Maureen Haldane
Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow; Principal Lecturer; Director of the Promethean Centre of Excellence
Teaching Career began in Hackney, Inner London, in 1969. Taught in Primary and Secondary schools (Inner London, Surrey, Salford, Buckinghamshire, Cheshire). Main subject English, but with a vast experience of SEN. Also taught ESL in Sweden. Spent two years as TVEI adviser for Flexible Learning and Teaching Strategies in Cheshire (across all County secondary schools and colleges) prior to moving to Crewe and Alsager College of HE in 1990 where she took up a post in the Flexible Learning Unit based on the Alsager Campus.
Worked closely with ICI, Runcorn and the *Coverdale Organisation on Business/Education Partnerships and was “Coverdale trained” (funded by ICI, Cheshire LEA and Coverdale) to the highest level. Throughout the 1990s, she presented at many conferences and delivered vast numbers of workshops on Flexible Learning and Teaching Strategies and related areas.
She has taught Professional Studies on Secondary and Primary ITET courses since 1992 and also offered a variety of Professional Development Units (eg Managing Learning, Team Management, Developing Teams)
From September, 2002 became the Director of the Promethean Centre of Excellence based at Didsbury and carried out an evaluation of widespread use of Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) in an Edinburgh Secondary School for the Scottish Executive (2004).Currently undertaking MRes as part of route to PhD (research area: IWB pedagogy).
