Steven Fletcher
LLB Law, PGCE PCET, Level 4 Numeracy Subject Specialism
Teaching Fellow
Location:
Forster Building, City Campus
Phone: 0191 5153038 / 3192 / 2395 / 2201
Email:
steven.fletcher-1@sunderland.ac.uk
Teaching Areas
PGCE PCET
Research Interests
Engaging trainee teachers in Action Research as a means of professional development
Selected Publications
Fletcher S and Convery A (2010) Continuing Professional Development? Evaluating Teachers' Accredited Action Research Projects, CARN 2010 Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Fletcher S (2009) Improving the practice of trainee teachers through collaborative Action Research, CARN 2009 Conference, Campus of Athens College - Psychico College, Athens, Greece.
Convery A, Fletcher S and Mattinson E (2008) Challenging orthodoxies: improving FE through collaborative Action Research, CARN 2008, Collaborative Action Research Network, Liverpool Hope University.
Nixon L, Hudson M, Fletcher S and Duffy K (2008). Thinking through collaborative dialogue and shared practice for Post Compulsory Initial Teacher Trainers, BERA 2008, British Educational Research Association. Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.
Presentation of QIA 'Professionalising the Workforce' Case Study at University of Sunderland School of education and Lifelong Learning Research Conference, May 2008
Presentation at the House of Commons for the launch of the Centres for Excellence in Teacher Training initiative by QIA, October 2007
Fletcher S and Prinn D (2009) Professionalising the Teaching of Adult Numeracy: are we there yet?, Teaching in Lifelong Learning: A journal to inform and improve practice, Vol.1, iss.2, University of Huddersfield Press, Huddersfield
External Engagement
September 2009-August 2010, Contributed towards the planning and delivery of the national Research Development Fellowships, in conjunction with LSIS and the IfL
December 2008 - December 2009, In collaboration with Bishop Auckland College, piloted the induction of a University tutor on the Subject Learning Coach Programme.
