Dr John Gordon
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer |
John dot Gordon at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3921 |
EDU/SYS 1.53 |
Biography
Dr John Gordon is a Lecturer in Education and Tutor for the Secondary English PGCE course. He has special responsibility for Partnership matters, including professional recognition for mentors within the GTCE Teacher Learning Academy framework. His doctoral research considered teaching and learning with poetry in schools, with particular focus on how children respond to poetry they hear, explored through application of Conversation Analysis. He has recently published papers in the journals English and Education and Changing English, and contributed the chapter on Literacy Across the Curriculum to the book Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools (Second Edition). He is a co-editor of the book Preparing to Teach: Learning from Experience. Over recent years he has had involvement in a number of TDA-sponsored projects, most recently the Partnership Development Scheme leading to a conference on the pedagogical subject knowledge of English mentors with regard to initial teacher education.
List of Publications
Journal Articles
"Multimodality and learning with poetry" (2005), 11th International Journal of Leaning, pp 431-439
"Verbal Energy: Attending to Poetry" (2004), English in Education, 38, 1, pp90-101.
Electronic publications
Mentoring trainee teachers in monitoring and assessment (2005) TTA
Government publications
Supporting ITT providers: guided group work in English (2004) DfES/National Literacy Strategy DFES 0141-2004
Key Research Interests
A Systematic Review of ITE Structures is being funded by the Teacher Training Agency and supported by the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI Centre) The review is seeking to answer the question "What evidence is there that the quality of ITE is influenced by its conceptual framework, organisational structure and management processes?" and expects to publish its first report early in 2005.
Poetry as Sound across KS2 and KS3 was funded by the Teacher Training Agency Research and Development Awards. Full details of the project and its outcomes can be found via this link:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/edu/tdaresearch/
Mentoring trainee teachers in monitoring and assessment is a CD-rom of training resources for ITT mentors, developed in partnership with Homerton College, Cambridge and Cambridge University Moving Image Studio. It will be available to schools from summer 2005.
Virtual Learning Environments was funded by the Teacher Training Agency Research and Development Awards. Full details of the project and its outcomes can be found via this link:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/edu/tdaresearch/
Guided Reading was Council for British Teachers project working with PGCE trainees and mentors on guided reading in English, involving 15 UEA partnership schools. See Supporting ITT providers: guided group work in English (2004) DfES/National Literacy Strategy DFES 0141-2004.
Literacy Progress Units was a Council for British Teachers project investigating the role of Literacy Progress Units in trainee and pupil learning.
