The Irish Visual Environments course will provide the primary school teacher with an appreciation of modern and contemporary Irish art.  This course will introduce teachers to a wider societal perspective of Irish art and provide a toolbox which will enable them to analyse art.  It will also provide activites for teachers to bring Irish Art into their classroom across all age groups.

• 5 fully interactive lessons complete with audio, links and exercises to complete
• A moderated discussion forum to answer course-related questions, share you experiences with your teaching colleagues and communicate with your facilitator
• A Reflective Learning Log where you reflect on your understanding of the course and how you will use it in your day to day teaching
• Completion of a course gives 3 EPV Days.  Your individual entitlement for EPV days should be checked with the DES.
• A course is expected to take 20 hours to complete
• Each course has a facilitator who will be in contact with you regularly and whom you can contact by email with any queries before or during the course

   Michael O'Reilly

Michael O’Reilly is the co-ordinator of the visual arts programme for the Higher Diploma in Primary Education course with Hibernia College. In that role he designs the on-line and on-site materials, organises tutors, organises the visual arts elements of the Gaeltacht and sets and corrects examination papers.

Michael was the chairperson for the Arts committee with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment ( NCCA )that originally wrote the Visual Arts, Music and Drama curricula. He worked for many years with the Primary Curriculum Support Programme ( PCSP ) as an English and Visual Arts trainer and as a Visual Arts Cuiditheoir. He delivers a wide variety of courses on the topic of visual arts for a number of education centres on a regular basis.

Michael has worked in a wide variety of schools both as a classroom teacher, as a principal and as a learning support teacher. He has recently resigned the principalship of a special school in Bray to work as a shared learning support teacher based in Lismacaffrey, Co. Westmeath with a view to concentrating on his own artwork and on designing and writing educational materials.

Michael is a widely published author in the education field. His published work includes a wide variety of work on anti-racist and intercultural education, an English language programme and a wide rage of materials on visual arts education. You can see examples of his work by logging onto http://www.iamanartist.ie/, http://www.into.ie/ ,  and http://www.crosscare.ie/.

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