(Gaeilge) Imní ar scoileanna Gaeltachta maidir le ráiteas na Roinne i leith soláthar múinteoirí d’fheidhmiú an Pholasaí Oideachas Gaeltachta
February 15, 2017
(Gaeilge) Imní san Iarthar faoin bpolasaí oideachais Gaeltachta
February 15, 2017
Coláiste Ghlór na Mara – Príomhoide le Ceapadh
February 15, 2017
Coláiste Ghlór na Mara
Iarbhunscoil a d’oscail i Meán Fómhair 2014 le freastal ar mhór-cheantar Bhaile Brigín, Co Átha Cliath.
Uimhir Rolla : 68082L
Is mian leis an mBord Bainistíochta a fhógairt go bhfuil Príomhoide le ceapadh, a rachaidh i mbun dualgais ó 20 Márta 2017.
Iarbhunscoil, dheonach, ilchreidmheach, lán-Ghaeilge do chailíní agus buachaillí is ea Coláiste Ghlór na Mara, atá faoi Iontaobhas Fhoras Pátrúnachta na Scoileanna lánGhaeilge le 124 daltaí ar rolla. Tá na daltaí seo roinnte idir an chéad, dara agus tríú bhliain. Tá foirgneamh nua-tógtha ag an scoil le spás go forbairt suas go 800 dalta.
Is féidir foirm iarratais a fháil trí ríomhphost a sheoladh chuig an gCathaoirleach ag po17cgnm@gmail.com
Ní mór foirmeacha iarratais comhlánaithe (ar pháipéar amháin) a sheoladh ar ais chuig:
Tim Ó Tuachaigh, Dollards Cottage, Drogheda Rd, Bremore, Baile Brigín, Co. Átha Cliath, K32X766 roimh 5.00 in ar an 3 Márta 2017.
Beidh na hagallaimh don phost seo ann Déardaoin 9 Márta 2017.
Is fostóir comhionannas deiseanna é Coláiste Ghlór na Mara.
Minister Bruton Publishes Plan to Tackle Educational Disadvantage
February 15, 2017
108 Actions to Help Everyone Achieve Their Potential
Approximately 110 Schools to Receive Additional Supports; some 20,000 Pupils to Benefit
The Minister for Education & Skills, Mr. Richard Bruton, TD, today launched the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) Plan 2017, his plan to tackle educational disadvantage.
Every child has to have the opportunity to fulfil their potential, regardless of their circumstances. Education has a unique capacity to break down the cycles of disadvantage.
Our overall goal is to make Ireland’s education and training system the best in Europe within a decade. Today’s Plan is about being the best at using the potential of the education system to break down those cycles of disadvantage through improved educational outcomes.
The Plan builds on the experiences of existing DEIS schools and draws on international best practice. It sets out new targets to:
Further improve literacy and numeracy
Improve school completion rates
Improve progression to further and higher education
The Plan identifies more than 100 actions in support of tackling educational distanvatgae to ensure that everyone can achieve their potential. Those actions include the following:
A new model of identifying schools in a fair and objective way to deliver additional resources to benefit approximately 20,000 children and approximately 110 schools
Operation of a Book Rental Scheme will become a mandatory requirement for schools participating in the School Support Programme by September 2017
A series of pilot schemes will aim is to encourage innovation and creativity in schools and the development of these initiatives will be supported by a School Excellence Fund; encouraging innovation through school clustering
Target supports for School leaders and teachers to equip them to support children to achieve their full potential (e.g professional leadership training, preparation courses for newly appointed principals, mentoring and coaching courses)
Give all post-primary schools participating in the School Support Programme access to a dedicated career guidance counsellor
Improve the transition for children from pre-schools to primary schools in communities, building on the strength of programmes like ABC
Schools will set specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time specific targets, including targets for literacy and numeracy, CPD and leadership and to evaluate these annually
Establish a DEIS Development Unit within the Department of Education and Skills to support the implementation of new interventions and help broker the necessary resources from the various support agencies
Appointment of an additional 10 NEPS psychologists to improve supports to DEIS schools
Education and Training Boards will establish formal outreach arrangements with DEIS schools to encourage access through its existing education pathways
The Schools Business Partnership will be expanded to cater for new schools included in the School Support Programme
Minister Bruton said:
“Every child has to have the opportunity to fulfil their potential, regardless of their circumstances. Education has a unique capacity to break down the cycles of disadvantage. The basic aim of this Government is to sustain our economic progress and use it to build a fair and compassionate society. No area is more important to this vision than education.
“We are lucky in Ireland to have such a dedicated and committed teaching profession. Our teachers and school leaders will continue to play a pivotal role in helping children to achieve their potential. We have to support our teachers and school leaders, through up-skilling, mentoring and coaching, so they can plan, deploy and to support.
“Our plan develops best practice so that schools can be identified for extra support in a fair and objective manner. We will pilot new approaches to encourage innovation and better outcomes for children. This can be mainstreamed over time.
“Extra supports, like additional NEPS provision, priority professional development provision and book rental schemes, will be put in place.
“Our plan provides supports for learners of all ages. I want to see more students continuing into further and higher education. We must develop better pathways for them.
