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Personal Profile For Ms Susan Haywood
Assistant Dean Partnership. School of Education.
MEd [University of Wales, Cardiff], BEd [University of Birmingham].
Personal Statement:
Susan Haywood has been Head of Partnership within the School of Education, since September 2004. She is responsible for the strategic overview of the partnership with schools across the Education Studies Degree course, the Early Years Professional Status programme and the PGCE primary, KS2/3 and secondary courses. In this role she has spoken to two national seminars on projects undertaken with partner schools. She chairs the management group for the TDA-funded Partnership Development Schools Project in the South West One region.
Most of Susan Haywood's career prior to joining Bath Spa University College was spent in the primary education sector as a teacher and Headteacher and also in the advisory service of two Local Authorities, supporting teachers in the use of ICT in education.
Since joining BSUC, Susan has taught ICT to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has taught ICT and Professional Studies in the Primary PGCE course and co-ordinated two modules in the Education Degree: Learning in ICT, at level two and Investigation Methods in Education, a compulsory module for first year students. She has provided in-service training or support for teachers, early years practitioners and ICT co-ordinators in Bristol, Bath and Wiltshire, as well as presenting workshops on ICT in the Foundation Stage at ICT conferences.
Susan's own research interests focus on young children's interaction with electronic texts and she is currently registered as a PhD student at the University of the West of England.
Professional Qualifications:
M Ed University of Wales, Cardiff
B Ed Birmingham University
Diploma in Microcomputing, University of Wales, Cardiff
Certificate in Counselling, University of Wales, Newport
Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:
Information Technology in Teacher Education
United Kingdom Literacy Association
Teaching Specialism:
ICT in the primary curriculum
Learning in ICT
ICT in early years
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
May 07: paper on children's use of talking stories presented at University of Worcester.
April 07: Computers and Learning International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin Conference; paper presented on children's use of talking stories.
July 06: United Kingdom Literacy Association Conference, University of Nottingham; paper presented on children's use of talking stories.
September 05: Reconceptualising Teacher Education, Conference presentation given with colleagues from Bath Spa University at the National Primary Teacher Education Council Conference, St Hugh's College, Oxford
September 05: Redefining the aims of primary education: implications for teacher educators, Seminar presentation given at the Standing Committee for the Education and Training of Teachers, London
October 2004 Article: Building a creative Ecosystem - The Young Designers on Location Project with Davies, D and Howe, A in The International Journal of Art and Design.
2004 Teaching the National ICT Strategy at Key Stage Three (with Furlonger, C.) David Fulton
2004 Chapter (with Hutchings, M): ICT and learning for the future in Education studies: A student's guide. RoutledgeFalmer
June 03 Conference presentation on ICT in the Foundation Stage at Early Years Today Research Forum: Imagining the World: How can we support young children's understanding of the world?
July 03 Conference presentation on ICT in the Foundation Stage at the West of England ICT conference, University of the West of England
Be a Director CD rom (2003) Nelson Thornes (Series consultant)
Principles and Practice in the Foundation Stage (2003) with Hamilton, C, Gibbins, S, McInnes, K and Williams, J
Professional Issues in Primary Practice, Learning Matters, (2002) with Asprey, E and Hamilton, C
Current Scholarship:
Registered PhD student (University of the West of England) researching young children's interaction with electronic texts
Undertaking research into children as co-designers of talking stories with Taraneh Matloob, a writer of children's books in Iran.
Member of the team engaged by Wilshire LA to evaluate research into the use of supportive word processors by vulnerable learners.
External Examiners:
Other External Roles:
Currently chair of the management group for the Partnership Development Schools Project in the TDA South West 1 region.
Jan 2003 Member of a consultative group advising Becta on the use of the Internet in the Foundation Stage
Recent Professional Updating:
Development, Disruption and Debate, Computers and Learning Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, April 07
UKLA conference, University of Nottingham, July 06
UKLA Research day: Digital Literacy, Bath University, June 05
Computer Assisted Learning Conference: Virtual Learning? Bristol University, April 05
IT in Teacher Education Conference, July 2004
Last Updated: 13 December 2007.
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