Teachers Themselves
"Teachers Themselves" is a new, engaging podcast designed specifically for educators in Ireland.
Whether you're a seasoned teacher looking to enhance your teaching practices, or a new educator seeking guidance and inspiration, "Teachers Themselves" provides a platform for professional growth and fosters a community of educators who are keen to learn. Join us as we explore the art and science of teaching, inspire each other, and shape the future of education, one episode at a time.
Hosted by DWESC Director, Ultan Mac Mathúna, and featuring insightful guest speakers, all educators themselves, this podcast offers conversational episodes focused on sharing teaching experiences, exploring shared values in education, and fostering a community of passionate educators.
Tune in to "Teachers Themselves" and unlock your full potential as an educator. Together, let's empower ourselves and our students for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
“No written word, no spoken plea, can teach our youth what they should be, nor all the books on all the shelves, it’s what the teachers are themselves.” John Wooden
Teachers Themselves is a DWESC original, produced and created by Dublin West Education Support Centre and produced by Zita Robinson.
Teachers Themselves
Magdalena Landziak's Top Tips for CPD for SNAs
Are you ready to level up your skills as a Special Needs Assistant? Look no further as we bring you an excerpt from the enlightening conversation with Magdalena Landziak, a seasoned educator deeply passionate about additional needs education.
In this bite-size, bonus episode, Magdalena provides her top 3 CPD tips for SNAs planning for the academic year ahead and shares her invaluable three-pronged approach towards continuous professional development for SNAs. She emphasizes the importance of mastering cutting-edge assistive technology, enhancing understanding around Autism for those working in additional classes, and finally, establishing a strong foundation in personal well-being.
You can book CPD this Autumn with dwec.ie and Magdalena:
Challenging Behaviour. Strategies for SNAS
The role of an SNA while supporting students’ well-being
Mood Matters. Wellbeing webinar for SNAs
Dismantling Culinary Culture with Neurodiversity. The role of SEN teachers and SNAs while supporting students acquiring life skills
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Teachers Themselves is a DWEC original, produced and created by Dublin West Education Centre produced by Zita Robinson.
I'm your host, alton MacMahuna. This podcast is brought to you by Dublin West Education Centre. We're located in the grounds of TU D'Talla, serving and supporting the school communities of West Dublin and beyond. In this podcast, I'll be speaking with some of the very talented, dedicated people who bring you your CPD Facilitators with a background in passion for education in Ireland. Educators whose commitment to students and colleagues shines through in their delivery of courses for Dublin West Ed Centre.
Speaker 1:As part of each episode, I ask our guests for their three top tips for the year ahead. Now, here at Dublin West, we know how busy you all are. Maybe you don't have the time right now to listen to the whole episode, so we've made these crucial top tips available to you in bite-size format. Top tips featured in this quick bonus episode are courtesy of Magdalena Langek from her conversation with us here in Dublin West on top tips for SNAs. Here's, magdalena If somebody was starting again as an SNA, or even working for a while as an SNA, and they were thinking of some CPD, what three top tips would you give them for CPD? What three things would you say? Right, these are three things you should really try to get your hands on a bit of training or a bit of CPD, a bit of a course on these three things? What would you pinpoint for them?
Speaker 2:So for me, very important is technology, assistive technology. So that will be the one, I suppose. One thing, just to get familiar with the current technology and how the technology can help children with additional needs. The other thing is we have, like the government open, the special classes, the classes which are attached to the mainstream classrooms. So I will advise anybody who is going to work in a special class to get as much training around autism, just to make sure you know exactly what to do with the children on spectrum.
Speaker 2:And the other thing I will say, just maybe to find a course about well-being, because I feel that when the well-being of an SNA teacher or principal or director is good, the whole environment will feel also good. And I think, if we will start practice, there's lots of talks about well-being for children and teenagers and there's lots of things around well-being, wellness, and I think it's very important to keep a good life-work balance and just to learn a few techniques, because our job, our profession, is very fulfillment but sometimes it's also challenging and you have to know how to cope with stress, with stressful situation in school environment. So, yeah, so those will be the three topics for me Life-technology, autism and well-being.
Speaker 1:If you find these top tips useful, let us know, share with colleagues and don't forget to set aside time to listen to the whole episode Well worth the listen and never longer than 40 minutes. See you next week for another episode of Teachers Themselves. Don't forget to like and subscribe, leave us a review and share it with colleagues and friends. Your feedback informs the show. You can follow us across our social media channels Instagram, twitter, linkedin. Facebook Links are in the show notes. If you have any thoughts on today's episode or suggestions for future topics, email Zita here at zrobbinson at dwecie. Oh, and don't forget to book that CPD dwecie. Thanks again. Have a great week. Slan Tamil.
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Speaker 1:Themselves is a Dwec original Produced and created by Dublin West Education Center.
