Director's Annual Report 2010 - Laois education Centre

ELECTION OF COMMIT TEE
Those present were elected to the Management Committee, with the addition of Fran Bates, Camille
King, Niamh Campion and John Moran
APPOINTMENT OF AUDITORS
It was proposed by Kathleen O’Connor and seconded by Dinah Kingsley that the auditors (Fingleton,
Peters and Tyrell) should be retained for 2010.
The Chairperson and the Director were complimented by Dinah Kingsley on their efficiency and hard
work.
The next Management Committee was arranged for Tuesday 2 nd March at 4.45pm
Signed: _____________________________ ___________________________
Jim Enright, Director
Kathleen O’Connor, Chairperson
Date: _____________________________ ___________________________
DIRECTOR’S REPORT
2010 has been a very busy year for all in Laois Education Centre. It has been a year of growth, change
and challenge, all of which have been embraced by both staff and management and responded to in a
very committed and professional manner.
2010 witnessed many changes nationally, regionally and locally and saw the winding down of many
support services that Education Centres have worked with in the past including PPDS, SDPI, SDI, LDS,
SLSS, JCSP, RESS, JCPE, LCA, Reading Recovery, Maths Recovery and the Stay Safe Programme, all of
which were replaced with a reconceptualised form of school support and teacher professional
development. This new service which is called the Professional Development Service for Teachers
(PDST) sees a move to a generic and integrated cross-sectoral support which will operate on a regional
basis, providing teacher professional development and school support through multi-disciplinary teams
of seconded teachers, who will work in close co-operation with the Education Centre Network in
responding to professional development needs identified by schools. The regional teams will also
respond to needs identified as part of WSE and to current and future national system priorities. The
capacity of the regional teams will be augmented by the work of local facilitators and associate trainers.
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