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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Morning, does anyone know of companies that specialise in the refurb of science labs? We need to get someone on site fairly quickly to do a survey and report for us as part of summer works application. TIA #edchatie

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Summer reading and relevance to teaching the electrochemistry portion of the new Chemistry specification. No rest for the wicked. #edchatie #lcreform

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

That school’s out sound. 🎵 Now just to organise all of the paperwork for the new Biology and Chemistry specifications #edchatie #teachershaveiteasy

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Doesn’t help all the Science teachers who have huge H&S concerns with AAC, no storage for all the individual projects and know that 20h class contact time will be multiples of that for both teacher and student. Even more disappointed in the Department now. #edchatie

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Would anybody have a pdf for the attached image? We want it for planning new LC specifications. ResearchGate are slow to approve me (going into months waiting) as my academic research is all in my maiden name. I haven’t been able to source it anywhere else. Thanks in advance. #edchatie #AEN #SEND

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It may take longer then your suggested dates as they will have to talk about talking about it first. #edchatie

‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I hope everyone has read Section 5 and Section 6 that the unions are voting on with the lens of “will this help me deliver the new Senior Cycle specification?”. Talk so some Tranche 1 teachers about the “quality” of their experiences so far. I am voting “no”. #edchatie

‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Busy week: #Oide collaboratives in #ITeachChem and #ITeachBio, back stage for school musical, Form 6 Biologists doing a 2nd mock and Form 1 Parent teacher evening. I really don’t need to see my kids! #edchatie

‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Finally got around to watching @trythisteaching.bsky.social webinar on Adaptive Teaching; Low Effort, High Impact T&L Ideas to support students. Going to try do better with my word banks and use “so that”, refine my visuals and ditch focus on neatness. #edusky #iteachchem #iteachbio

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This will be useful for the new Chemistry specification #edchatie #iteachchem

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This is definitely an improvement. The merit band was very cruel to students at the top end. #edchatie

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The teacher unions are suggesting that students upload their work directly to the SEC & tick a box saying “this is my own work”. Any discrepancy between their AAC and their written paper grade can be clearly seen by the SEC who can decide whether to award AAC marks. This I support. #edchatie

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Ideas for the accessibility portion of the new LC subject plans to be found here. #edchatie

‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Currently writing Biology and Chemistry student notes for new LC specifications with this in mind. I have a question re:fonts and colours. It was recommended for anything on screen to be a dark blue background with yellow Trebuchet font, particularly for dyslexic students. Right or wrong?

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Super day at the @irishsciteach.bsky.social annual conference. Great to see some of the textbooks in the flesh, listen to lots of great discussions and ideas and have chats with other science teachers. Well done to the Kildare branch on a super programme. #edchatie #ISTA25

‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This might be of interest to teachers prepping for the change to LC Biology in September #edchatie

‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Super night with the Carlow/KK branch of @irishsciteach.bsky.social with a workshop on the MiniOne DNA electrophoresis kit. See them at the annual conference on April 5th. #IteachBio #lcreform #edchatie

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Can you use it if renewing? Mine is days away.

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Never said he was a good guy!

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

(2/2) respect from elected officials when dealing with people. This is not the world I want for myself or my family. We’re two months in to a 4 year sentence and #Canada gives me hope. We need the good guys and gals to come together and make a new world order. Time’s a wasting’

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

(1/2) A Sunday morning scroll while listening to Morgan Wallen and this line from his new song reasonates “Knowin' I'm a little crazy, but the world's insane” - from respected journals towing the non-sensical American line to non-medical doctors running vaccine research to just the pure lack of

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Thank you for doing the Google Notebook LM podcast of the paper. Your article went to the top of my reading list this way. We are changing our Senior Cycle specifications in Ireland to enquiry-led & this article highlighted some of my issues while giving me ideas to apply in the classroom #edchatie

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Oide/SEC webinar dates for discussion about the sample papers. School management to book from 31/03 until 10/04. #edchatie

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hope it won’t be like the Sciences where feedback was given but ignored!🤞

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Am I the only one to see the irony of an Irishman in a foreign country, on the day the Irish worldwide celebrate a foreigner’s achievements in Ireland, talking negatively about foreigners in a country built by foreigners?

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CAMHS Carlow/KK has no psychiatrist in post since end of January with no one waiting in the wings to take over. It is scary to think of the children with significant needs that are left in the lurch because of that? Never mind the sanity of their parents. #edchatie

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there is a permanent record for students after the lesson. Feedback is great, students feel the reduction in cognitive load, ask great questions and are more involved. Made one big notebook this year, but will section it into topics next year. Wouldn’t go back to PowerPoint now. 2/2

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I stopped using PowerPoint this year. Use projected class notebook along with IPad & Apple Pencil. Students teaching notes along with retrieval questions, video links, images or anything else that might be needed for lesson is put in it. We build understanding over the lesson & 1/2

‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This made me happy. Thank you

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Took our first year’s to see the #MuseumoftheMoon at St. Canice’s Cathedral. It was lots of fun getting them to find the names of the craters and finding the landing site. Plus it looked amazing. #ES4 #JCScience

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‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Too cloudy in the “sunny” South-East of Ireland to see the #lunareclipse for #ES4 in #JCScience 😢

He really isn’t pretty enough!

Looking forward to reading this.

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It’s been a busy week so far. Had Cluster Day 2 for Biology and we had an excellent presenter. We have 7 Biology teachers in school but can only go to Oide sessions 2 at a time. Still no closer to making teaching sequence decisions but feeling better about it all. #edchatie #lcrefrom

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Looking forward to getting my hands on this at the end of the month. Liked the idea of thematic approach (before I had an Oide days) and the types questioning. #edchatie

‘Chele Morris @drmkck.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The quiz just spools for me but otherwise super excited to see it. #edchatie

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Thanks for that. About to start revision with my 3rd year students and had been debating whether to give time in lesson for making a weekly revision timetable or let them do it at home. Decision made now. #edchatie

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What is present at birth is not the same as the egg that will be released at ovulation. Every month egg-like cells start developing but only one develops into the egg contained in the Graafian follicle. The others disintegrate. That egg will have undergone meiosis at some point.

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I was only able to stream the first science talk. There have been no subsequent talks streaming. Any advice?

Lots of good things on #cogscisci too so worth checking the live stream if you have time today.

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Some great science speakers on the list. About to listen to @rsc.org Dr Kirsty Turner. Always love listening to her #edchatie #iteachchem

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