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Practical notes on SEN, EAL and differentiation in Irish classrooms — from the research behind Tuto.
Bilingual children in Irish classrooms: what teachers actually see
Ireland's classrooms are multilingual in fact, if not in materials. What we heard from teachers about EAL children — and what the home language has to do with learning.
The progress record that lives on paper — and dies in June
A year of a child's small wins is usually a few bullet points in a copybook. In September, the next teacher starts from zero. It doesn't have to work this way.
Why differentiated materials take hours — and what that actually costs
Teachers describe the same cycle everywhere: source, adapt, print, laminate, cut — for each child, every week. The cost isn't just time. It's what the time was for.