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Teachers creating materials?

  • 12-11-2013 6:32am
    #1
    Pixie Chief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭


    Hi guys.

    Just wondering if many teachers on here create their own materials to fill gaps in the text books and if so, what is the most often needed subject/area/age group where you need to do this?


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  • #2
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    I work in a Gaelscoil so our staff are constantly creating their own resources for all ages and all subjects.


  • #3
    Pixie Chief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭Pixie Chief


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    I work in a Gaelscoil so our staff are constantly creating their own resources for all ages and all subjects.

    Thank you ...... Really hadn't thought about gaelscoileanna (if that's the right extension - never did Irish!). Are there not regular textbooks in Irish at all then?


  • #4
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Yes, there are textbooks but very little choice, so if you want to differentiate a topic or have extra revision etc., you can't print stuff off the net or copy and paste from various sites in English, you have to compile you own stuff.

    ETA Thanks heavens for seomraranga.com


  • #5
    paleo muinteoir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭paleo muinteoir


    I'm another gaelscoil teacher here - and I'd say the same.
    Even simple things like alphabet posters etc - there are endless variations in english to download etc, but when a is no longer for apple - there's nothing (or at least very very little). So out comes the scissors, the glue, the markers and the laminators.
    It's neverending.


  • #6
    Chickus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭Chickus


    we don't have books in our infant classes as they are glorified colouring books...we make relevant worksheets and posters, displays etc.
    They have workbooks up the school but teachers also do resources and make learning interactive, interesting and fun.
    I work in a Disadvantaged school and I know its the same for any of my friends in other schools


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  • #7
    Pixie Chief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭Pixie Chief


    Thanks guys for all the replies. I had seen myself in a few schools that I've worked (not a teacher!) just how much construction of materials they did and wondered if it were universal. Makes you wonder what the textbooks are for really.


  • #8
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    I have seen so much effort put in by the teachers to make maths fun and easy but again it is in Gaelscoileanna.


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