Learn Journal
2007 – 2018
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Learn 2020
- The Transformative Power of Child Voice for Learning and Teaching in Our Classrooms: Signposts for Practice from Research Findings in a Primary School in Ireland – Sorcha Turner, Emer Ring and Lisha O’Sullivan
- Best Practice Guidelines for Multilingual Children: A Cross-Disciplinary Comparison – Duana Quigley, Fíodhna Gardiner-Hyland, Deirdre Murphy and Ciara O’Toole
- Converting Plurilingual Skills into Educational Capital – Déirdre Kirwan
- Engaging Multilingual Families in the US: Research and Practice for Educators – Maria R. Coady and Raisa Ankeny
- Guided Repeated Reading: Supporting the Development of Reading Fluency for Pupils with Reading Difficulties in the Primary School Classroom – Louise Barr and Aoife Brennan
- Primary Teachers’ Conceptualisations of Exceptionally Able Pupils – Eithne Uí Chonaill
Learn 2017
- Mindfulness in Schools – A Tentative Welcome – Helen Byrne
- Whole-school positive mental-health implementation: from aspiration to reality – Patsy McCaughey
- The Instructional Leadership Programme and its contribution to supporting learning for all – Finn Ó Murchú, Joan Russell and Barrie Bennett
- ‘Look at us together’ Including pupils with autism in music classes – Ailbhe O’Halloran and Fiona Jennings
- Only Four Parents Mentioned ‘Play’: Implications from a National School Readiness Study in Ireland for Children’s Learning in the Early Years of Primary School – Emer Ring and Lisha O’Sullivan
- The Primary Language Curriculum in the context of inclusive education – Conall Ó Breacháin and Fionnuala Drudy
- Training in the Administration and Scoring of TEST2r – Pauline M. Cogan
Learn 2018
- Psychological Capital and the Positive School Environment – Jacinta M. Kitt
- Addressing the Wellbeing of Learners with Complex Special Educational Needs: Using Junior Cycle Level Two Learning
Programmes for explicit teaching of wellbeing for wellbeing – Nicola Mannion and Johanna Fitzgerald - An Exploration of the Transition from Post-primary to Third Level Education Settings for Students with Special
Educational Needs – Martha Daly and Kevin Cahill - “It’s very hard to know how much is the EAL and how much is the learning difficulty”: Challenges in organising support
for EAL learners in Irish primary schools – Fíodhna Gardiner-Hyland and Patrick Burke - Facilitators of Change: Irish Teachers’ Perspectives and Experiences of Including Students with Special Educational
Needs in the Mainstream Infant Classroom – Louise Curtin and Margaret Egan - Using Response Boards to Promote Active Student Responding in a Special School Class – David Lavin and Patricia Daly
- Exploring the Social Construction of Dyslexia – Trevor O’Brien
- Intergenerational Learning: How to Develop Civic Literacy in young children – Marie Hanmore-Cawley
Learn 2015
- Supporting Provision for Exceptionally Able and Dual Exceptional Students: The Equality of Challenge Initiative – Tom Daly
- Peer Tutoring: An Effective Strategy Offering Real Potential – Catherine Flanagan
- Consulting with Groups of Teachers – Mary Nugent, Valerie Jones, Theresa Thornton and Theresa Tierney
- An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Cognitive Self-Instruction on Challenging Behaviour as part of Whole School Positive
Behaviour Support – Patricia Leahy and Margaret Egan - An Evaluation of the FRIENDS for Life Programme in an Irish Primary School – Edel Higgins and Marie Hayes
- A Word Study Approach to Co-teaching for Spelling – Ellen Reynor
- There is more to numeracy than meets the eye – Jerry McCarthy
- Making Use of High Quality Assessment Data to Inform Learning Support Provision for Struggling Readers in a Secondary School – Diarmuid O’Rourke
- TEST 2r: Early Screening for Reading and Writing Difficulties – Pauline M. Cogan
- Digital Literacy: Access, Participation and Communication for the ‘Non-Literate’ in the New Digital Age – Tom Daly
Learn 2016
- Working Memory, Academic Attainment and Special Education Needs: Part One – Tomás Mac An Bhreithiún
- The Role of Levelled Readers in Supporting the Development of Literacy – Bairbre Tiernan
