Browsing FACULTY OF EDUCATION by Author "Leavy, Aisling"
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Review of the Droichead teacher induction pilot programme (Working Paper)
Leavy, Aisling; Banks, Joanne; Conway, Paul F.; Darmody, Merike; Smyth, Emer; Watson, Dorothy (ESRI [Economic & Social Research Institute], 2015)The Droichead pilot programme is designed to provide whole-school support for teacher induction. The programme is innovative in being led at school level, by a Professional Support Team (PST) consisting of the principal, ... -
Scholarly electronic journals: economic and technical issues
Leavy, Aisling; Ganesh, Tirupalavanam G.; Glass, Gene V.; Andrews, Sandra; Middleton, James A.; Jennings, Tara A. (Arizona State University, College of Education, 2000)In this paper we discuss scholarly communication and the emergence of electronic journals. Scholarly electronic journals are expanding their influence. Currently, about 70 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in education are ... -
Staticical preparation of teachers: preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) conceptions of distributions of data – thinking about measure of center and variability
Leavy, Aisling; Thanheiser, Eva; Noll, Jennifer (PME-NA [Psychology of Mathematics Education - North America], 2011)Prior research investigating PSTs’ statistical thinking is sparse, yet teacher educators need to know how best to prepare future teachers for their work and given the increasing importance of STEM education we need teachers ... -
Teaching algebra in the primary classroom: Functions, the function machine
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine (NCE-MSTL [National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning], University of Limerick, 2012) -
Teaching statistics at the primary level: identifying obstacles and challenges in teacher preparation from looking at teaching
Leavy, Aisling (IASE [International Association for Statistical Education], 2010)Preparing preservice primary teachers to teach statistics is a complex endeavor. The challenge is to enrich content knowledge, advance pedagogical understandings, and develop the types of thinking and dispositions necessary ... -
Understanding the knowledge demands of teaching statistics: insights gained from examining practice
Leavy, Aisling (CERME [Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education], 2015)This research examines the knowledge demands placed on 73 pre-service teachers who are observed as they plan, teach and re-teach data lessons in classrooms. Problems of practice are identified and categorized using the ... -
Using a simulation to explore the law of large numbers
Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead (NCE-MSTL [National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning], University of Limerick, 2014) -
Using architecture as a context to enhance students' understanding of symmetry
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2017)Working within the context of a contest to find the most beautiful tourist attraction in the world, Year 5 students investigate the most symmetric building from a short-list of three iconic buildings. This involves ... -
Using architecture as a context to enhance students’ understanding of symmetry
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2011)Working within the context of a contest to find the most beautiful tourist attraction in the world, Year 5 students investigate the most symmetric building from a short-list of three iconic buildings. This involves ... -
Using lesson study to help pre-service teachers bridge the theory-practice gap
Leavy, Aisling; Carroll, Claire (St. Patrick's College, Dublin, 2013) -
Varying your approaches to teaching variables
Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2011)Our previous article Getting the balance right: The equals sign presented activities which can be used to introduce children to translating and solving word problems using equations where the unknown is represented with a ... -
What’s a real 2D shape? Designing appropriate geometric instruction
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2015)Mairead Hourigan and Aisling Leavy describe a range of teaching and learning activities focusing on the identification and classification of 2-dimensional shapes. The activities described are useful in highlighting students’ ...