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Visiting Professor University of Sunderland Les Walton CBE
Chair Association of Education Advisers (AoEA)
Les has vast experience as a Headteacher, Director of Education and Chief Executive and Principal of an FE College. He has led major change programmes including the reorganisation of a school system within a metropolitan borough, the outsourcing of an education service within a large District Council, the merger of Further Education Colleges and the establishment of a large Multi Academy Trust. He has also operated at a national level, appointed by Secretary of State Ed Balls to lead and establish the Young Peoples’ Learning Agency and by Secretary of State Michael Gove to support the establishment of the Education Funding Agency. Lord Nash described Les Walton’s work as ‘a tale of great achievement but also of great governance’. He presently chairs the National Chairs Advisory Group and a large MAT. Les works at a strategic level supporting the establishment and development of education corporations. He works with Multi Academy Trust Boards, School Governing bodies.
Seminar overview:
This presentation will introduce some key messages from his newly published book ‘Education the Rock and Roll Years’, focusing on the impact of our childhood on our values and believes. Another key message is that leading involves discovering new things we can’t do.
Publications:
https://www.criticalpublishing.com/rock-and-roll-years
www.aoea.co.uk
https://www.tes.com/news/teachers-want-teach-system-stopping-them
Social Media: Follow Les on Twitter @LesWalton500
Visiting Professor Kay Sambell & Professor Sally Brown
Professor Kay Sambell is an Independent Consultant widely known internationally for her contributions to the Assessment for Learning (AfL) movement in higher education. A 2002 National Teaching Fellow (NTF) and Principal Fellow Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), she is President of the vibrant Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) conference series, ( https://ahenetwork.org/) and Visiting Professor of Assessment for Learning at the University of Sunderland and the University of Cumbria. Kay has held personal chairs in Learning and Teaching at Northumbria University, where she co-led one of the UK Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning which specialised in AfL, and, more recently, at Edinburgh Napier University.
Website: https://kaysambell.wordpress.com
Professor Sally Brown is an Independent Consultant in Learning, Teaching and Assessment and Emerita Professor at Leeds Beckett University where she was, until 2010, Pro-Vice-Chancellor. She is also Visiting Professor at Edge Hill University and formerly at the Universities of Plymouth, Robert Gordon, South Wales and Liverpool John Moores and at Australian universities James Cook Central Queensland and the Sunshine Coast. She is a PFHEA, a Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) Senior Fellow and an NTF. She is widely published on learning, teaching and particularly assessment and enjoys working with institutions and teams on improving the student learning experience.
Website: https://sally-brown.net
Sarah Martin-Denham
Sarah is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Vice-Chancellor Teaching Fellow,Chair of an independent SENCO network and a Convenor of an Interdisciplinary Research Network for developing knowledge, understanding and approaches for supporting children who are experiencing adverse childhood experiences. At the University of Sunderland Sarah is the Programme Leader for the National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination on campus and leads externally commissioned research projects. Through her work with children and families over the last twenty years and her neurodiverse abilities, she has developed a particular interest in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
Seminar Overview:
In this session Sarah will share her research findings of interviews with 174 children, caregivers and health and education professionals about their experiences of school exclusion. She will share the learning from the research including the barriers and enablers to mainstream schooling.
Social Media: Follow Sarah on Twitter @BlogSenco
Dr Elizabeth Hidson
Senior Lecturer in International Teacher Education, University of Sunderland
Elizabeth started her career in education as an IT teacher, progressing to ICT Advanced Skills Teacher, Lead Practitioner in ICT and later to assistant and deputy headteacher senior leadership roles in schools. Moving into academia, Elizabeth has been an educational technology researcher as well as teaching on PGCE, MA and doctoral training courses at Durham University, Newcastle University and the University of Sunderland. Elizabeth’s research interests involve technology and pedagogy, and the use of digital and visual research methods.
