Our Teaching Collection comprises a wide variety of curriculum resources designed to support education students in acquiring the necessary skills to succeed in a classroom environment. On Library Search, these titles will appear as 'Primary Teaching Cregan' and the titles can be found on the 1st floor, Cregan Library.
All of the items in our Primary Teaching Collection are labeled with the prefix TC before the shelfmark, all items in our Post Primary Teaching Collection have the prefix TC PP.
The following resources can be found in the teaching collection:
Didn't find what you were looking for? Ask for help, or make a suggestion for teaching resources to your Subject Librarian
Alongside traditional classroom textbooks, the library also strives to offer a range of other non-book resources to help support students on teaching placement, and to help encourage engagement in the classroom.
Please look through these tabs to see what we have on offer.
As always, please do make suggestions for teaching resources to your Subject Librarian!
The concept of a story sack was conceived by Neil Griffiths and typically consists of a story book with props presented in a large cloth bag.
The purpose of a story sack is to stimulate reading activities and make shared reading a memorable and fun experience.
A story sack might include:
[All Dr. Geraldine French, 2010]
The Library holds 8 story sacks:
Farmer Duck / The journey home from Grandpa's
Owl babies / The journey
Animal boogie / Mama Panya's pancakes
Fatou fetch the water / The train ride.
Click here to view Story Sacks within Library Search!
All Story Sack sets are available to view and borrow from the main Library Helpdesk, just ask a Library Staff member.
**Think about gathering materials around a story and create your own story sack.**
We hold 3 giant storytelling puppet sets for use on teaching placement. These can be used to help supplement storytelling within the classroom, or just as a fun exercise for engagement.
Choose from:
Goldilocks and the Three Bears,
The Three Little Pigs (includes the Big Bad Wolf!),
and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Click here to view these in our Library Search!
All Puppet sets are available to view and borrow from the main Library Helpdesk, just ask a Library Staff member.
Irish vocabulary cards are designed exclusively for use in the classroom, and can help engage students while supporting language development.
There are a total of 12 different sets:
Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter
St. Patrick's Day / Easter / Halloween / Christmas
Santa - Daidí na Nollag / Doctor - An dochtúir
Vet - An tréidlia / Hairdresser - An gruagaire
Click here to view these in our Library Search!
All Vocabulary Card sets are available to view and borrow from the main Library Helpdesk, just ask a Library Staff member.
A very generous donation from publishers Glor na nGael means you can borrow some very fun games as Gaeilge for up to 3 weeks.
Some games as Gaeilge are:
Monopoly as Gaeilge ;
Scrabble as Gaeilge ;
Spraoi le hUimhreacha
Click here to view a listing of games as Gaeilge in Library Search!
OR browse the shelves in the Teaching Collection, under 372.6
Percussion sets are available to borrow for 3 week loan
Click here to view Percussion Sets within Library Search
Xylophones are available for a 1 week loan period only
Click here to view Xylophones within Library Search
We also hold a number of puzzles for numeracy and literacy that could be used in small group time in early childhood classes or E.A.L.
Some of the puzzles the library holds are:
Rory's story cubes max,
Rory's story cubes - enchanted,
Rory's story cubes - actions,
My first number snap,
Syllable snap,
M is for mouse
Click here to view a listing of numeracy and literacy games in Library Search!
OR browse the shelves in the Teaching Collection, under 372.6
The Library holds one multi-sensory book called The Little Seed.
The Little Seed is aimed at students with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Have a look to plan how you might make your own multi-sensory book!
We have a range of large format books, aka Big Books, for classroom use.
Big Books are available for a range of topics to support teaching, including Geography, Language development, Religion, Fiction, Science, and Arts.
Our Big Books in the Teaching Collection can be searched for in Library Search under "Large format for classroom use", and selecting Teaching Collection.
Click here to see this search for TC Big Books in Library Search!
A number of classroom sets are available to borrow to help with teaching
These include sets like:
An introduction to A midsummer night's dream : a play by William Shakespeare ;
Historical letters, diaries and journals ;
World weather ;
The human body ;
and others
Click here to view classroom sets from the Teaching Collection in Library Search!
We also have 2 classroom sets (boxed) containing 30 copies each of Farid's rickshaw ride by Rowan Oberman and the Trócaire / Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education initiative: Education for a Just World are available to borrow
(Thanks to the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education.)
Click here to see Farid's rickshaw ride in Library Search, or browse the Teaching Collection under 372.83 EDU