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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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26:48

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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33:00

Unsanitised: Blended Learning and Back to School...

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

2020/08/12

I remember my classroom when I was in primary school - rows of seats, talking wasn’t really allowed, a lot of sitting down in the same place doing bookwork, everyone facing the blackboard. What will the new pandemic classroom look like and how will we have to teach the curriculum? In this part, I examine every subject and how we're going to have to teach it. Will technology save the day?

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23:07

Unsanitised Poetry Reading - Circular 49/2020

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

2020/08/10

Last Friday evening there was so much thrown at us that you might have missed a very important circular sent to schools, possibly because it was Friday evening. I was one such person so I decided I'd have a look through it and respond to it live in this special episode. It's all about special leave for staff working in schools during COVID19 and it's super important.

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27:04

Unsanitised: Blended Learning and Back to School...

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

2020/08/07

One thing we can guarantee is that schools will be very different places when we go back to them in a couple of weeks. In this week's episode, I'm going to examine what a pandemic-style classroom is going to have to look like with some tips for teachers for laying out their classrooms. Don't worry, I won't be making you buy single desks.

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30:09

Unsanitised: Blended Learning and Back to School...

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

2020/08/03

The government released their plan for returning to school, which could have been summed up with one emoji - the fingers crossed one. Looking at all the variables, while we're all going to go back to school, I can't see us staying there for that long. With that in mind, I'm looking at what teachers and school leaders might consider when we return to school. In this first part, I'm going to look at: why I don't think we'll be in school for too longwhat blended learning actually iswhat apps schools

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52:42

Unsanitised: A review of the Roadmap for the full...

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

2020/07/28

And all it took was a global pandemic for teaching principals to get a day a week of Admin leave; what will need to happen before the posts of responsibility are restored?In this special episode, I review the several documents as quickly as I can to let you know what's happening for primary schools in the next few weeks. I give my own take on the highs and lows and look forward to a world Post Pandemic where we all have Aides and LWRs, whatever that means.

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56:37

South Dublin and Special Schools

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

2020/07/22

About a year ago, the Department of Education wrote to a load of schools in Dublin 15 to compel them to open Special Classes for Children with Autism. This was because the planning section of the NCSE hadn’t managed to organise the opening of special classes where there was the most need. Somehow, deals were done and Special Classes were opened. Lessons were to be learned and nothing like this could ever happen again. And here we are.

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26:05

Episode 037: Bus Escorts to be employed by Bus Eireann

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

2020/07/15

Ah, the Irish Education System! Overly complex, mired in historical precedence and no one really knowing who is responsible for who. And what better symbol for all the madness than the bus system in schools - known as the school transport scheme. In this episode, I’ll be trying to figure out school buses and if I were the Minister for Education, I would change the system so that bus escorts were employees of Bus Eireann, rather than school Boards of Management.

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01:07:15

episode-special-covid19

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

2020/07/10

There’s a line in Lou Reed’s Perfect Day towards the end, “You’re going to reap just what you sow” which is repeated until the song fades out and it couldn’t be truer for the Department of Education and their handling of the Coronavirus. In this special episode of If I were the Minister for Education, I’m going to see what I would do to reopen schools.

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41:26

Episode 036: Replace Boards of Management

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

2019/12/03

For those of you unfamiliar with primary schools, you might be surprised to know that the Department of Education is not responsible for what happens in any of their schools. You may be further surprised to note that patron bodies also have no responsibility either. Every single primary school in the country is its own private entity and all the responsibility lies with 8 individuals called the Board of Management.

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47:45

Special Episode: We need to talk about the Full...

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

2019/11/26

The NCSE Annual Research Conference took place last week, which basically asked the question, is a fully inclusive school system right for Ireland? They brought over a number of people, including one Jody R Carr, the former Minister for Education of New Brunswick in Canada to talk about a full inclusion model, where all children, whatever their needs, attend their local school in the same classrooms as their peers. In this episode, I’m going to explore this Total Inclusion Model and if I were the

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45:06

Episode 035: Why are we not using technology?

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

2019/11/20

The Irish Times had a headline a couple of weeks ago “Sharp drop in primary pupils using computers in school” which caught my eye. For those of you listening in the future, this headline was written in November 2019 - a time when technology use is ubiquitous in the world and usage in homes is increasing by the day with fibre being finally rolled out to almost every home.In any case, it was a headline that really grabbed by attention. Given my background in technology, this might not come as a

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43:00

Episode 034: Change Infants structure

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

2019/11/13

Junior Infant classes can be a bit of a mix with children ranging from very young 4 year olds to very old 5 year olds and the difference between them is easy to spot, in general. There’s also a very odd leap between pre-school and primary school in loads of ways – never mind the fact that pre-schools are not under the remit of the Department of Education at the moment. I think we need to follow the lead of Europe and not start formal schooling until children reach the year of their 7th birthday –

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