Seminar Overview:
Developing pedagogy by proxy through shared lesson resources
At the heart of any teaching resource is an unheard narrative: the decision-making process that the teacher has gone through in order to develop the resource for the students that they teach. This is built from a range of knowledge sources accessed by teachers from the start of their career, which develops over time as the teacher develops. In this session we will look at how pedagogical knowledge can be enhanced through shared lesson resources and professional communities of practice.
Publications:
Hidson, Elizabeth (2021) Pedagogy by proxy: teachers’ digital competence with crowd-sourced lesson resources. Pixel-Bit Journal of Media and Education, 61 (May 21). pp. 197-229. ISSN 1133-8482
Hidson, Elizabeth (2020) Internet Video Calling and Desktop Sharing (VCDS)as an Emerging Research Method for Exploring Pedagogical Reasoning in Lesson Planning. Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, 5 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2364-4583
Hidson, Elizabeth (2018) Video-enhanced lesson observation as a source of multiple modes of data for school leadership: A videographic approach. Management in Education, 32 (1). pp. 26-31. ISSN 0892-0206
Social Media: Follow Elizabeth on Twitter @PGCEIDL
Associate Professor, Maddalena Taras
Maddalena Taras researches all things assessment: assessment relating to student inclusion and supporting student learning through assessment; evaluating and developing theoretical frameworks for summative, formative, self-assessment and feedback, and, how these relate to practice; evaluating linguistic and cultural influences on perceptions of assessment and resulting institutional discrepancies in assessment practices; developing and evaluating assessment theories and practices within and across sectors; evaluating theoretical claims for assessment for learning and how these relate to practice.
Seminar Overview:
Assessment: Getting to the Root of the Matter
This session clarifies why theory is central to understanding what we do and why we do it, and why it is particularly important in assessment practices.
Visiting Professor, Andrew Moffat MBE
Andrew is a PhD Student with the University of Sunderland and Personal Development Lead for the Excelsior Trust. He was a Global Teacher finalist and a year 4 class teacher.
He is the Author of ‘No Outsiders’
Publications:
No Outsiders
Social Media: Follow Andrew on Twitter @moffat_andrew
Jo McShane
Publications:
Stuck in the Twilight Zone: Guiding Trainee Teachers across Tricky Terrain………. 37 A Thinkpiece working paper by Jo McShane in Lofthouse, RM (2018) What is more important to the success of schools? Teacher collaboration or the management of teachers? CollectivED Working Papers, 2. pp. 16-20. CollectivEd Feb 2018 Issue 2.pdf (leedsbeckett.ac.uk)
What they didn’t teach me on my PGCE’ by Sarah Mullin Word & Deed Publishing Incorporated December 11, 2019 University Library https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1999422449/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
Social Media: Follow Jo on Twitter @UPgce
Haili Hughes
Haili Hughes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland on the English PGCE course and Head of Education at IRIS Connect. She is also a former English teacher, Head of Department and Senior Leader who has mentored new teachers and ITT students for over ten years. From her working class roots of growing up on a council estate in the North West of England, she worked several jobs to put herself through college and university and earn her degree in English. She went on to win a prestigious graduate trainee position at the News of the World newspaper in London, where she worked on their news and features desks before deciding to retrain as a teacher and do something a bit more morally satisfying.
As a Doctoral researcher, she is passionate about keeping experienced staff in the classroom and helping to retain experienced teachers who may feel like they are somewhat jaded with the profession.
In addition to delivering mentor CPD across the world, she also delivers workshops in schools across the UK, with the most able learners, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to raise aspirations and train staff to ensure that they are challenging pupils and developing their pedagogy to meet their needs.
In her spare time, she writes regular articles for the TES and other education publications and peer reviews submissions for the Chartered College of Teaching's 'Impact' journal. She has written three education books and is currently writing the fourth and fifth for large education publishers.
Publications:
‘Mentoring in Schools’: amzn.to/38QRyNx