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English teacher. My other account on film: @trolleyvideo A short film I wrote:

West Cork, Ireland

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Conor Murphy

5 years

Ages ago I was putting together a list of recommended films for my TY class. I never got around to typing the list up so I'm putting it together on a thread. All fiction, no documentaries (I haven't seen enough of them). And I'm aware of the lack of diversity. I'm working on that

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Conor Murphy

4 years

'Hi, Covid App hotline. How can I help?' 'Myself and 30 coworkers just got an alert from the app.' '30! You must all go home, isolate, phone your GP, get tested.' 'Ok. Some of them are in class, I'll ...' 'Class? Are you teachers?' 'Yes.' 'Oh, you'll be fine.' Beep beep beep

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Leaving Cert students are doing their orals today and tomorrow. At the weekend. On a Saturday. On a Sunday. They're doing a Leaving Cert exam on a Sunday. I don't care how this came about but, to me, this is just mean. An awful way to treat students.

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6 years

O'Mahony pulls hims up to sit next to him, calls him class and then Carberry's smile...

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Conor Murphy

21 days

Don't look over there at teacher shortages look over here at mobile phone bans.

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Irish Times Education

@IrishTimesEdu_

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Mobile phones to be banned across across second level schools, according to Government plans

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Every teacher I have spoken is happy to go back in July. Every single one. Remember this when (as is already happening) talk show hosts try to suggest otherwise. I'm not naive enough to think all teachers agree, just none I've spoken to, and we all knew this might happen.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

One of the nicest things the students do is say 'thank you' at the end of class. They do this even if they haven't said a word in class, some, that have broken/no mic, put it into chats. Simple but means a lot.

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Online teaching and learning

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4 years

I have entered the 'retirement home' stage of online teaching.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Some simple truths: Teachers can be tired. That doesn't mean that other professionals can't be tired. It's not a competition. You are allowed to highlight problems in schools. That doesn't mean that you want schools to close, it just means you want things to be transparent.

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4 years

Teachers looked for plans B+C in Sep, guidelines on how to work online/blend/live stream classes etc. We could have had training. On Jan 11th we could have been in able to welcome some students and work with others online. We were told told to stop whingeing and get back to work.

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4 years

I demand that the SEC release the names of the poets that were to appear on the English Leaving Cert paper! This is all that people ever really want to know! Release the poets!

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2 years

Child no. 3 was desperate for the toilet, only @Moodycafevin available. Would they let a child use their toilets? No. They stopped him outside the toilet door. Even when I explained how desperate the situation was? No. Never encountered this behaviour before. Awful.

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Conor Murphy

3 years

Upcoming webinar on window opening. As an expert in window opening I'm delighted to announce a one off webinar on the niceties of this subject. Might be of particular value to NQTs and PMEs. @NormaFoleyTD1 has agreed to introduce the webinar. #windowexpert

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Conor Murphy

4 years

If schools open with a blended learning approach we need: 1. Broadband in all homes. Free. 2. Laptops for all students (individual students, not families). 3. Social workers to visit homes of vulnerable students. And keep visiting those homes.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Every evening when I get home I just sit for an hour, unable to move or talk. I have never been so exhausted.

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Conor Murphy

1 year

Teachers' salaries are all over the radio today. To be clear: Almost no teacher gets full hours, most will be lucky to get half hours. This will last for at least the first five years of their career. @NormaFoleyTD1 gave the figure of €40,000 on @cooper_m Half that number.

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Conor Murphy

3 years

The Dept of Ed meets the unions on Tuesday. The cynic in me thinks that they'll close the schools then and blame the unions, rather than call it now and take the heat themselves. But they wouldn't be that conniving, would they?

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1 year

As it's in the news: 2nd level teachers are often offered less than half hours. This means they have to find other work to pay for the privilege of being a teacher. You have to reinterview after your 1st year teaching for the same job you just did. 1/2

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Conor Murphy

3 years

Perception is interesting on here. Some people thought those memes were body shaming Matt Le Blanc. This seems to indicate that the first thing these people saw (the ones crying out about body shaming) was an overweight man. The people making the memes saw a friendly face.

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Conor Murphy

3 years

Going to bring my 6th years to a cafe so we can take off our masks and they can do proper group work in a safe environment.

