Supporting Physics 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. 
The local evening support courses,  will be facilitated by local facilitators, to support local identified needs and be organised in partnership with Education Centres. 
Local Facilitators will be teachers who respond to an open invitation to contribute to CPD in their subject or programme areas or other areas where they have expertise and willingness to contribute. If you wish to become a Local Facilitator in Physics please email timregan@slss.ie 

A consultation service by fax, phone or email is available. Further support is offered through the online magazine ‘Physical Sciences’.

Issue 13 February 2010, of this magazine is now available by clicking on the image 

Online Safety Courses

 Safety and Health in the Science Laboratory for Teachers

This free course will help teachers of the Science subjects improve their knowledge and understanding of safety, health and welfare, particularly within the science laboratory.

Get Safe - Work Safe: Workplace Safety and Health for Senior Cycle Students

This short free course will develop your knowledge of workplace safety, health and welfare. We are all responsible for safety and health at some level and the more we understand it the better prepared we are to prevent accidents and ill-health at work.

It is aimed at senior cycle secondary school students who are engaged in work experience or holiday work, and as future members of the workforce. It is provided by the Health and Safety Authority in Ireland.

Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) of Substances and Mixtures

under EU CLP Regulation. For further information, visit The Health and Safety Authority’s website www.hsa.ie or contact the CLP Helpdesk at e-mail clp@hsa.ie or telephone 1890 289 389

New booklet of Formulae and Tables for use in the State Examinations

New updated Mathematics Tables titled Formulae and Tables booklet has been published. The booklet is bilingual and is available from Government Publications sale office, Sun Alliance House, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2(Tel. 01 6476834), or through any bookseller, ISBN 9781406422832.
A draft document is available at http://www.lec.ie/Formulae_and_Tables_April08.pdf
It will be used in the 2010 examinations and subsequent years, and the older Mathematics Tables booklet will no longer be provided. This change to the examination papers will be implemented in 2011 and subsequent years. This means that, in 2010 only, candidates will have access to the information concerned in both the new Formulae and Tables booklet and on the examination paper.
In 2011 and subsequent years, any information that is available in the Formulae and Tables booklet will not be reproduced on the examination papers (for example, equations of motion, data available in the periodic table).
For more information visit http://www.examinations.ie/secmain/S_56_09_New_Booklet_of_Formulae_and_Tables_for_use_in_State_Examinations_Commission_2010.pdf

Physics Video Project

Physics teachers Noel Cunningham, The King's Hospital, and Thomas Healy, Cabinteely Community School, have produced about 100 physics classroom video clips of duration 2-7mins which they are willing to share- Thanks.   These clips and some others were  included in a DVD for teachers willing to investigate their impact on the learning of physics.  Interested colleagues were forwarded the DVD and  invited to try a few relevant clips in class over a 4-5 week period.  The feedback will be compiled and uploaded onto this site.

Have you registered?

If you are a physics teacher teaching in the Republic of Ireland, please Register your details so that you may be informed of upcoming courses.

New Classroom Resources

Congratulations to our colleagues who generated the exemplars. These exemplars have been tried, tested, evaluated and modified by them in their classrooms. Thanks to them for sharing their work and for making them available for you to download and customise in your own physics teaching. They are to be used for educational purposes only.

I invite you to share some of your evaluated exemplars by emailing them to timregan@slss.ie

PowerPoint Presentations and Flash Animations for Light now available in our Classroom Resources page

E-learning website

 A pilot project E-learning website has been set up for teachers participating in the ICT in Physics Modular Courses. It can be accessed by using this link and the password given at the course. If you cannot make the course and wish to be included as a collaborator on the site please contact timregan@slss.ie

New Bi-lingual Modern Physics Resource CD

If you wish to get your own copy please  Register 

 If you are using materials which enhance your teaching please contact us and let us know about them. You are invited to leave comments and suggestions on our   Forum.