29-30 September 2011
Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel, Cavan
Giving the keynote address at the SCoTENS annual conference was Dr Harold Hislop, Chief Inspector, Department of Education and Skills, Dublin.
The 9th annual SCoTENS conference took place in the Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel in Cavan on Thursday 29-Friday 30 September, with the title ‘Promoting Literacy and Numeracy through Teacher Education’. The speakers included Professor Terezinha Nunes, Professor of Educational Studies at University of Oxford; Sir Bob Salisbury, Chair of the Northern Ireland Literacy and Numeracy Task Force; and Mr Harold Hislop, Chief Inspector at the Irish Department of Education and Skills.
The conference also saw the launch of three North-South SCoTENS reports on Teacher Education for Inclusion, Primary School Teachers’ experience of Healthy Eating within the Curriculum, and Disablist Bullying: An investigation of student teachers’ knowledge and confidence.
Annual Conference of the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS) 2011 "Promoting Literacy and Numeracy through Teacher Education"
See the full conference programme.
Further details from Patricia McAllister at p.mcallister@qub.ac.uk or 028 [048 from Republic of Ireland] 3751 8282.
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