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Conor Murphy

2 years

You have to admire @NormaFoleyTD1 completely ignoring students, parents, and teachers calls for her to retract her decision to have CAO exams in 5th year. It's ironic considering explaining your point, arguing your point, debating your point, are a central elements of English.

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2 years

Never thought I'd see the day when people didn't want to be a teacher. It used to be a "pillar of society" job, a job that meant you were financially secure. Neither is true now. It is now a job that's simply not worth the effort.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Masks in school are shit. (I know, I know, they're necessary but they're also shit.)

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Someone on @cooper_m just said, in relation to people going on holidays, that it was understandable (in a way) because 'the schools are closed.' No. The schools are not closed, the buildings are. . Didn't think it would make me this angry.

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Conor Murphy

3 years

New text lists for JC and LC are out!!!! Here are the films to be studied at second level. Might interest those outside the school community too

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Look, if the schools close again at least we can turn to the @Education_Ire 's plan B, the one they were working on since March 12th. . . Anyway, don't panic, all that CPD and tech they've given us for online teaching is about to pay off!

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1 year

For my new found friends. Yes, I trust Librarians and if they say the book is OK, then the book is OK. Yes, I have read all the books on the JC and LC Text lists and have found nothing wrong with any of them. I have read, out loud in class, many texts you would find offensive.

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4 years

'And if you look at this paragraph...hold on, someone else wants to get into class...Hi John, welcome. Now, this paragraph starts with...wait...someone else trying to get in...Hi Mary, good to see you here...so, the opening sentence...wait...yep, another student in the lobby...'

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Yesterday: Teachers MUST guess the grades of their students! Today: Teachers are awful people and can't be trusted!

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Conor Murphy

2 years

A huge congratulations to @INOTEnews and @AnGreasan today. Your tireless work in highlighting the inequities and damage this would have caused has resulted in a "late win" for Subject Associations and, particularly, students.

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Plan for students to sit Paper 1 in fifth year reversed

The Minister for Education has reversed a plan for Leaving Certificate candidates to sit Paper 1 of their English and Irish exams at the end of fifth year.

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Conor Murphy

2 years

Long essay writing was downgraded with the new JC, yet they want us to get that "fixed" in one year so that 5th years can do their Leaving Cert exam in English paper 1.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

@rte Could you start showing all the films on the Leaving Cert course? Maybe during the day, wouldn't affect your evening/night schedule that way. Maybe adaptations of the plays as well?

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2 years

"Sir, this time next year I'll be doing my Pre-Leaving 5th yr exams?" "Yep" "What will be in the exam?" "Don't know." "How long will it be?" "Don't know" "Do you have any details?" "No?" "Really? Why were they moved from 6th year? I'm getting worried!" "To reduce stress." "..."

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2 years

Can't wait to see the funds available for building school theatres, lighting, cameras, sound equipment, costumes, make-up, dolly's etc etc for the new Film, Drama and Theatre course.

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2 years

Norma Foley is visiting child no.2's school. Child no. 2 is in 2nd year. Child no. 2 does not like CBAs. Child no.2 does not want to do any Leaving Cert exam in 5th year. All the above stresses Child no. 2. Child no.2 wants to have a chat with the Minister.

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Conor Murphy

2 years

What is Norma Foley's legacy at the moment? JC exam results debacle. Bus debacle. Schools assessing student needs debacle. LC exam into 5th yr debacle. Teacher recruitment debacle. Remember those articles that said she was doing well? Next leader of FF?

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2 years

Norma: Move the exam. DES: But you're an English teacher, surely you know how damaging that will be? Norma: I said move the exam! DES: Yes, Minister. Norma: Cancel career breaks. DES: But you're also on a career break. Norma: I said cancel career breaks! DES: Yes, Minister.

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Conor Murphy

3 years

People are blaming Norma Foley for the spin of these figures. It's not just her, it's the whole government. For whatever reason the government has decided to lie about the safety of schools during the pandemic. I want the schools open but I also want the dangers acknowledged.

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emma o kelly

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More comprehensive data from the HSE this eve on the school antigen testing programme so far: 90,351 kits dispatched (each with 5 tests) 8,170 results reported Of those, 4,867 negative, 3,303 positive, 1,873 subsequent positives in follow up PCR tests.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Dear media, Please decide who you want to compare teachers to. Nurses? Then mentioned their supplied PPE and the fact they are trained medical professionals. Shop workers? Then mention the time spent with customers, the number they meet at a time, and the plastic barrier. Thanks.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

New trampolining rules to be announced tomorrow. In order to control trampoline related deaths all trampoline owners must download the Trampoliners of Ireland Tracer app (T. I. T. app). Only 6 trampolines can be used within a 20 mile radius.

