One Day Conference: The Work of Supervisors of School Placement

Friday, December 6, 2013 - 00:00

One Day Conference
The Work of Supervisors of School Placement: Educative, Formative, Normative
On Friday, 6th December 2013, a group of 55 school placement supervisors met in the Long Room Hub of Trinity College Dublin for a one-day conference.  This conference, the first of its kind in Ireland, was organised by Dr. Rose Dolan from the Education Department, Maynooth University and Dr Ann Devitt from the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin.  The Conference was sponsored by the Standing Conference of Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS).

The day began with an input from Dr Stephen James Minton (TCD) and Ms Maeve Daly (Maynooth University) on The Seven Tasks of Supervision (Carroll, 1996) applied to School Placement Supervision.  This was followed by a workshop where supervisors had the opportunity to put the skills outlined into practice.

After lunch, Dr Anja Swennen (VU University, The Netherlands) gave the keynote address “Crossing borders -University and school based teacher educators”. The afternoon concluded with inputs from Dr Rose Dolan, Mr Michael Kearns, Ms Mairead O’ Riordain and Mr. Seamus Cummins, all from Maynooth University, and Dr Billy Mc Clune and Ms Blanch Gallagher from Queen’s University Belfast, all participants in SCoTENS project, “Writing as a Professional Development Activity”.