Collaborative Projects
Introduction
INTO Learning has a long and successful history of collaborative partnerships with a variety of organisations. These collaborative partnerships have involved professional development design and delivery, teacher resource design and development, training DVD production, project administration, training hosting and facilitation as well as advice and guidance on education and professional development related projects. Such collaborative partnerships bring together a rich and diverse pool of knowledge and skills which has resulted in the realisation of highly effective and beneficial outcomes across the education sector.
Collaborative partners include the NCTE, DES, Coláiste Mhuire, the Heritage Council of Ireland, Amnesty Ireland, DICE, Irish Aid and CICE.
Current Collaborative Projects
INTO Learning and Oxfam Ireland Celebrate Online Learning Collaboration
INTO Learning and Oxfam Ireland teamed up earlier this year to give teachers an insight into our environment and the effects of climate change on it. Oxfam Ireland provided INTO Learning with a variety of resources including video footage to support its design of an online summer professional development course for primary school teachers. The course featured modules exploring climate change and climate justice, developing a sustainable environment and developing proactive attitudes towards understanding and protecting our environment.
100 teachers participated in the course which ran during the summer months of July and August. INTO Learning donated €20 per participant to Oxfam Ireland to support its Let’s Face it Climate Change Campaign.
Development and Intercultural Education DVD Production
This collaborative project with DICE produced an information and training dvd for primary teachers on development and intercultural education. The DVD features classroom footage and interviews with teachers and principals on integrating development and intercultural education into the primary curriculum, pedagogy to support the teaching of development and intercultural education and the challenges and benefits of actively promoting development and intercultural education. The DVD was issued to all primary schools in November 2010.
For further information on this project contact Alison Gilliland on alisong@into.ie or John Fingleton on jfingleton@cice.ie
Heritage in Schools Scheme
INTO Learning is the administrator of the Heritage in Schools scheme funded by the Heritage Council of Ireland. INTO Learning also collaborates with the Heritage Council of Ireland on the development of a new website for the scheme, the recruitment and training of new heritage specialists and the production of digital recordings explaining the scheme and highlighting outdoor education at primary level.
For further details see the Heritage in Schools tab to the left.
NCTE
INTO Learning maintains a strong collaborative partnership with the NCTE on ICT focussed professional development. This collaborative partnership includes the design and delivery of both face –to-face and online professional development summer courses.
Other examples of collaborative partnerships- School Works! with Irish Aid
- Lift Off Cross Border Human Rights Education Initiative with Amnesty Ireland, Amnesty Northern Ireland and the Ulster Teachers Union
- Play: A training DVD for Infant teachers with CICE