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Conor Murphy

3 years

If ever an interview should have ended with an, "ah, fuck off", from the interviewer it was this one.

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RTÉ Six One interview with Russia’s Ambassador to Ireland Yuriy Filatov | Live updates:

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Conor Murphy

1 year

If you hear any "expert" coming on radio shows implying that this is all fine, that they'll all get great jobs, that they'll easily find a room to live, that there's no real problem with teaching outside your subject area, then you're listening to an absolute spoofer.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

I'll be honest, it would be easier, and more beneficial, to do live online classes with LC students. What is happening now is as a result of lack of planning by @Education_Ire . If they had looked into this from September on we wouldn't be discussing this nonsense.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Junior Cycle. I'm looking forward to teaching the English spec without the exam hanging over me. It's going to be a great three months with my 3rd years!

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Conor Murphy

1 year

2/2 You have to be hired for your 3rd Yr to get a CID (a version if "permanent"). Many teachers aren't retained into the 2nd yr, and many don't get the 3rd yr (so no CID). The system is a mess and wide open for nefarious manipulation. That's before the cost of living kicks in.

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Conor Murphy

11 months

When I started teaching it was a finely balanced profession between being a "job" and a "vocation". Now it's seen as a job by most of those outside of the classroom. There's less and less emphasis on the student and more and more emphasis on meetings and jargon and paper work.

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4 years

Schools should supply honey and lemon drinks at breaktimes for teachers. . And cake.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

One thing we've all learned from this experience is that students aren't as proficient with all things digital as we were lead to believe.

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Conor Murphy

6 months

Right now secondary schools around the country are under pressure to get various LC projects completed. Imagine, in a few years, when they all have 7 projects, worth 40% each, to do...

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Conor Murphy

3 years

This reveals what people think of the student/teacher dynamic, as adversarial. People do realise we spend our days with students? Everything we have looked for during this pandemic has been for the benefit of our students (and by extension their families and society in general).

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2 years

"So, Minister, why did you decide to move a couple of Leaving Cert exams into 5th year?" "Well, it's simple really: 2nd years have CBAs to worry about, 3rd years have CBAs and exams, 6th years have LC exams, so we felt that 5th years were missing out on a bit of stress."

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Conor Murphy

2 years

I'll say this again: English, at LC, is taught as one whole unit where EVERYTHING feeds into each other. There are no modules. No stand alone elements. 1/2

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Imagine if, in January, we got a circular that stated: 'In view of recent developments around covid19 please implement plan B from our September circular.'

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Conor Murphy

2 years

This is the reality of the new Junior Cycle. This is the way English has been corrected from the start. They don't want to give the high grade. They want students to get the same grade, a Merit. They are telling teenagers that they're average and not to strive for the top.

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Liam McCormack

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@LCHistoryTutor When a colleague of mine was correcting history this Summer, they were told that there shouldn’t be any more than 3 or 4 distinctions in every 100

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4 years

I feel like asking a question and then just waiting the full class for an answer. I'll just sit there, camera on, reading my book.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

To all the new teachers out there homeschooling their children, and the teachers teaching online, today is the last day before the holidays. So, according to tradition, that means films all day long!!! #Homeschooling #Homeschooling2020

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1 year

Today many students will ask for extra paper to help them plan their essays, to keep quotes handy, to have key words next to the essays as they write. Yet the SEC have decided that they can't. Why? Not convenient for the SEC. The SEC think they're more important than students

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Can anyone remember any of the toys from tonight's show? No. That's the big change, it's no longer about the toys at all, it's all about the children. And that's why we love it.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Can we have all our online CPD days ( @JCforTeachers ) moved to the coming weeks (if they weren't planned for then)? Let's get them out of the way now so that we don't have to miss any more Face to Face time when we get back into the school buildings.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

This is from @josephamadigan . She has already used the phrase 'normal' to differentiate children into two categories. Now she's comparing SNAs and teachers to some of the most vile individuals, and institutions, in our country's history. I have no other comment.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Why aren't the media talking more about the inequalities around access to education during the pandemic? All I hear is that students are now 'online'. What about no devices? One device in a family? No space? Poor broadband? Home life issues?

