Rebecca Poole, Assistant Headteacher will be leading 17 teachers across a range of departments and responsibilities towards an MA in Education. Teachers have signed up for their first module “Developing Professional Practice” starting in January 2009.

Kevin Morris, Deputy Director, Professional Development at Middlesex said’ I am really excited to be working with Rebecca and the teachers at Hendon School. This is a really exciting extension to our school based MA work and we are keen to grow this across other Barnet and local schools.’

The MA will be delivered by the school and supported by Middlesex staff. Teachers will be given the opportunity to develop a research project around their needs, interest and aspirations and this will be dovetailed in to the School Development Plan. We are keen to make the MA as useful and as contextualised as possible while retaining the academic quality of Masters level work.

Midwheb Module Leader Awarded Fellowship For Innovative CPD

Bernadette Clinton has been awarded an International Professional Development Association fellowship award for long term work in education. Bernadette is pictured here receiving the award from Dr Ian Terrell of Middlesex University.

Bernadette has for two decades led innovative professional development in the London Borough of Enfield and been a leading figure in developments well ahead of their time.

In the early 1990s she was a leading member of Enfield’s “appraisal, assessment and evaluation” team, which promoted the notion of school self evaluation and the link between assessment, teaching and school development These preceded the current trend by about 10 years!

She also created and led a credit bearing induction programme for newly qualified teachers which foreshadowed the soon to be created Masters in Teaching and Learning programme recently announced by the government. The programme contained in depth development of teaching and learning, action research and critical reflection.

Her more recent work has involved creating the “Global Dimension to the curriculum - International Links programme, which she has led in conjunction with North London Schools International Network. She links this with the promotion of Comenius projects and Teachers International Professional Development tours. Recent professional development visits have been organised to Spain, China, and the Caribbean. A large number of Enfield Schools have achieved the International Schools Award under her encouragement and guidance.

In combination with Bernie Ashmore she has led and developed the very successful and popular “Developing Teaching and Learning” module which is an innovative programme dealing with developing creativity, assessment for learning, and higher order thinking skills. The workshop sessions regularly model teaching approaches used in classrooms.

Bernadette has also been a mainstay of the Enfield led “middle leadership and management” module.

She promoted the links between Enfield local authority and Middlesex University and was a founder member of what has become “Midwheb Partnership for Professional Development in Education”. She was awarded the title of Visiting Academic at Middlesex as long ago as 2001.

In the past she managed programmes offering alternative routes into teaching including the Licensed Teacher and Overseas Trained Teachers Schemes and the Graduate and Registered Teachers Programme.

Her publications, again emphasising her being in advance of her time, include in 1992 “Voicing the Views”, published in Managing Schools Today, a piece on student voice long before that term was popularised, and “Planning Student Involvement in School Development: In-house materials for Teachers and Students”(1994 Framework Press). She is currently working on a book for CILT, the National Centre for Languages called “Leading the Way: Coordinating Primary languages”.

Director of Professional Development at Middlesex University, Dr Ian Terrell said that IPDA, the leading association for Professional Development in the world, had chosen an unsung hero who was always ready to support teachers in their professional development, and to work collaboratively with partners.

• subject specialist programmes
• enterprise education
• school based projects
• new technology and learning.

Christine Llewellyn arrives with a lot of experience of Middlesex adminsitration and will make a major contribution to streamlining and supporting our practitioner researchers who are all at a distance from the University. She will be working jointly on MA Education and MA Inclusive Education with Joanna Sifonios.

The growing postgraduate professional development programme passed another milestone this week with over 20 graduates being awarded Masters in Education. The partnership's programme is led by schools and local authorities and based upon identified development needs and priorities. The boroughs of Enfield and Haringey were particularly to the fore in leading this work through programmes for early years, teaching and learning, and leadership and management. The work by Jan Hickman leading PE teachers from Westminster, Enfield, Barnet and Newham came to fruition with the graduation of Kevin Matthews. Sue Cook's "Foundation stage" programme with Enfield, Waltham Forest and Haringey input has resulted in the graduation of Sue Storey, Jude Wood, Marion Samuel, and Elizabeth Detheridge . Park View Academy and St Thomas Moore grdauted four teachers each. About a third of particpants report they are promoted as a result of their studies and several successful candidates moved from one partner borough or school to another. Midwheb Partnership work makes a real contribution to the development of education.

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