Geoff Petty

Author of Teaching Today the UK’s best selling teacher training text, he has a reputation for explaining learning and teaching issues in a down to earth, but lively and inspiring way.  He has worked as a consultant with over 200 Colleges, and with most national educational agencies: Department for Children, Schools and Families, LSDA, LSC, FENTO and the AoC.  He speaks on learning and teaching issues at conferences all over the country, and his work issued at a national level in Romania and Lithuania.

He has worked as a physics teacher, a teacher trainer, and as a Learning Development Manager.  He has written How to be Better at Creativity (Kogan Page), and his work has been translated into eight languages.

His website, www.geoffpetty.com, has lots of downloads on it, and gets visited about 2000 times a week. His new book, Evidence Based Teaching is written for practising teachers and came out in 2006 to critical acclaim from academia and from practising teachers.

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Sunday 2 November 2008, 4.00pm Lecture Theatre 2
Evidence based education



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