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Conor Murphy

4 years

If the schools do close and the pubs are also closed where will all the teachers go to celebrate?

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Conor Murphy

4 years

I never want to correct an essay online again. Thinking of training some pigeons to carry them from student to teacher and back.

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Conor Murphy

6 months

@Joe_Rolston Absolutely. I really can't get over the meanness of it all. And highlights that they really don't care about "student wellbeing." This reveals that as the lie it is.

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Conor Murphy

2 years

I feel for those creative students that like to hone their essay writing skills in 5th and 6th year. Now they only have one year to work on those skills/talents. Horrendously simple minded decision.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

@ClaireByrneLive I'm a teacher: We were heroes. We were lazy. We were the honest solution to the LC problem. We were appalling individuals that were going to ruin LC students lives. We were honest. We were appalling individuals that were too generous and ruined the LC We were too scared to work

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Conor Murphy

2 years

People talk about the "dumbing down" of education at Junior Cycle. Testing students' writing skills at the end of 5th year is an irrefutable example of dumbing down. Ripping a whole year out from developing those skills is, by definition, dumbing down. Well done @NormaFoleyTD1

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Conor Murphy

2 years

Our school has an exchange programme with a Boston school. They come here in TY, we go there in 5th. A number of students have told me they can't go because of the CAO exams in 5th year. Well done @NormaFoleyTD1 . That's the way to stop young people from expanding their horizons!

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Conor Murphy

1 year

If you are on the side of the banner raisers you're on the wrong side. This is a library. Libraries are little symbols of freedom that every town has. They sit there waiting for the disenfranchised, the excluded, the poor, the dreamers. Be on the side of the dreamers.

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The City Library was forced to close today due to public safety concerns. As part of a protest on Grand Parade a banner was mounted across the entrance without permission. Please find below a statement from Cork City Libraries:

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5 years

The films on the Leaving Cert for 2022.

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Conor Murphy

2 years

2015 1st year - 2nd year - 3rd year - Junior Cert exams. 4th year - 5th year - 6th year - Leaving Cert exams 2025 1st year - 2nd year - CBAs 3rd year -Junior Cycle exams 4th year - 5th year - Leaving Cert exams 6th year - Leaving Cert exams

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Conor Murphy

2 years

What every teacher knew is now official; schools were warehouses from which Covid was distributed. Schools are safe. Junior Cycle exam results. Leaving Cert exams in 5th year. I'll let you add to the list.

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Rob O'Hanrahan

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"Uncontrolled SARS-CoV-2 transmission at school... likely seeding the transmission into other settings " An interesting, if unsurprising, read on the spread of Covid-19 among young people and then into households, notably from schools.

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There's a meanness to the JC. The questions seem designed to confuse, some seem designed to catch students out, some are just ill informed. The whole exam is a race to get questions attempted, rather than thought through. And the marking scheme is designed to disillusion.

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Humphrey Jones 🔬🧬🥼🧪

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It doesn’t seem right to me when it’s easier to get a H1 in a Leaving Cert HL subject than a Distinction in a common level Junior Cycle subject. Or is it just me?

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4 years

Once again we are at the predicted grade phase of a lockdown. Last year we didn't interact with our students but this year we'll be in class with them. Obviously teachers will not be swayed during any interaction. On a separate note, I still really like chocolate.

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Conor Murphy

3 years

I think it's time we had a mic on Peter O'Mahony for a whole match.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Listening to the Minister these are the facts: 1. They decided that schools should open for 3 days for the LC students. That's it. Didn't ask experts as to whether that was safe. Didn't ask students, parents or teachers whether they wanted it. No plan as to how to implement it.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

We'll need clarity on how to teach each of these cohorts in the same class: 1. Students that want predicted grades only. 2. Students that want to do exam only.. 3. Studwnts that want to do both. All depends on the kind of LC exams they will set.

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Conor Murphy

2 years

I hope @NormaFoleyTD1 appears before the media to answer Qs on how her new English and Irish CAO courses will work, why she felt it needed changing, the research she has put into the decision, how it will benefit students educationally, with evidence on how it will reduce stress.

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4 years

This student is going to get H1s (As) for as long as they're in my class.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

I'm sick of tweeting about education. But one last one: If the exams are safe to take place in June/July they should. It doesn't matter how much they have covered. @Education_Ire and the SEC should be putting together possible exams taking this lockdown into account.

