Welcome to the Home Economics webpage.

New Service Provision for Teachers

The Second Level Support Service (SLSS) extend its gratitude to all of you that supported the work of the service throughout the years since its establishment in 2001. A new cross - sectoral service, the Professional Development Service for Teachers  (PDST) will be established in September 2010. The PDST will subsume much of the work of the SLSS. Details regarding this new service will be communicated with schools in due course.

The SLSS is happy to inform you that the resources, materials and functionalities of this website will continue to be available to you in the future. It is our intention to provide continuing professional development opportunities for teachers of Home Economics. We are currently working with enthusiastic colleagues who are developing exemplar teaching and learning resource materials. We have organised resource meetings in February and March where resources will be shared and the exemplar materials disseminated and invite teachers to attend – we will soon be putting dates and venues onto the website.

With your support we aim to identify, disseminate and share good teaching and learning strategies which will enhance the classroom experience for you and your students.
To ensure that you are notified about all relevant courses email your school name, school roll number, your email and mobile details to homeeconomics@slss.ie (if in doubt register again using the link on the homepage).

If you are an experienced teacher who is passionate about your subject and wish to work with like minded colleagues I invite you to apply to become a local facilitator.
Local Facilitators are teachers who are willing to volunteer to contribute to CPD in their subject or programme areas or other areas where they have expertise and a willingness to contribute. If you wish to become a Local Facilitator in Home Economics, please email timregan@slss.ie

I urge all teachers to regularly use the website forum and share ideas and thoughts with each other. Exchanging ideas and sharing good practice reaffirms our work as professionals.

This website will be continually updated and contain details of upcoming support courses and evaluated classroom resources. If you use active teaching and learning strategies or have generated a classroom resource which you wish to share with colleagues, please contact catherineboyce@slss.ie .

News Sept 2010: 

DOLCETA Consumer Education Online website (funded by the European Commission) has been updated. New modules are also in development including Food Safety. The Irish section of the site can be found at  www.dolceta.eu/ireland

Home Economics Matters Issue 3 Feb 2010 to download click here 

 Articles for inclusion in the next issue of our Home Economics Matters magazine are now being compiled. I invite you to contribute an article on a teaching and learning methodology which you have found useful, tips for practical work, a few lines to highlight a useful resource, etc The article can range from a few lines to a few pages. Please forward your article by email to catherineboyce@slss.ie before May 28, 2010.
      
Strategies for Mixed Ability       

        
 

Angela Thompson
Programme Administrator
Phone: 053– 9239121
Fax: 053- 9239132

Email: homeeconomics@slss.ie