- Training teachers to be school-based consultants: How to get started – Paula Long and Joan Tiernan
- Peer Assessment: A Powerful and Liberating Learning Strategy – Joe Flynn, Grainne Barry, Anthony Doogan and Anne Marie Luby
- Planning School Transitions for Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: A Model of Practice – Alison Doyle
- Emotions and Social Problem Solving: Using the Secret Agent Society Computer Game with a Pupil with an Autism Spectrum
Disorder in an Irish Mainstream School Setting – Anna Marie Cullen - Record of an Intervention Introduced to Support a Student with Persistent Behavioural Difficulties – John Cullinane
- Implementing Peer and Self-assessment in Physical Education with Students of Low-achievement Grades: A Teacher’s Perspective – Rosemary Keegan
- Using a project-based learning approach to develop the critical literacy of young students experiencing difficulties with EAL
– Gina Potts - An Effective Spelling Intervention Programme – Eileen O’Sullivan
Learn 2013
- Interrogating and Giving Meaning to Numeracy – Jerry McCarthy
- Improving reading skills for older struggling readers – Yvonne Mullan
- Handheld Devices – Improving the Experience of First Year in Post Primary – Diarmuid Mooney
- Differentiated spelling instruction using co-teaching – Thérèse Mariè Vahey
- The Importance of Fine Motor Skills – Brendan Culligan
- An investigation into the effectiveness of a six week paired reading intervention, using cross age peer tutors,
on a student’s reading development – Joe O Riordan - STEM to STEAM – Vital Life Skills are learned through Arts Education – Michael O’Reilly
- Differentiation in the Classroom: Making it Meaningful and Manageable for All – Thérèse McPhillips
Learn 2014
- Is the Role of ILSA Relevant in 2014? – Sr. Thomasina Cosgrave
- From Remedial To Learning Support: 50 Years A-Growing – Denis Burns and Dr Dan O’Sullivan
- Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A useful tool in a time of change? – Finn Ó Murchú
- In-class Support: Investigating the Impact of Station Teaching on Reading Attainment – Martina Horkan and Bairbre Tiernan
- Exploring the Macro Thesis of School-Wide Numeracy Development – Jerry McCarthy
- Teaching Comprehension to Pupils with Learning Difficulties – Aoife Brennan
- Words Matter: Learning Support for the Vocabulary of Struggling Readers – Ellen Reynor
- The Role of Drama in Supporting the Literacy Needs of Children with Dyslexia – Patti Roche
- Social Media: Challenges for those working with children with SEN – Maureen Griffin
- Making Sense of Psychological Reports: Teacher and Parent Perspectives – Mary Nugent, Aideen Carey, Ciara De Loughry, Mary Sherwin and Antoinette Rush
Learn 2011
- The Ongoing Tensions Between Theory and Practice in Mathematics Education – Florence Gavin
- Revisiting and Extending the Grand Narratives of Teaching – Jerry McCarthy
- Four Years Later – Yvonne Mullan
- Supporting the Maths Difficulties of Children with Dyspraxia/DCD in Irish Primary Schools – Catherine Sweeney
- A Social Developmental Approach to Teaching Young Children with ASD – Mary McKenna
- Look at the past, organise for the present and plan for the future… – John Phayer
- Evidence based interventions in primary mathematics – Joseph Travers
- Dual Exceptionality: Identifying Exceptional Ability with Dyslexia – Jean Johnston
- Comparing five interventions for struggling readers in Ireland: Findings from four years of action research – Mary Nugent
- Working memory training improves arithmetic skills and verbal working memory capacity in children with ADHD – Magnus Ivarsson & Stefan Strohmayer
Learn 2012
- Learning to Draw / Drawing to Learn – Michael O’Reilly
- The inclusion of pupils with autistic spectrum disorder within the primary school: a comparative study of inclusive practice across four schools with two different models of provision – Michelle Dunleavy
- A Simple Measurement Task – Florence Gavin
- The Contribution of TEST 2r to Assessment and Learning in the Early Years Classroom – Pauline Cogan
- The Impact of Context and Authenticity in Numerical and Mathematical Word Problems – Jerry McCarthy
- An analysis of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 as a teaching and learning tool for mainstream and SEN pupils – John Phayer