“I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to the development of this Plan and look forward to working with and supporting schools to achieve its goals.”
“I was very pleased to visit Our Lady Immaculate Junior National School in Darndale today to launch our new plan to tackle educational disadvantage.”
The new DEIS school support programme will be implemented from September 2017, with ongoing work with education partners and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of its objectives.
Minister Bruton today visited Our Lady Immaculate Junior National School in Darndale, a primary school in north Dublin, to lay out his plans to improve opportunities for children from disadvantaged areas.
A list of schools which will receive additional benefits is available here – DEIS Schools List.
Our goals Under this Plan
In order to achieve the targets we have set, and building on the five key goals set out in the Action Plan for Education 2016-2019, the Key Goals we have set ourselves in this DEIS Plan are:
1. To implement more robust and responsive assesment framework for identification of schools and effective resource allocation
2. To improve the learning experience and outcomes of pupils in DEIS schools
3. To improve the capacity of school leaders and teachers to engage, plan and deploy resources to their best advantage
4. To support and foster best practice in schools through inter-agency collaboration
5. To support the work of schools by providing the research, information, evaluation and feedback to achieve the goals of the plan
The DEIS Plan, which replaces the current Action Plan launched in 2005, sets out our vision for future intervention in the critical area of social inclusion in education policy.
A key element of the Plan is the development and application of a more responsive and flexible method of identifying schools for inclusion in the SSP which relies on centrally held DES and CSO data. The new model will allow for an accurate identification of schools in terms of the socio-economic background of their pupil cohort, and the achievement of a better match between resources and educational need. This new process will also eliminate the need for an application process thereby reducing the administrative burden on schools.
Another important element is the introduction of a series of pilot projects aimed at introducing measures shown to work well in improving results for disadvantaged students. The aim is to encourage innovation and creativity in schools and the development of these initiatives will be supported by a School Excellence Fund. Targeted measures to be included are School Leadership, School networking/clustering, teaching methodologies, integration of all supports within communities, greater use of HSCL services.
Inter-agency collaboration and working will be key to the success of this Plan and it contains a number of key actions to ensure that this happens.
This Plan is the outcome of a comprehensive review of the current DEIS Programme, best international practice, and input from Government Departments and Agencies, education partners and other stakeholders, including students.
Schools to be Included:
Approximately 110 schools will receive additional supports. Details of the schools which will receive extra supports is being finalised and will be announced shortly.
Our Vision
For Education to more fully become a proven pathway to better opportunities for those in communities at risk of disadvantage and social exclusion.
Our Ambition
To become the best in Europe at harnessing education to break down barriers and stem the cycle of inter-generational disadvantage by equipping learners to participate, succeed and contribute effectively to society in a changing world.
Our Targets
To realise our vision we have devised an ambitious set of targets.
Full press release on www.education.ie.
(Gaeilge) Eolas tábhachtach de dhíth maidir le próiseas iontrála bunscoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge & Gaeltachta
February 15, 2017
Clear evidence of inclusive makeup of Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools in Department’s DEIS decisions
February 15, 2017
This week’s announcement by the Department of Education & Skills on the granting and extension of disadvantaged status to DEIS schools gives the lie to the assertion that Gaelscoileanna and Gaeltacht schools are in any way elitist in their intake of pupils, according to Gaeloideachas, the national organisation of Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools. 74 Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools are now recognised as DEIS schools, meaning that one in five are providing for a majority of students at risk of educational disadvantage. The schools have been granted DEIS status by the Department of Education & Skills as part of the publication of the DEIS Plan 2017.
Yvonne Ní Mhurchú, President of Gaeloideachas, has welcomed this announcement and said “It is now time that the evidence provided in the Department’s decisions are reflected in the public debate on the admission policies of all our schools. The fact that over a fifth of our schools are officially recognised as disadvantaged means that our schools, teachers, parents and children are entitled to fairness in what is becoming an often deeply unfair public commentary. Any pretence that our schools are in any way elitist in their student intake policies should now be dropped and recognition given that in fact we have a range of schools across all socio-economic groups in every city, large town and rural part of the country.
While a number of Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools were receiving additional support since 2006, there were other schools that fell outside the criteria despite the complex needs of their communities, and as a result were not granted formal DEIS recognition. Those schools have now been recognised by the Department as DEIS Band 1 schools, and other schools previously recognised as DEIS Band 2 in 2006 have now also been granted DEIS Band 1 status. The additional supports now available to these schools will be of huge benefit to their students”.
Some Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools, however, are very unhappy not to have been granted DEIS recognition, despite applying on basis of significant challenges and needs within their communities. Those schools are anxious to have the criteria for selection clarified, and to know why they have not been granted recognition. Pól Ó Ruiséal, Principal of Scoil Rann na Feirste, was surprised and disappointed that the school was not granted DEIS recognition this year. “The method of selection used by the Department of Education for this Scheme is unfair” he said, “they’re ignoring the needs of schools teaching through the medium of Irish”. Ó Ruiséal is concerned that parents will not be willing to enrol their children in schools that do not have DEIS status because of the additional costs they will incur as parents. If parents were to choose schools on the basis of DEIS status, irrespective of the school’s language ethos, there could be serious implications for the long-term viability of some Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools.
