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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
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Jane Smithson

Position

Jane SmithsonSenior Lecturer, Primary Education

Profile

Teaching Experience

  • Primary English Consultant (Bedford Borough School Improvement Team)
  • Every Child a Reader Teacher Leader (Bedford Borough School Improvement Team)
  • Advisory support teacher for SEN (Bedfordshire, Psychology & Advisory Support Team)
  • Advisory support teacher for behaviour (Milton Keynes)
  • Inclusion manager (primary school in Milton Keynes)
  • Deputy Head teacher (lower school in Northamptonshire)
  • Class teacher within a middle and lower school (Nottinghamshire)
Community
  • Previously a governor within a lower school

Qualifications

  • BEd (Hons)
  • MA (Literacy Learning & Literacy Difficulties) – awaiting award
  • Reading Recovery Teacher Leader 
  • Talking Partners & Fischer Family Trust trainer 
  • National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)

Teaching Expertise

  • Tutor and Early Years specialist lead on PGCE
  • Year 1 BEd tutor (Perspectives, Values, Principles & Beliefs of Education)
  • Year 2 BEd tutor (English)
  • Year 4 BEd dissertation tutor

Research Interests

  • Early literacy development
  • Interventions to support struggling pupils 
  • Professional development models to support teachers and teaching assistants in meeting the literacy needs of all pupils

Research Projects

Does the presence of a Reading Recovery teacher have a positive impact on pupil outcomes and quality of delivery of a less intensive early literacy intervention delivered by teaching assistants?

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1234 793455
E: jane.smithson@beds.ac.uk

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