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Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education

How many times have you said to yourself, "If I were the Minister for Education…?" Well I do! Rather than grumble to myself, I decided to podcast my thoughts on ways I"d change the primary education system in Ireland. Every episode I"ll take on a different theme, give some background and hopefully come to some conclusions by the end. simonmlewis.substack.com

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26:47

Episode 042: Outsource Obesity

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/11/06

It's probably be fair to say that education is no longer the sole function of primary schools these days. Over the last decade or so, schools have now taken on functions of meal-providers, counsellors, psychologists, occupational therapists, web safety gurus, sex educators, religious missionaries, dieticians, social workers, attendance officers, and so on. For every ill in society, it seems that schools are being asked to plug the gap in the 5 hours and 40 minutes per day that we see children. It's

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01:07:44

Mid Term Break. What Mid Term Break?

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/11/04

October 23rd. A fairly insignificant date. But to principals this year, it was the date they couldn’t wait for as it was to signal mid-term break, and for most of them, their first day off work since mid-February when there was a small mutterings about a virus that had come from Wuhan in China and seemed to be causing problems in Italy where bunches of teenagers were skiing on their transition year school trips. However, for many school leaders having a break didn't happen. In this episode, I

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35:19

Episode 041: Add an Initiative, Remove an Initiative

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/10/22

Since 2011, schools have been inundated with new initiatives from the Department of Education. However, other agencies have also dumped their workload on schools too. In this episode I point the finger of blame while proposing a solution that if a new initiative is to come into schools, one must be removed first.

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38:12

Special Episode: What now for Schools during Level 5?

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/10/20

Schools are to remain open in Level 5 but can we do it safely? In this episode, I explore what's been happening over the last few days and ask the Twitterati what they think we need to do to keep schools open safely.

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29:54

Episode 040: Secretaries to be paid directly by DES

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/10/15

If you work in a primary school, one thing you can probably be sure about is that the Department of Education will pay you. Well, that is unless you happen to be the school secretary or another member of what is affectionately called ancillary staff. In probably one of the least controversial episodes of this podcast, If I were the Minister for Education I would ensure that Secretaries would be paid directly by the DES.

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21:34

Budget 2021 - A Reaction

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/10/13

While I don't think anyone was expecting much from this year's budget, at least none of us were surprised. Here's my reaction.

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34:48

Poetry Reading: Guidance on Remote Learning in a...

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/10/08

Any time an important circular or guidance document is released by the Department of Education, I do a live reading of it to try and make sense of it for myself, but also, hopefully to explain it to you. It might save you a bit of time reading it yourself too! This document was released very quietly by the DES today about planning for remote learning. I wonder why!

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33:17

Episode 39: Scrap Homework

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/10/08

Homework is still one of the most divisive things you can talk about. If you surveyed everyone in the country about whether they think you should scrap homework or not, you’d get a 50-50 response. In this episode, I’m going to explore homework at primary school, some of the reasons why teachers and parents and society seem to want to keep it, despite all the evidence, and I’ll be arguing that if I were the Minister for Education, I would scrap homework in its current form.

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45:15

Special Episode: What if we go to Level 5?

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/10/06

On Sunday evening, NPHET announced they were recommending that Ireland moved to Level 5 restrictions. My Monday, the government had rejected the recommendation and imposed Level 3 on the country. But what would school look like at Level 5? I asked Anseo.net listeners and these are their thoughts.

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50:55

Episode 038: Reduce the Number of Stakeholders

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/10/01

Have you ever wondered what happens at these consultations when the Department of Education meets with all the education stakeholders? I always did and wondered what it would look like. And one day, I got that chance. I was invited to represent one education stakeholder regarding a new Department of Education initiative. I went in expecting to be one of about 8 people, maybe fewer. However, as soon as I walked into the Clock Tower room of the inner sanctum, I could see exactly why the education

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35:12

A Principal's Experience of a COVID19 Case and what...

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/09/24

The most popular post I've ever published was this week and I didn’t even write it. It was from a principal who had a positive COVID19 case in his school and his experience of how it was dealt with. In this episode, I’ll be reading his experience and adding my own thoughts. I’ll also be talking a little bit about the DES requiring principals to be on call 24 hours a day and how inspectors have again forgotten the note that they are there to support schools.

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40:15

Back to School: The Good, The Bad, and The Flat Out...

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/09/18

To me Flat Out Busy refers to the agencies and organisations that spent their summers scurrying around scurrying, attending Zoom meetings about meetings, and making statements about statements that they were going to make. They were neither fully good or fully bad and they had the best of intentions but for all the time since lockdown, they didn’t actually manage to achieve very much.

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26:48

Back to School: The Good, The Bad and The Flat Out...

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/09/11

Last week, I focused on the people that made lockdown and the reopening of schools a more tolerable experience. This week I'm focusing on the bad, and despite a very long list of candidates, only 1 organisation could really fit the bill. Find out which organisation who somehow managed to use the lockdown to make further cuts by stealth and left the education system in a worse place than it was before school buildings shut down.

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31:18

Back to School: The Good, The Bad and The Flat Out Busy

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/09/04

In this episode, I’m going to try and celebrate the first week back to school and the almost unanimous sigh of relief that all the weeks of line painting, partition-building, hot water pumping, traffic planning, sign making, risk assessing, policy writing, health and safety checking, LWR begging, classroom laying, garda vetting, cleaner hunting, Friday evening circular reading, and all the times where we woke up in the middle of the night remembering something else we had to be doing… it had finally

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13:39

Unsanitised: Blended Learning (Part 4)

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/08/27

The last part of my live Q&A session about blended learning where I tell you what blended learning is not, how self-isolating teachers might teach, and the must-have settings on Zoom. All in less than 13 minutes.

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30:04

Unsanitised: Blended Learning Q&A (Part 3)

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/08/26

Do you know at the end of a talk when the presenter asks does anyone have any questions, and the room goes silent? Well, I asked Facebook and Twitter that very question about blended learning and here's the result - the 3rd of 4 mini-episodes on blended learning. Think of them like the Appendix at the end of a Friday night DES circular.

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30:37

Unsanitised: Blended Learning Q&A (Part 2)

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/08/24

Do you know at the end of a talk when the presenter asks does anyone have any questions, and the room goes silent? Well, I asked Facebook and Twitter that very question about blended learning and here's the result - the 2nd of 4 mini-episodes on blended learning. Think of them like the Appendix at the end of a Friday night DES circular.

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31:14

Unsanitised: Blended Learning Q&A (Part1)

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/08/23

Do you know at the end of a talk when the presenter asks does anyone have any questions, and the room goes silent? Well, I asked Facebook and Twitter that very question about blended learning and here's the result - the first of 4 mini-episodes on blended learning. Think of them like the Appendix at the end of a Friday night DES circular.

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34:02

Unsanitised: Blended Learning and Back to School...

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/08/19

It's Day 1 of the school year. It's all a bit weird and scary as the squeeze 30 children into your unventilated classroom, all of them breathing in your direction with only the mask you grabbed in Dealz the day before protecting you from potential COVID19. What better way to start the year by teaching them how to use a device for remote learning and blended learning?

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33:47

Unsanitised: Blended Learning and Back to School...

Anseo.net - If I were the Minister for Education ·

2020/08/17

Cases are rising, counties are in almost lockdown, there’s more cases growing daily than there was when schools originally closed in March, it seems like the virus is one that’s airborne, all the experts are becoming very wary of a 2nd wave. It sounds like a perfect time to fully reopen schools! In this 4th part, I'll be looking at what to do to prepare for blended learning before the children sit down in their seats.

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