Teachers Inspire Ireland Podcast
1) 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 in May. The awards were presented by our curator, and podcas...Show More
2) The 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! The former student is American comedian and actress Quinta Br...Show More
3) 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 Teacher Fellowship Programme. It is a unique programme offered by...Show More
4) 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 so many more women than men picking teaching as a career, ...Show More
5) 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 moving and powerful nominations are from parents and often it i...Show More
6) 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 announced last year to make it an even friendlier campus for aut...Show More
7) 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 was not in the right body. He tells her about the day he s...Show More
8) 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. The students are experienced secondary school teachers fro...Show More
9) 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 some 15 years ago he was a Year Head in another school where ...Show More
10) 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 Louise to talk about the teachers at primary and second level...Show More