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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank all the guests for coming before the committee. I might take Ms Doyle up on that proposal about more questions on the leaving certificate subject. I welcome the fact that we are introducing climate action and sustainable development as a senior cycle course. As Ms Doyle said, however, the primary purpose of any course is to educate and to inform students about an area. I suppose...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Yes, go on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: It sounds like a very challenging and interesting curriculum.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: These are teachers who are already in schools teaching but, because of their expertise or qualifications, have an interest and an ability to teach this into the future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. It seems to me this is a course which has obviously been designed. That is a difficult thing to do. Was it similar to the way the politics and society subject was designed? Were there any learnings from that or was this something that had to be started from scratch?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms Doyle. Does Ms Aoife Rush wish to take up the initiation to speak?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning. They are, as always, most welcome. I want to follow up on a point made by Ms Rush on the background paper. She said that the council had visited four schools. What is the profile of those schools? I am not looking for their location or anything that would make them identifiable but for a profile of the schools involved in that development...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: Can Ms Doyle give us an idea of the top three requests from schools? What have they identified as needs that must be met?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: The four specific schools that Ms Rush mentioned-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: That would be useful information to have. Reference was made to continuing professional development. I acknowledge that the subject is available now but I am interested in how connectivity is developed between the most junior learners in the education system right up into third level. Connections need to be made by the Department and by the schools. How do we make it relevant for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: TUS Athlone is one of my local third level institutions. It had a transition year programme this year, part of which was a module on sustainability in engineering, which was really welcome to see. This is my final question. In terms of primary school, will Ms O'Connor talk about the hours per week that will be spent under the redesign model?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I thank Ms O'Connor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: The reason I ask is that primary schools only have a set number of hours per week. It is in that context that I ask the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: This is an area where teachers have been particularly to the fore over the last ten or 15 years. The nature table is almost a thing of the past. Pupils now go out into nature and see it for themselves. I am very fortunate to live in an area where we have good biodiversity. There are many bogs around the area. These are wonderful places. It is good to see the younger children in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I want to go back to the STEM implementation plan. When is the next review of that due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I refer just to the implementation plan. When is the next review due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: When will the next one be published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: That is the next progress report, but what about the annual review of the plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: But Ms O'Connor said there was an annual -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: When is the next one due?