- Some Thoughts on the Professional Development of Learning- Support/Rescource Teachers – Anne English
- Developing Numeracy and Problem-Solving Skills – A Balanced Approach – Catherine Flanagan
- Safeguarding Inclusive Education in a Time of Austerity – Joseph Travers
- How Studies in Neuroscience Can Inform Teaching and Learning – Fiona O’Connor
- Differentiating for Language and Literacy Within Subject Areas in Post-Primary Schools – Ann Marie Farrell
- Movement and Learning – Colette Nic Sitric
Learn 2009
- Using ICT for supplementary reading instruction – Marty Hollan
- What is left out of the debate on Education? – Rosemary Sage
- Individualising Spelling – Brendan Culligan
- Why Maths Education isn’t Working. A View from England – Steve Chinn
- Peer Tutoring: An Inclusive Approach to Supporting Reading: Case study in five disadvantaged schools – Fiona King & Alison Gilliland
- Investigating Dualisms in Teaching and Learning – Jerry McCarthy Using Live Modelling to Teach Behavioural Chains
– Patricia M. Daly & Christy Demetry - Team-teaching: Supporting student and teacher learning in post-primary classrooms – Finn Ó Murchú
- Asperger’s Syndrome :Transitions from primary to secondary school – Tomás Mac An Bhreithiún
Learn 2010
- Partnership – What teachers think: An Investigation into Teachers’ Attitudes towards Parental Involvement – Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig
- Delivering Learning Support Programmes in a Community-based Setting – Thomasina Cosgrave
- The Developing Role of the Special Needs Assistant Supporting Pupils with Special Educational Needs
in Irish Mainstream Primary Schools – Rohana Mohd Salleh - Good Teaching and EAL Students in Post-primary Schools – Zachary Lyons
- The role of Education Centres in delivering ICT in SEN as part of a Continuing Professional Development programme for primary and secondary school teachers – John Phayer
- Developing Effective Instructional Strategies for Teaching in Inclusive Classrooms – Donna McGhie-Richmond, Kathryn Underwood & Anne Jordan
- Inclusion: lessons from the children – Phyllis Jones
- The efficacy of phonological awareness training in a Speech and Language Class setting and in a mainstream class – Jean Smyth
- Empowering Pupils and Teachers Through the Establishment of Teacher Learning Groups – Seán O’Leary, Laura Silke, Evelyn Jackson & Caroline Ní Shé
- Students’ Experiences of Co-Teaching in a Post-Primary School in Ireland – Susan McNamara & Therese Day
Learn 2007
- Making sense of “inclusion”: What is it and where does it come from? – Bill Sadler
- A Continuum of Provision – Therese Day
- Reinterpreting Inclusion: Putting Participation at the Heart of the Agenda – Richard Rose
- Co-teaching: Why and How? – Fiona King
- The Trails and Triumphs of the Assistive Technology package TextHelp® on Dyslexic students at Third Level – John Phayer.
- Emotional Literacy in Primary School – An Holistic Approach – Margaret Egan
- Old Friends are Best: (In Praise of Learning Laboratories) – Jerry Mc Carthy
- Challenging Behaviour in Schools: Can Mainstream meet the Challenge? – John Visser
- Reflections on Teacher Education in Special Educational Needs in Ireland – Elizabeth O’Gorman
- Inclusion as Pedagogy: Teaching all Learners – Máirín Barry
Learn 2008
- Painting a Picture of Inclusion – Sean O’Leary & Ann Whitty
- English Language Support at Post-Primary Level: a contribution from the Trinity Immigration Initiative
– David Little - Learning about Learning: Are We There Yet? – Jerry McCarthy
- Building the Perceived Social Support of Adolescents Via The Classroom – Cormac Forkan
- Using Research As A Tool To Understand Behaviour – Claire W. Lyons
- Motivation and Literacy – why academic motivation declines in adolescent years and strategies for improving it – Catherine Flanagan
- Including Children with Dyspraxia/DCD in Irish Primary Schools – Catherine Sweeney
- A Rough Guide to Reading Partners – A cross-age, peer tutoring approach – Mary Nugent
- Cross-Age Peer Reading in a Secondary School – An Evaluation – Mary Nugent and Pat Devenney
- The Range of Difficulties which Third Level Dyslexic students experience at College – John Phayer