This site is presented jointly by Cornmarket Group Financial Services and the Royal & Sun Alliance insurance company, covering areas of interest to teachers both in their careers and their personal lives.
The homepage is attractive and enticing, as a good one should be, featuring different aspects of a teacher's working life and . . . well, a plane in the corner presumably to suggest that teachers might enjoy a sunshine holiday occasionally. And why not, they have the next three months off to do so.
In its news section it declares itself open for business and promises: "The information you seek will be here. The only comment and opinion on our screens will be yours." So, does it deliver?
The painfully named Advice 4 U (surely a teachers' site should use something more appropriate than Prince lyrics as a spelling guide) section leads into several subsections. One of these, Curriculum Developments, is nothing but a link to the Department of Education and Science.
Nothing wrong with that, but it is better to tell people exactly what it is rather than seeming to offer something which is actually held elsewhere. I am sure it would be possible to get permission from the department to use this material within teachers.ie.
The forum section, which allows you to contribute to a topic already being discussed or start a new discussion, is a good idea. It could allow teachers around the State to sound each other out on new ideas.
Many of the sections, while avoiding the "under construction" cliche, have very little in them other than saying what they intend to provide in the future. I really wish that websites would realise that nothing annoys the web-user more than clicking into something which promises lots and delivers little or nothing.
The site was very slow to connect from page to page when I was using it and some of the links were broken. Overall, teachers.ie could do better.
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