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Seán Delaney

Seán Delaney, PhD., is registrar and a mathematics educator at the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin. Before becoming a teacher educator, he spent eleven years teaching, mostly in the Kilkenny School Project National School, where he spent a year as principal. His research interests include teachers’ mathematical knowledge, practices of teaching, the quality of mathematics textbooks, and approaches to teacher education. He has studied in the United States, at Harvard University where he was awarded a Masters in Education (Technology in Education), and at the University of Michigan where he received a PhD (Teaching and Teacher Education) in 2008. He is author of the book Become the Primary Teacher Everyone Wants to Have: A Guide to Career Success which was published by Routledge in 2017. He (occasionally now) presents and produces the Inside Education podcast about education. He blogs at the website www.seandelaney.com.

Workshop on Inquiry in Primary Mathematics Teaching

In this workshop we will inquire together into the teaching of mathematics prompted by video excerpts of primary school lessons. Participants will engage in inquiry and/or observe it using one or more frameworks. Videos and transcripts (in English) will be provided as a basis for the inquiry. In light of the inquiry, we will discuss what is required to initiate and plan inquiry-based teaching of mathematics, how such inquiry can be made rigorous, and how such inquiry can improve mathematics teaching.