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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Transition year"”.
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Innovation and resistance in Irish schooling: the case of Transition Year.
The mainstreaming of the optional Transition Year (TY) programme in 1994 was a significant innovation in Irish second-level schooling. TY offers schools and teachers extensive freedom to devise imaginative curricula with a particular emphasis on personal and social development and education for …
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The Transition Year: A Case Study in the Implementation of Curriculum Change
… to the extent that 90% of sixteen to eighteen year olds will be completing senior cycle education by the year 2000.2 Curriculum development is occurring in order to facilitate the holistic development of all students progressing to the end of the senior cycle. The réintroduction of the …
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The Professional Development of Teachers: The Perspective of the Practicing Transition Year Teacher
… study is an inquiry into the contribution of the Transition Year Programme to the professional development o f teachers and by implication of such development to the development of the school as a whole. The central focus of the study however, is on the potential for the professional development …
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The Student Voice in the Transition Year Programme A school based case study
I f Transition Year were a film, I would describe it as an action-comedy. There were plenty o f laughs and even more o f the other. Throughout the year, spirits were constantly high and there was always an air o f enthusiasm and excitement bubbling to the surface.... It was a brilliant experience …
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The Challenge of Change: An Investigative Study of the Transition Year in Six Schools
… in the nineties, namely the mainstreaming of the Transition Year Programme in 1994. Six different second level schools in the researchers immediate locality were chosen in order to investigate and evaluate the Transition Year Programme in the light of the aims set out by the Department of …
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Work experience in transition year: a mixed methods study of subject and career choices
Transition Year (TY) has been a feature of the Irish Education landscape for 39 years. Work experience (WE) has become a key component of TY. WE is defined as a module of between five and fifteen days duration where students engage in a work placement in the broader community. It places a major …
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Involving Students in their own learning: The Experience of a first year Curriculum innovation
… socially. Innovations include programmes such as Transition Year, Leaving Certificate Vocational, Civic Social and Political Education and perhaps most importantly the Junior Certificate
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Sensitivity analysis of nuclear fuel cycle transitions
… of nuclear fuel cycle options the U.S could transition to, which would overcome these challenges and make nuclear energy technology more desirable. The transitions have been modeled by various nuclear fuel cycle simulators. However, most fuel cycle simulators require the user to define a …
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Computer Science To Go (CS2Go): Developing a course to introduce and teach Computer Science and Computational Thinking to secondary school students
… To Go (CS2Go) is a course designed to teach Transition Year Students about Computer Science and Computational Thinking. This project has been conducted over two years and this thesis charts the development of the course from the initial research stage, through the lesson creation sections to …
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Teaching subjects as languages: academic English development in the multilingual post-primary classroom
… in the context of Biology and Religion transition year classes (15 year old pupils) to answer these research questions: 1. How can academic language development be integrated into mainstream curriculum lessons to the benefit of all pupils in a multilingual post-primary context? 2. What …
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The Relationship Between the Freshman Academy and Student Academic Success at Morristown-Hamblen High School East.
… (2004-2008) and students enrolled at MHHSE 2 years prior to the implementation of the academy (2002-2004). Paired-samples <em>t</em>-tests were used to make comparisons between the same students on 8th grade (pretreatment) and 9<sup>th</sup> grade (posttreatment) measures. Independentsamples …
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Teachers’ Perceptions Of Student Achievement And Engagement In The Transition To High School
… of teachers and students impacts students’ transition from middle school to high school. Existing research indicates that by implementing specific transition programs for freshmen, the dropout rate is greatly reduced, academic achievement increases, and the ability to transition to life …
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Individual, Family, School and Regional Characteristics and their influence on the expected points and University Applications of Irish School Leavers.
… attributes such as gender, participation in Transition Year and private tuition (‘grinds’), engagement in part-time work and also peer effects. The thesis also examines school to university distance and province effects using geo-coding to ascertain the impact of distance in respect of …
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Adolescents’ perceptions of mental health services: an interpretive descriptive study
… individual interviews with 30 students in the Transition Year (4th year) of secondary school in Ireland. The students had no prior experience of accessing mental health services. To complement interviews, participants drew images of mental health care environments and mental health staff …
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Team-teaching for inclusive learning: Purposes, practices and perceptions of a team-teaching initiative in Irish post-primary schools
… and 53 students, whose age ranged from 12-16 years old, with 4 teachers forming two dyads per school. In Oak there was a class of first years (n=11) with one dyad and a class of transition year students (n=24) with the other dyad. In Ash one class group (n=18) had two dyads. The subjects in …
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Primary students’ engagement with the visual arts and their transition into Year 7
… Responding in Visual Arts, evidenced in their Year 7 students who had recently graduated from primary school. Consequently, this research investigated the extent of Year 7 students’ prior Visual Arts experiences upon entry into secondary school. The research engaged a qualitative research …