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.

 

List of Publications

Journal Articles

‘More than canons: battling over the knowledge needed to teach literature’,  Education Research.

‘Echo, not quotation: what Conversation Analysis reveals about classroom responses to heard poetry’, Classroom Discourse,   3:1 (May 2012).  ISSN 1946-3014 (Print), 1946-3022 (online). 

'What is not said on hearing poetry’, 40-52,  English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 9:3 (2010)

‘Talking about poetry, elaborating Barnes’, 47-60, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 9:2 (2010)

‘Sound[']s right: pupils' responses to heard poetry and the revised National Curriculum for English’, 161-175, The Curriculum Journal, 20:2 (2009)

'True Soundings: the findings of the 2007 OFSTED report ‘Poetry in Schools’ and pupils responses to poetry they hear’, 223-233 (11) Changing English, 15:2  (2008)

'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
 

Book sections 

'Listening for echoes: heard poetry and oral response' in Dymoke, S., Lambrith A. and Wilson, A. (2013) Making Poetry Matter: International Research on Poetry Pedagogy  Bloomsbury.   

'Literacy Across the Curriculum', pages to be confirmed,  in Brooks, V., Abbott, I. And Bills, L. (June 2012) Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools: A Student Teachers Guide to Professional Issues in Secondary Education, Third Edition (0335225349) Maidenhead: Open University Press.  

‘Articulating the auditory imagination: when children talk about poetry they hear’, 203-210, in Styles,M., Joy, L. and Whitley, D. (2010), Poetry and Childhood, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham. Preface by Andrew Motion.

'Literacy Across the Curriculum', 208-217, in Brooks, V., Abbott, I. And Bills, L. (2007) Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools: A Student Teachers Guide to Professional Issues in Secondary Education, Second Edition (0335225349) Maidenhead: Open University Press.
 
‘Introduction’, 1-15, in Battersby,J. and Gordon,J. (2006) Preparing to Teach: Learning from Experience, Routledge:London, ISBN 978-0-415-30096-4.

‘Learning about Yourself’, 171-187, in Battersby, J. and Gordon, J. (2006) Preparing to Teach: Learning from Experience, Routledge:London, ISBN 978-0-415-30096-4.

 

Books 

Gordon, J. (2013) Observing English, SAGE  

Gordon, J. (2012) Pedagogy of Poetry, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham 

(Co-editor) Battersby, J. and Gordon, J. (2006) Preparing to Teach: Learning from Experience, Routledge: London, ISBN 978-0-415-30096-4

The book and chapters are founded on research data drawn from questionnaires supplied to over 150 students, and further data drawn from teachers in the mentor role.