Sue Brindley
Position/Status
Senior Lecturer in Education
E-mail Address: sb295@cam.ac.uk
Phone: 01223 767642
Qualifications
BA (Hons) English; MA English Literature; MA Curriculum Studies
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
Steering Committee: ITTE (ICT in Teacher Education)
Steering committee: IFTE (International Federation for the Teaching of English)
OFSTED
NAACE
NATE
IAIMTE
Editor of Teacher Development: an international journal
Consultant to TTA and BECTa
Profile
Sue Brindley taught in secondary schools mainly in East London. She was Deputy Head (curriculum) and then moved into Inspector/Advisory role in Essex LEA. She was appointed to the Open University and wrote the distance learning Secondary English PGCE course, and was part of a team which developed the electronic conferencing facility. She then moved to policy and government level as Professional Officer for English at SCAA, now QCA, the governenment body which is responsible for the national curriculum and assessment arrangements.
She is involved in a number of research projects (see below) and is general editor of a forthcoming series (Open University Press) on teaching and ICT.
Academic Area/Links
Secondary English
ICT
Research Topics
ICT and the impact on teaching and learning
Secondary English teaching: across the curriculum
Current Research Projects
Developing Expertise of Beginning Teachers (with University of Oxford)
Becoming an English Teacher (with University of Sydney)
Technology Integrated Pedagogic Strategies (TiPS Project Cambridge funded)
Computer mediated communication: an investigation of the impact of e-conferencing on the PGCE course (Project Cambridge funded)
Schools of the Future: a European Project (with Trinity College Dublin; University of Evora, Portugal; and NFER)
Exploring issues in secondary English (BPRS funded with teachers from partnership schools)
Course Involvement
PGCE
MEd
Publications
Teaching with ICT Forthcoming Series Open University Press General Editor ICT and Literacy in Gamble and Easingwood ICT and Literacy (2000)
Teaching English (ed) (2000) Routledge