuioe.bsky.social @patjburke.bsky.social

Thank you ☺️

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A bunch of #literacy focused #EdChatIE folk have started appearing on BlueSky.

A Starter Pack for this interesting intersection:
go.bsky.app/QtfSG3e

I've surely missed some new joiners - and will hopefully welcome many more very soon!

#WeknowourABCs

Could you add me too, please? 📚☺️

The lamp is back on my newsfeed. Now this really feels like old times 👏💚

Delighted to see you over here Helen. Hadn’t seen your posts on the other place in ages!

Yay! Thanks Patrick!

Great to see so many familiar names appearing in this nice airy space ☺️

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Could I be added too, please? Thanks😊