John Gordon is a Lecturer in Education and tutor for the Secondary English PGCE course. He has special responsibility for Partnership matters and is the liason with external agencies. His research specialism is teaching and learning with poetry in schools. He has worked as a teacher of English and Media Studies and held management responsibilities within local departments.

Projects

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.