Friday evening

18:30 – Registration & Refreshments

19:30 – HTAI President’s welcome & official opening of conference – Derval Ryan

Round Table Discussion: Senior Cycle History – Reflections from a variety of perspectives – Aoife Flood – PME Trinity College, Seán Delap – Principal Coláiste Íosagáin, Gráinne Henry – Recently Retired Teacher of History – facilitated by Marie-Claire Tuite, Vice-President of HTAI

20:30 – Wine reception and social gathering

Saturday

8:30 – Registration (registration will close at 8:50)

9:00 – Approaches to Leaving Cert Writing Skills – Aisling Quinn, Leaving Cert Examiner, Coláiste Bríde, Enniscorthy  

10:00 – Keynote speech – Nationwide – A Window into the Decade of Centenaries – Donal Byrne, RTE Nationwide Presenter 

11:00 – 11:30 – Tea & Coffee

Visit to stands to meet with publishing companies, tour providers etc.

11:30 – Methodologies for teaching the Famine at Junior Cycle, Dan Campion, Team Leader, Oide

12:00 – Approaches to teaching Sovereignty and Partition – Brianán McGrane, Leaving Cert Examiner, St. Andrew’s College

12:40 – AGM

1:00 – Lunch

1:45 – 2.30 – Contextualising the Dictatorship & Democracy Case Studies – Seán Delap, Coláiste Íosagáin

2:30- 3.30 – Teaching & Learning Approaches in Junior Cycle – Jacqueline Kiernan, Junior Cycle Chief Advising Examiner, Mercy College, Sligo

8pm – Conference dinner – €35.00 per person

• To book your place at Conference please click on the following link

www.htai.ie/conference

• To book a hotel room at the conference rate please contact the Radisson Hotel directly on (061) 456200

• Any queries, please email: historyteachers@gmail.com