Back to Plan your Day 2022 – Tony Cotton – transforming teaching – lessons learned from teaching under the pandemic Teaching and Learning Leeds Conference 2023 Session Choice #2 Workshop facilitator Tony Cotton Name of Workshop Transforming teaching – lessons learned from teaching under the pandemic Who is it for All delegates Brief synopsis of workshop: Tony and Helen will draw on their recent book which shares the experiences of 12 educators from around the world as they developed their practice to teach under the pandemic. These narratives describe the successes and challenges of teaching remotely and explore how our practice can build on this learning once we returned to classroom teaching. What you will get out of it: A space to reflect on their own practice; ideas for ways to develop teaching drawing on what we have learned about learning and teaching in the last 2 years. Profile of facilitator: Tony started his career teaching mathematics in secondary schools in Sheffield. He then worked as an advisory teacher for anti-racist and multicultural education in Leicester. He became a lecturer in secondary mathematics education at the University of Nottingham, gaining his PhD in 1999. He has taught on secondary and primary teacher education courses in Nottingham and Leeds becoming Head of the School of Education and Childhood at Leeds Metropolitan University. In 2012 he left the University sector to work full time as a writer and freelance educational consultant. He has a wide range of international experience working in over 30 different countries on teacher education. He teaches on the international PGEI delivered by the University of Nottingham in SE Asia leading the course in Thailand. Tony has written primary mathematics programmes for the international school market and regularly presents webinars for large international audiences. Other publications include Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics, now in its 4th edition. More recently published are Being a Teacher and Transforming Teaching, two books which draw on Tony’s international experience to share the experiences of educators around the world. Tony is editor of Mathematics Teaching, the journal of The Association of Teachers of Mathematics. Twitter @journal editor6 @TonyCotton9 Blog
