About Oide

Who we are

Oide provides high-quality professional learning supports and services to teachers and school leaders.

Along with bringing together all the valuable resources, expertise, and efficient operating systems, Oide also deploys other innovative and creative approaches to the provision of school support, and professional learning for teachers and school leaders, to meet the future needs of Ireland’s primary, post-primary and special schools, and other centres for education.

Our Vision

To support the transformation of education in Ireland by empowering teachers and school leaders to create dynamic and impactful learning experiences for all students, while ensuring coherence across the continuum of teacher learning provision.

The name Oide

The name Oide was chosen with great care and purpose.

The choice of an Irish word for the name of this support service represents the fundamental significance of the Irish language for our students and schools in our educational system. Oide is an Irish word meaning ‘teacher’ much like the Irish word ‘múinteoir’, but with a much older provenance. The term also has a broader meaning in the Irish language encompassing the roles of ‘tutor’, ‘instructor’ and ‘professor’. This rounded meaning of the word Oide in Irish reflects the broad and high standard of knowledge and skills the Oide had as a person renowned for their guidance, learning advice and teaching skills.

Our Mission

To provide high quality, evidence-informed, innovative, reflective and responsive professional learning experiences and materials/resources for teachers and school leaders in Ireland that enables them to meet the educational needs of all learners.

To engage positively and proactively with all relevant stakeholders to evaluate needs and establish priorities which will support the best possible outcomes for schools, school leaders, teachers, and learners.

To work hard to establish itself as a listening, highly responsive and future-proofed organisation that is well placed to introduce a more streamlined communications channel between itself and all schools, ensuring that both the varied and individual needs of schools are efficiently catered for.