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Support Groups for Teaching Principals Term 3 May 22nd-26th

These face to face sessions for Teaching Principals, which aim to build professional networks among school leaders, will allow participants explore how best to lead and mediate change to respond to the evolving needs of their schools while providing an opportunity for personal and collaborative reflection and will explore how to use Looking at Our Schools 2022 to improve 'teaching & learning' in a practical way.  These in-person sessions will be held termly in Athlone Education Support Centre and participants will be grouped based on Principal Release Days. Lunch will be provided for participants.

Term 2: May 22nd-May 26th. Register for your preferred date through our website. 

TL21 Information Session for Principals/Deputy Principals (Post Primary) Tuesday May 2nd @ 2p.m.

Athlone  Education Support Centre is planning to offer the TL21 programme for 2023/2025.

The programme has a number of key aims (https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/tl21) including:

·      to address the isolation and insulation that teachers can and do experience in their

day-to-day professional lives;

·      to strengthen teachers' capacities as the "authors" of their own work – to encourage and support them in actively engaging with a wider repertoire of active teaching strategies and

·      to encourage students to become more active and responsible participants in their own learning.

We will work with a cluster of post-primary schools in the Athlone Education Support Centre's catchment area and the following is a brief outline of what is involved for schools that participate in TL21.

  • The TL21 Programme is a two-year programme.
  • The programme is not a series of lectures; rather a series of collaborative professional development workshops planned in a developmental sequence.
  • There will be 5 workshop sessions in a school year.
  • Each school may like to suggest the themes or aspects of teaching and learning they would like to address: e.g. assessment, AfL strategies, differentiation etc.
  • Each participating school will have the opportunity to progress the chosen theme(s) in their own school and report back on progress to the whole group of schools participating.
  • Ideally there should be five participating teachers per school and the Principal or a Deputy Principal.
  • Full attendance is expected.

To support you in making a decision and commitment to TL21, we have arranged an Information Session for Principals and or Deputy Principals in Athlone Education Support Centre on Tuesday May 2nd at 2pm – 3p.m. (A light lunch will be provided at 1.30pm)

  To register, please click HERE

 

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