Pat Moore BSc (Honours), PGCE / QTS, MEd, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education
Summary
As course leader for the PGCE Science course Pat manages the recruitment to the courses and delivery of university sessions on the PGCEs for Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
About
Pat was a Science teacher in a large 11 - 18 comprehensive in the West Country for twenty-one years before joining Sheffield Hallam University. She had a number of responsibility roles in Science, including KS3 / KS4 Co-ordinator and Head of Post-16 Biology as well as pastoral responsibilities.
She has been involved in Initial Teacher Education for many years, initially as a mentor for the Open University, then with the University of Bath where she worked as Science Tutor on the Middle Years Science course for a year.
She studied for an MA in Education with the Open University while teaching and has extensive experience of classroom based action research, with a particular interest in the development of pupil talk in science classrooms. Pat's most recent post in school was as Training Manager, having a responsibility for coordinating ITT, NQT induction and whole staff CPD.
She joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2008 and is currently the course leader for the PGCE sciences. In this role she has worked to develop students' skills as they make the transition from writing as scientists to reading and writing as social scientists in the field of education in addition to the usual coordination and delivery of specialist subject sessions and more general professional sessions.
Pat has a particular interest in exploring the current issues with the teaching of secondary biology and how beginning teachers can develop their classroom approaches.
She also works with a local sixth form college to coordinate a link between the university and the college in order to help develop higher level skills in students engaged in the Extended Project
Her area of interest is the teaching of biological science in secondary schools and the possible implications for teacher training.
She is also interested in the transition from sixth form to higher education.
Teaching
Department of Teacher Education
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Pat is the course leader for the Secondary Science PGCE (Biology, Chemistry and Physics)
Pat delivers modules in biological sciences at both undergraduate and post graduate level and is involved in the delivery of CPD sessions for non - specialist teachers.
She also teaches on the Professional Year in Science, delivering many of the education sessions.
Research
Pat is currently engaged in doctoral study focusing on the development of subject identity in secondary biology teachers.
Publications
Journal articles
Taylor, C.A., Gannon, S., Adams, G., Donaghue, H., Hannam-Swain, S., Harris-Evans, J., ... Moore, P. (2019). Grim tales: Meetings, matterings and moments of silencing and frustration in everyday academic life. International Journal of Educational Research, 99, 101513. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2019.101513
Gannon, S., Taylor, C., Adams, G., Donaghue, H., Hannan-Swain, S., Harris-Evans, J., ... Moore, P. (2019). ‘Working on a rocky shore’: Micro-moments of positive affect in academic work. Emotion, space and society. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.04.002
Other activities
Pat is a member of the Association for Science Education and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.