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Conor Murphy

2 years

Like I've said before; no one thinks this is a good idea. Students Parents Teachers SEC NCCA All against. Who is for? Norma Foley Harold Hislop (recently retired)

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Teachers' Union Ire.

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Joint TUI/ISSU statement: Teachers and students express serious concern at plan for students to sit Leaving Certificate examination papers at end of fifth year @issu4u

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Dear "experts," Unless you have a solution to how the CAO is the cause of stress, don't suggest continuous assessment. Unless you have a solution to how continuous assessment benefits the middle class, don't suggest continuous assessment. Unless you have a solution to AI...

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Conor Murphy

1 year

Nice article on my wife's (Aislinn) new venture: tattooing areolas (she still tottoos eyebrows). Aislinn has spent the last few years perfecting the art. (A talented artist with a business mind, what a combination.)

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Shakespeare clips are often overblown, showy but this is perfect. We need a bit of perfectly realised art to cheer us up. Chat show, bright colours, silly jokes, and, in the middle, perfection. Like that song you hear the old lad singing in the pub out of nowhere.

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SCC English

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Sonnet 29, recited by Judi Dench.

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2 years

So this is the last year of TY English as a place of creative freedom. From now on it'll be Year One of the Senior Cycle, as they will have to do a Leaving Cert exam (with CAO points attached) in 5th year. I wonder did @NormaFoleyTD1 think of this when she made the decision?

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Conor Murphy

2 years

What the f*ck is an Upshot in film? A Downshot? Seriously? And this is a state exam? Go help us all.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

If the DES could make their announcement early tomorrow it'd really help with the work I'm about to prepare. @Education_Ire

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Conor Murphy

4 years

Attention second level students!! If this pandemic has taught us anything it's that you should give your teachers gifts BEFORE you get to 6th year. Butter them up NOW, that way you can't be accused of bribery!

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3 years

If schools had closed after Christmas they only would have been closed for a week or two. All students would then have been taught online. Although this wouldn't have been perfect it would have meant that less students would have missed out.

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The racism on show here isn't subtle, it isn't hiding behind "concern" for those seeking refuge. This is pure undiluted racism. That councillor, and those white men behind him, bring nothing but shame on our country.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

A thread on teaching. The classroom and the virtual room are two completely different places. It's very difficult to teach the nuances of your subject, the specific needs of every single student in your class, the patient teasing out of the topic, reading the room to pause.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

4. Spaces where students can work in peace at home. 5. Good tech for teachers (camera, mic, editing software). 6. Chocolate and coffee delivered to teachers on the hour, every hour, until 6 o'clock in the evening.

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Conor Murphy

2 years

Also, we just came out of covid, the students had numerous lockdowns. Answer on three poems? This is a dirty, dirty, trick to play on 15 year olds.

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Conor Murphy

4 years

I've been teaching English for over 20 years and two things continue to bug me: 1. Film is seen as entertainment, a 'break' from real study, and not as an art form. 2. Books are 'good for you' (like broccoli) and not seen as being good entertainment.

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Conor Murphy

11 months

Had a "significant" birthday this week and the whole school knew about it. Cake and chocolate with a couple of classes, constant happy birthday from students, a little party with a few colleagues at break time. And then a past pupil brings me a "thank you" gift. Great week!

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Conor Murphy

4 years

'Stop the madness! Cancel the Leaving Cert NOW!!' 'Stop the madness! Open Primary Schools NOW!'

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Conor Murphy

2 years

Very pleased to get my blog from a couple of weeks ago published in today's @IrishTimes thanks to @carlobrien We need to nurture student voice, not stifle it. Moving Paper One is a retrograde step.

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We’re about to deny Leaving Cert students the chance to develop their own voice

I cry when I read some of my students’ personal essays. Exam changes will mean fewer tears for me

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Conor Murphy

4 years

I rewrote one of your paragraphs for you: 'The DES and the HSE reviewed the data and concluded that, as those involved were teachers, Education's special immunity from Covid came into play and everyone could continue working.'

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emma o kelly

4 years

The Department of Education says this evening that a full public health risk assessment carried out at the school concluded that the teachers in question were not close contacts, despite what the COVID tracker app has told them initially.

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Conor Murphy

3 years

Just want to reiterate that, despite what most of twitter is saying, it's ok to do "well" in your Leaving Cert.

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