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Faculties & Departments
Department of Education
Rose Dolan
B.A.(Mod), H.Dip.Ed., M.Ed.
Education Department
NUI Maynooth
Co Kildare
Ireland
Telephone: 01 708 3686
Facsimile: 01 708 4610
Email: rose.dolan@nuim.ie
Rose Dolan is a lecturer in education with a particular interest in the techniques that enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. She is the course leader of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Education, and lectures on topics related to pedagogy, reflection on teaching and learning in the classroom, and quality in teaching and learning in the M.Ed and M.Ed (School Leadership).
Rose also coordinates the structured teaching practice, which is an integral part of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Education, and supports a team of supervisors working with the students during their teaching practice.
As an experienced teacher of Science and Mathematics, Rose has a particular interest in Science and Mathematics education. She has been actively engaged in developing innovative approaches to teaching mathematical concepts.
Rose has a long-standing interest in the leadership role of young people, and is one of the founders of the Gluais programme, which engages in leadership development work with young people in post-primary schools in Dublin and Kildare.
Rose is a member of the Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium (CDPC), http://cdpc.ie, a unique cluster of scientific, academic and NGO professional expertise, who are working together to build educational capacities for combating diseases of poverty in East Africa.
Her research interests include:
- Pathways to becoming a teacher educator in Ireland;
- Teacher development and reflective teaching;
- Initial Teacher Education and Induction of Beginning Teachers;
- Models of Student Leadership in second level schools;
- Developing Mathematical Thinking.
Papers and presentations:
Dolan, R. and Gleeson, J. (eds) The Competences Approach to Teacher Professional Development: Current Practice and Future Prospects Armagh: SCoTENS 2007
Dolan R. and Gleeson, J. The Competences Debate and Teacher Professional Development (p1 – 6) in The Competences Approach to Teacher Professional Development: Current Practice and Future Prospects Armagh: SCoTENS 2007
“The Role of the Principal – Who Decides?” National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals Carlow March 2007
‘The Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers’ Induction Programme for Newly Qualified Teachers Kildare April 2007
‘Mentors and Newly Qualified Teachers – a relationship based on trust’ Induction Programme for Mentor Teachers Galway 2006
‘The Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers’ Induction Programme for Newly Qualified Teachers Sligo 2006
‘Mentoring in the Induction Process’ Induction Programme for Mentor Teachers Donegal 2006
‘Integrating Tools for Reflection’ International Symposium on Values in Teacher Education, Germany 2006
‘The role of the co-operating teacher in Initial Teacher Education’ Seminar for Co-operating Teachers UCD 2006
and Dr. B. Walsh and Dr. J Harford ‘The Rhetoric and Reality of Induction Policy in Ireland’ Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference Dublin 2006
'Who’s Teaching the Teachers?'
European Conference on Educational Research Dublin 2005.
‘Mentors and Newly Qualified Teachers – a relationship based on trust’
Mentor Teachers Sligo 2005.
‘The Mentor Mosaic – your role within it’
Educational Studies Association of Ireland Dublin 2004.
‘Mentoring in the induction process - the role of the Mentor in your school’
School Principals Athlone 2004.
‘The Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers’
Newly Qualified Teachers University College Dublin, 2003.
‘Mentors and Newly Qualified Teachers –a relationship based on trust’
Mentor Teachers Kildare 2003.
'The Mentor Mosaic'
Paper presented to the Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, St. Mary’s University College, Belfast, 2003.
'The Relationship Between Newly Qualified Teachers and Mentors'
Education Department, UCD, October 2003.
'Issues of Diversity in the Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers in Post-primary Schools',
ESAI Conference, Belfast, 2003.
'Today’s Youth, Today’s Leaders'
Paper presented to the Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 2002.