Senior Lecturer in Physical Education
Roles: School Experience Coordinator; Curriculum Leader - Athletics
Qualifications
- PhD Health Based Physical Education (ongoing)
- MA Education (Effective Learning & Teaching) - Distinction
- BEd (Hons) Secondary Physical Education and History (QTS) - First Class Honours
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Teaching Expertise
- Unit Leadership - BA (Hons) Physical Education (QTS): Applied Physical Literacy 1 (Level 2); Final School Experience (Level 3); Major Athletics (Level 3)
- Teaching - BA (Hons) Physical Education (QTS): Foundations for Learning, Teaching and Inclusion (Level 1); Health-Based Physical Education (Level 1 and 2); Games (Level 2); Teaching for Learning 2 (Level 3); Minor Athletics (Level 3); Major Athletics (Level 3); Dissertation supervision
- Teaching - BA/BSc (Hons) Sport and Physical Education: Dissertation supervision (Level 3)
- Teaching - PGCE Physical Education: Athletics; Games; Health-Based Physical Education
- Teaching - MA Education: Reflecting on Professional Practice; Dissertation supervision
Research Degree Supervision
- MA Education Dissertation supervision
Research Interests
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Health-Based Physical Education
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Pupil-centred approaches to teaching and structuring curriculum athletics
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Technology Enhanced Learning
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Assessment for Learning
Research Projects
External Roles
- Elected Chairman of Boston and District Athletic Club (2011-)
- Elected Secretary of the Association for Physical Education (afPE) East Executive Committee (2008-)
- Competition Organiser and Meeting Manager for the Bedfordshire & Luton Schools’ Combined Events Championships (2009-)
Media release - Student PE teachers host athletics event
- Invited member of the Bedfordshire Sports Colleges Network (2007-2011)
- Invited member of the England Athletics 'Schools Athletics Leadership Group' (2008)
- Licensed UK Athletics Teacher, Coach and Officials Education Tutor (2005-)
- Advisor to UK Athletics in the development of the 'Strategy for Teacher Education' and national 'Elevating Athletics' resources. I was the lead teacher in the original 'Elevating Athletics Primary DVD' (2003-2005)
- Reviewer for ‘Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy’ journal
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Association for Physical Education
- British Educational Research Association
- Member of the BERA Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Special Interest Group
- Associate Member of the Association for Learning Technology
Publications
- Bassett, S., Bowler, M. & Newton, A. (in press) ‘Schemes of work, units of work and lesson planning’ in Capel, S., Leask, M. & Turner, T. (eds.) Learning to Teach in the Secondary School: A companion to school experience (6th edn.) London: Routledge
- Bowler, M., Sammon, P., Casey, A., Haerens, L. & Kirk, D. (manuscript under preparation) ‘Developing a pedagogical model for Health-Based Physical Education: Teaching and learning features’.
- Sammon, P., Bowler, M., Casey, A., Haerens, L. & Kirk, D. (manuscript under preparation) 'Developing a professional development programme for teachers to implement and sustain a Health-Based Physical Education model in their schools'.
- Bowler, M. & Raiker, A. (2011) ‘Learning to ‘chat’: Developing a pedagogical framework for facilitating online synchronous tutorial discussion’. Journal of Pedagogic Development, 1 (1), pp. 6-16. Available at: http://www.beds.ac.uk/learning/jpdvol1
- Newton, A. & Bowler, M. (2010) ‘Assessment for and of learning’ in Capel, S. & Whitehead, M. (eds) Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience (3rd edn). London: Routledge. pp. 119-133.
- Sammon, P. & Bowler, M. (2009) ‘Developing Physical Education in Malawi’. Physical Education Matters, 4 (4), pp. 53-54.
- Killingbeck, M., Bowler, M., Golding, D. & Sammon, P. (2007) ‘Physical Literacy and Physical Education’. Physical Education Matters, 2 (2), pp. 20-24.
Funding Awards
- Developing Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE) Project Grant. Sept 2010 – August 2013. £19,700 per year. A 3 year project titled ‘Professional Development for teachers in Rural Malawi’. Led by Professor Kate Jacques (University of Bedfordshire) and St. Joseph’s Teacher Training College, Dedza, Malawi.
See http://www.beds.ac.uk/news/2010/jul/100723-malawi .
Conference Presentations
- Sammon, P., Bowler, M., Casey, A., Haerens, L. & Kirk, D. (2011) ‘Developing a professional development programme for teachers to implement and sustain a Health-Based Physical Education model in their schools’. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Institute of Education, London, 6-8 September.
- Bowler, M., Sammon, P., Casey, A., Haerens, L. & Kirk, D. (2011) ‘Developing a pedagogical model for Health-Based Physical Education: Identifying assumptions about learning and teaching’. Paper presented at the International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) Annual Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, 22-25 June 2011.
- Bowler, M. (2011) ‘Valuing the physically active life: Developing and sustaining Health-Based Physical Education in primary schools’. Paper presented at the Inaugural Exchange Conference between the University of Bedfordshire, Ghent University and University of Birmingham, Ghent University, Belgium, 16 February 2011.
- Lorente, E., Kirk, D., Newton., A. & Bowler, M. (2010) ‘Conceptualisation and implementation of formative assessment in a UK University. The case of the subject ‘Assessing Learning & Developing Teaching’ in the Faculty of Education and Sport at the University of Bedfordshire’. Paper presented at 5th International Congress of Formative Assessment in Higher Education, University of Alcala, Spain, 2-4 September 2010.
- Bowler, M. (2009) ‘Learning to ‘chat’ in a virtual learning environment: Using online synchronous discussion to conduct a first year undergraduate tutorial’. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2-5 September 2009.
Available at: www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/184295.pdf.
- Bowler, M. (2009) ‘The influence of the TARGET motivational climate structures on pupil physical activity levels during year 9 athletics lessons’. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2-5 September 2009.
Available at: www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/184297.pdf.
- Bowler, M. (2009) ‘The influence of the TARGET motivational climate structures on pupil physical activity levels in physical education’. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) PE & Sport Pedagogy Special Interest Group Symposium, University of Birmingham, 23 March 2009.
Contact Details
T: + 44 (0)1234 793379
E:
mark.bowler@beds.ac.uk
