Emma Snowden BSc Hons
Emma is a lecturer in Secondary Science on the PGCE Programme and is Coordinator, with Maggie Pitfield, of the Flexible PGCE Programme. Prior to joining the department in 2006 she taught Science in South East London secondary schools. Emma has had considerable experience implementing and managing whole school projects such as the Health Schools Standard.
Since joining Goldsmiths College Emma has designed and written the self-study, distance learning modules for the flexible PGCE Secondary Science. She has undertaken one Centre for Education, Learning and Technology [CELT] and one Teaching and Learning fellowship. The latter focused on Assessment and involved a detailed review of assessment practice across the Educational Studies department. The report highlighted a wealth of good practice and informed departmental staff development. The CELT fellowship enabled the Flexible PGCE tutors to work on a curriculum development project that aimed to engage students learning at a distance from Goldsmiths with their virtual learning environment.
Emma completed her MA in Education at Southbank University in June 2007. She is interested in exploring how pedagogy outside of the classroom impacts on the student learning experience. Emma believes that science is an active subject where students should have the opportunity to explore and discover the world around them. Her research for her MA involved investigating pupil engagement in science using a school garden as a teaching platform. She is committed to encouraging teachers new to the profession to base their teaching around good, practical science activities.
Emma is a member of the Association for Science Education.
Selected publications
Prince, T., Snowden, E., Matthews, B. (2010) Utilising Peer Coaching as a Tool to Improve Student-Teacher Confidence and Support the Development of Classroom Practice. Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal (LICEJ), Volume 1 (1), 45 - 51. ISSN 2040 2589 (Online) Published by Infonomics Society.
Snowden, E.(2009) Enjoy and Achieve: finding opportunities to action the Every Child Matters framework to provide opportunities for children and adults to work collaboratively on an outdoor learning project, FORUM, 51(2), 233-240.
Matthews, B., Prince, T. and Snowden, E. (2009) Peer coaching: To what extent can it support the development of professional attributes required to be a teacher? Presented at the London International Conference on Educationand published in conference proceedings.
Snowden, E., Matthews, B. (2007) Making science lessons engaging more popular and equitable through emotional literacy. The Science Education Review 6 (3), 1-16
Snowden, E. (2007) Learning through a school garden. Up the garden path. Unpublished MA dissertation, London: London South Bank University.