This section contains supporting resources for Guidance.
Guidance Team Newsletter – June 2025:
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Oide Guidance Newsletter for the 2024-2025 academic year! This issue is packed with inspiration, practical tools, and fresh insights to support you, whether you’re pausing for reflection, thinking ahead to next year, or simply curious to stay connected over the summer.
Here’s a quick taste of what’s inside:
Spotlight on Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI): Learn how their school programmes, from Industry Insights for Teachers to Management Excellence for Principals, are bridging the gap between education and the world of work.
AI in Schools – Practical Tools for Guidance: Explore Oide Technology in Education’s new online course on AI, and an example of how to use the RASE Prompt Framework in the context of guidance.
Inclusive Pathways to Higher Education: Discover the transformative ASIAP Programme at Trinity College Dublin for students with intellectual disabilities—an inspiring model of inclusive, future-focused progression.
Guidance Team Newsletter – February 2025:
Welcome to the third edition of the Oide Guidance Newsletter for the 2024-2025 academic year! This issue is packed with insights and updates to support your work in guidance, from national policy developments to practical resources for career exploration in Transition Year. We also highlight upcoming events, including our upcoming workshops at the IGC Conference, and share details on new professional development opportunities for Guidance Counsellors and Senior School Leaders and those involved in Whole School Guidance. Whether you’re looking for fresh ideas or key updates, there’s plenty here to explore.
Guidance Team Newsletter – December 2024:
Welcome to our OIde Guidance second Newsletter of 2024-25. Daniel McFarlene, Access Manager with the Irish Universities Association, shares key tips for classroom presentations on DARE/HEAR programmes. For students interested in Allied Healthcare, a major change for September 2025 entry to Ulster University requires applicants to complete the MSAT Ulster. The edition also highlights Building Heroes, featuring three videos showcasing opportunities in construction. A DFHERIS social media campaign aims to dispel myths about careers in construction
Guidance Team Newsletter – October 2024:
This newsletter introduces the Oide Guidance Team for 2024/25. It highlights the inclusion of Guidance in Oide cluster days for Professional Learning. It provides updates on school support and resources to assist with whole-school Guidance planning. Additionally, it features a spotlight on tertiary degrees from the National Tertiary Office, including supplementary information and a dedicated toolkit for guidance counsellors.
Planning a Responsive and Effective Guidance Programme across the Continuum of Learning:
This Padlet accompanied the full cluster day of professional learning 24/25 on planning a responsive and effective Guidance Programme across the continuum of learning. The Padlet acts as a repository of resources and links to external websites, with materials that may be helpful in assisting with planning for the programme of Guidance in your school context.
Whole School Guidance:
This Padlet accompanied the professional learning on whole school Guidance. The Padlet acts as a repository of resources and links to external websites, with materials that may be helpful when planning, developing or implementing whole school Guidance in your school context.
Guidance School Support:
This Padlet acts as a supportive repository of resources and links for in-school support. It can be helpful to have these resources available to you in support of your Guidance needs.
Inclusion in Guidance:
This Padlet accompanied the professional learning on Inclusion in Guidance. The Padlet acts as a repository of resources and links to external websites, with materials that may be helpful when supporting all students.
Anxiety in Post Primary Students, Addressing the Guidance Counsellors Response:
This Padlet accompanied the professional learning on anxiety in post primary students, the guidance counsellors response. The Padlet acts as a repository of resources and links to external websites, with materials that may be helpful when supporting students in the context of social and personal guidance.
Junior Cycle Guidance:
This Padlet accompanied the full-day professional learning on Designing the Guidance Programme at Junior Cycle. The Padlet also includes images of the jointly created, thematic units of learning that the participants worked on at the events.
