Background

I am a teacher educator, primary teacher (registered with the Teaching Council) and associate nutritionist (registered with the Association for Nutrition). I work as Registrar and Vice President (Academic Affairs) at the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin. Before becoming a teacher educator, I spent eleven years teaching, mostly in the Kilkenny School Project National School, where I spent a year as principal. My research interests include teachers’ mathematical knowledge, the teaching of mathematics in primary school, the quality of mathematics textbooks, and approaches to teacher education. I have studied in the United States, at Harvard University where I was awarded a Masters in Education (Technology in Education), and at the University of Michigan where I received a PhD (Teaching and Teacher Education) in 2008. I am a member of the Advisory Committee on the National Assessments of English Reading and Mathematics in Ireland. My book for beginning primary teachers, titled Become the Primary Teacher Everyone Wants to Have: A Guide to Career Success, was published by Routledge on 30 August 2016. Here is a review of the book from the November 2016 edition of InTouch. I present and produce Inside Education, a podcast about education. Views expressed here are my own – except where otherwise indicated.

You can download a short biographical sketch here and my curriculum vitae here. My blog can be read at http://seandelaney.com/. My profile on Google Scholar can be viewed here .

Blogs, Podcasts and Websites I Enjoy

Here is a selection of the blogs and podcasts that I dip into on a regular basis. Most of them relate to my interests in running, radio, writing and research; some of them are more general.

Category	Link	Type
Running, Health & Fitness	The Model Health Show with Shawn Stevenson	Podcast
Running, Health & Fitness	On the Regimen	Website
Writing
Research
General Interest	Seth Godin’s Blog	Blog
General Interest	Austin Kleon’s Blog	Blog
General Interest	Derek Sivers	Website
General Interest	Tim Ferriss Show	Podcast
General Interest	The Moment Podcast with Brain Koppelman	Podcast
General Interest	Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell	Podcast
General Interest	99 per cent invisible	Podcast
General Interest	Gaping Void	Blog
Education	Annie Murphy Paul	Blog
Spirituality	Zen Habits	Blog
Spirituality	On Being	Podcast and website

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