Lorna Shires - Oxford Brookes University

Mrs Lorna Shires

M.Sc (Oxon); B.Ed (Hons.); B.Phil.Ed ( Hons) FHEA; FCCT

Principal Lecturer: Teacher Development Programme Lead : Initial Teacher Education

School of Education

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Phone number: 01865 488315

Email: lshires@brookes.ac.uk

Location: Harcourt Hill Campus BG/30

I am responsible for Initial Teacher Education. I work with staff across the university and with schools to ensure the highest quality curriculum for and achievement by our student teachers.

Teaching

I particularly enjoy teaching modules concerned with developing the professional practice and judgement of teachers.

Modules taught

PGCE P073026 An Introduction to Professional Practice

PGCE P070327 Key Issues in Learning and Teaching

PGCE P0 70328 Supporting Evidence-Informed Practice

PGCE U77116 Professional Studies

BAPTE 6009 Extending Professional Practice

Supervision

MA Education

Research

My research looks at the expertise of expert teachers through a cultural-historical perspective and so considers expertise; quality of teaching; teacher effectiveness, but also teacher development.

Research group membership

STEAM Oxford Brookes University

OSAT University of Oxford

Research grants and awards

BERA Curriculum Forum 2019

Research projects

Expert teaching: what matters to expert teachers ?

Beginning Teaching: Relational Teaching

Publications

Published by BERA 30.1.2020

https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/exploring-task-design-as-an-enabler-of-leading-teaching-in-secondary-schools

BERA Curriculum Investigation Grant 2018-2019 Awarded

Shires L (2018). Using theories of task design in curriculum planning. Impact (4). Journal of the Chartered College of Teachers

Shires L (2017) It's All About the Teacher: why that 'truth' might not be all that it seems.FORUM Volume 59 Number 3

My professional background is one of leading large, complex and urban schools. I have also been a school governor of both secondary and primary schools. My main practice interest is pedagogy and how teachers teach.

I am interested in educational policy and leadership, and very interested in tackling disadvantage through education. I was awarded Chartered Urban Leader status and I have coached many middle leaders who wish to be outstanding leaders in schools serving socio economically challenged areas.

I was responsible for developing in Oxfordshire a national programme that developed intensive family support to improve children’s behaviour and attainment at school.

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