22% of Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools now have DEIS status. Bláthnaid ní Ghréacháin, the CEO of Gaeloideachas, said “Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools are open, inclusive and supportive communities, providing for diversity. Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools welcome children and young people from every kind of linguistic, cultural and socioeconomic background. It is so important that the advantages of Irish-medium education are made available to those threatened by educational disadvantage, and that we give them every opportunity to achieve their potential and to be safe and happy in school”.
Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools granted DEIS recognition in 2017:
1. Gaelscoil Bharra
2. Gaelscoil Dara
3. Gaelscoil an Longfoirt
4. Scoil an tSeachtar Laoch (previously held DEIS Band 2 status)
5. Gaelscoil Bhaile Munna (previously held DEIS Band 2 status)
6. SN Éadan Fhionnlaoich
7. SN Cholmcille, Baile na Finne
8. SN an Ghlasáin
9. SN Mhuire, Fanaid
10. SN Inbhear
11. Gaelcholáiste Mhuire
12. Coláiste de hÍde, Tamhlacht
(Gaeilge) Oiliúint do bhoird bainistíochta bunscoile agus iarbhunscoile maidir le Frithbhulaíocht
February 14, 2017
(Gaeilge) TG4 AR THÓIR AR LÁITHREOIRÍ ÓGA AIMSIRE DO SHEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE
February 13, 2017
(Gaeilge) Clann Lír
February 13, 2017
Scrúduithe TEG 2017: Dátaí & Ionaid
February 13, 2017
Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge; Foghlaim Gaeilge Céim ar Chéim
Scrúduithe TEG 2017: DÁTAÍ & IONAID
Beidh Scrúduithe TEG 2017 ar siúl sna hionaid seo:
An Spidéal
Béal Feirste
Caisleán an Bharraigh
Cill Airne
Cill Chainnigh
Corcaigh
Leitir Ceanainn
Luimneach
Má Nuad
Páras
Prág
Nua-Eabhrac
Ottawa
Sydney
Cuirfear na scrúdaithe ar siúl san órd;
B2 ar an gcéad lá d’Aibreán 2017 *
B1 ar an tríú lá déag de Bhealtaine 2017
A2 ar an seachtú lá is fichead de Bhealtaine 2017
A1 ar an deichiú lá de Mheitheamh 2017
B2 ar an dara lá déag de Lúnasa 2017*
C1 ar an t-ochtú is an naoiú lá dég de Lúnasa 2017
*Glactar le Meánleibhéal 2 (B2) mar cheann de na critéir iontrála do chúrsaí sa bhunmhúinteoireacht sna coláistí Oideachais agus i gColáiste Hibernia agus do chúrsaí san aistriúchán agus san ateangaireacht i gcoláistí tríú leibhéal éagsúla.
Is é an dáta deiridh d’iarratais ar scrúduithe TEG ná 1 Márta 2017. Cláraigh anseo. Beidh spriocdháta níos déanaí gceist do scrúduithe mhí Lúnasa agus is i Má Nuad amháin a bheidh na scrúduithe seo ar siúl.
Dírigh ar do chumas labhartha!
PÁIRTCHREIDIÚINT AR FÁIL;
Tá páirtchreidiúint ar fáil do dhaoine ar mhaith leo an scrúdú cainte amháin a dhéanamh. Mar sin, beidh dhá rogha ag iarrthóirí:
· Scrúdú iomlán TEG a dhéanamh agus creidiúint iomlán a fháil;
NÓ
· An scrúdú cainte amháin a dhéanamh agus páirtchreidiúint a fháil.
Beidh foireann TEG sásta scrúduithe cainte a reáchtáil ag amanna eile i rith na bliana do ghrúpaí in ionaid ar fud na tíre. Cuir glaoch ar (01) 708 6417.
Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge
Learn Irish Step by Step
TEG Examinations 2017: DATES & CENTRES
TEG Examinations 2017 will take place in the following centres:
An Spidéal
Belfast
Castlebar
Killarney
Kilkenny
Cork
Letterkenny
Limerick
Maynooth
Paris
Prague
New York
Ottawa
Sydney
B2 1st April 2017*
B1 13th May 2017
A2 27th May 2017
A1 10th June 2017
B2 12th August 2017*
C1 18th & 19th August 2017
*TEG Level B2 satisfies the Irish language entry requirement for courses in primary school teaching in the Colleges of Education and Hibernia College and is also an accepted qualification for translation and interpreting courses in various colleges.
The closing date for applications is 1 March 2017. A later closing date will apply to the August exams which will take place in Maynooth only. Further information here.
Work on your speaking skills!
PARTIAL CERTIFICATION AVAILABLE;
Partial certification is available for learners of Irish who prefer to focus on their oral language skills. Candidates will have two options:
· Take the full TEG exam and get full certification;
OR
· Take the oral exam only and get partial certification.
TEG staff will be happy to arrange oral exams for groups at other times of the year in centres throughout the country. Call (01) 708 6417 for more information.
