A proud day for us all in Croke Park as colleagues present the findings from a wide-ranging review of research on literacy, numeracy and digital literacy. The report informs the forthcoming new strategy from Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, Youth and Department of Education. A big team effort from DCU Institute of Education ! Dublin City University

In #PIRLS2021, Ireland was among a set of very high-performing countries internationally. Average reading achievement in Ireland appeared to at least remain stable between PIRLS 2016 and #PIRLS2021. #PIRLS #20YrsPIRLS (2/4)

And we're off! Nicola O' Reilly of DCU School of Language, Literacy and ECE sharing on engaging students through hands-on materials for Early STEM learning DCU Institute of Education Teaching & Learning Day Hamsa Venkat

Delighted to welcome new School of Policy and Practice: DCU IOE staff member and Assessment Matters Prometric Chair in Assessment | Prof Ernesto Panadero Ernesto Panadero to DCU Institute of Education | Daire Keogh Anne Looney John Doyle Martin Brown | Further details on Prof Panderos research can be found at bit.ly/3NCUEZf

Our second keynote of #ALM30 is Hamsa Venkat. We are honoured to have Hamsa here to share her reflections on primary pre-service teachers’ STEM project learning. Another great day ahead!

Delighted to be presenting alongside respected scholars as part of a seminar series on variation hosted by the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Access will be first come first served to each seminar. Max 300 attendees. See abstracts below.

I've been following Samira Mian Islamic Geometry for a while & over the last month or so I've finally found the time to give some of her brilliant tutorials a go. Slighly wonky first attempts but so enjoyable: so much opportunity for making sense of symmetry and relationships.

International Naughton STEM Education Scholars DCU Institute of Education with hosts Hamsa Venkat Margaret Leahy Cliona Murphy

Guest-edited open access Special Issue of SAARMSTE journal AJRMSTE out now, on Early Grade Mathematics Education in Southern Africa tandfonline.com/toc/rmse20/27/3.

Don’t forget you can submit to present at our conference. Find out more 👇🏽and please share widely. Lesson Study UK Pete Dudley Sarah Seleznyov Sarah Leakey Stéphane Clivaz Lesson Study Matters Dr. Mairead Holden Hamsa Venkat Geoff Wake 👇 Matt Lewis Matt Ruth Trundley 🇺🇦 🌻🌻

Fantastic response to call for submissions to #smec2024. Thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts. A reminder to all research students that we're still accepting submissions for our pre-conference - up to May 10th. Find out more here smec.castel.ie/pre-conference/

Interested in MEd STEM specialism? DCU_SEIGS offering blended format with face-to-face sessions some Saturdays Fee-level support scholarships via competitive process Applications will be adjudicated by a panel Apply dcu.ie/courses/postgr… SCoTENS Association for Teacher Education in Europe maths4all_IRL

New findings just published: #sciencecapital is good for you! Significant relationship found with positive life outcomes at age 21 including active citizenship, good health and job satisfaction. Read more here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/aspires/2024/0…

Hamsa Venkat, Lorraine Harbison, Paul Grimes, Sean Delaney & Stephen Quirke presenting Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Baseline insights in the Irish ITE context @ #smec2024. Very topical research time of significant curriculum change in Ireland NCCA DCU Institute of Education MIE

#smec2024 research presentation-Outcomes of a ‘fractions as measures’ intervention in a school-university collaboration by Hamsa Venkat with Siún Nic Mhuiri & Patrick Neary. Students using multiple representations, including 'smalls' to understand fractions and their operations

Congratulations to our colleague Michelle Fitzpatrick who passed her Viva Voce today "From STEm to steM: Developing the Landscape of Teacher Learning for STEM Education" Examiners: Professor Hamsa Venkat (DCU) & Dr Máire Ní Ríordáin (UCC) Mary Immaculate College (MIC) Hamsa Venkat #Proud #STEM

Great opening keynote from Hamsa Venkat at the ICME ECR Day. Some very interesting points around the academic journey & how different schools prepare students for higher education that can lead to different educational outcomes! #ICME

Dr Siun Nic Mhuiri from DCU Institute of Education CASTeL presenting her Invited Lecture ICME-15. Discussing her experiences of analysing shared datasets of mathematics teaching

Calling all EC educators. Join us, Córa & Sandra, for a night of FREE early mathematics fun and games prof development CASTeL @DCU_IOE DCU School of Language, Literacy and ECE #freePD Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…