Sinéad McCAULEY LAMBE

Move Write – A Whole-body Sensorimotor Approach to Handwriting is FINALLY ready to go! Below is a very brief synopsis of how Move Write was developed. The Move Write programme began (quite some time ago!), as The Sensorimotor Handwriting Programme, as part of my PhD research study. My initial interest in the area stemmed from…

On a recent school visit, a student told me that they loved teaching ‘non-academic’ subjects – namely SPHE in this case. They also told me that they enjoyed my lectures very much, because they weren’t so ‘academic’. They like the caring approach. They liked that I lit a candle each week, and that I told…

Over the past weeks, my students and I explored the topic of behaviours that we find challenging in our classrooms. I love talking, thinking and reading about behaviour, and I loved trying out different approaches to promoting positive behaviour when I was in the classroom. While sifting through materials and resources that might be useful…

This week I built up the courage to introduce Molly to my B.Ed. Specialism in Inclusive and Special Education students. It took me three weeks. We were delving into the broad topic of Literacy, and specifically Dyslexia. Molly was on hand to describe her account of being asked to read aloud in front of the…

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkkEjgdlx5JrQ4NO38oxdNw This week’s reflection takes place over on the Molly’s Musings YouTube Channel. Watch as Molly describes her bad day at school, stemming from her feeling that her teacher is being unfair. Grappling with the concept of fairness (or unfairness), consumes much of children’s time and energy throughout the school day. Many teachers will be…

Schools are systems. They depend on order, structure, procedures and organisation. And so as teachers, order, structure, procedures and organisation become central to all that we do. Classroom organisation is a topic that is widely researched, blogged about, taught, assessed and reflected upon by most teachers. And today, with the help of social media and…

I recall vividly the moment in my teaching career when I was catapulted from the known safety of mainstream classroom, into the vast unknowns of the special education setting. A moment at the time that felt chaotic, messy and daunting, but which I now recognise as a pivotal moment in my professional and personal development…

Hello again. So the big bad PhD has been put to bed at long last. It didn’t take too long in the end…insert Pinocchio face here. Thankfully, this means more time for new and exciting projects, and I am delighted to be currently working with the brilliant people at ABC School Supplies to publish the…

As third level teacher educators, we strive to develop students that will become skilled and competent facilitators of learning. We hope that our students will advocate for children’s agency, that they will want for children in their classes to become independent, self-directed learners, to develop their curiosity and their critical thinking skills. We promote enquiry-based…

Since beginning my journey into early childhood education, I have learned that early childhood education appears to have its own ‘language’. When I think about language, I think first of Brian Friel’s Translations, and how it portrays the “the role and impact of language on human experience” (Larson, 2019). Set in 1833 Ireland, it tells…