Caroline Sadler

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Senior Lecturer
Faculty:
Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
School:
School of Education
Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Education and teaching
Courses taught:

Starting her teaching career in 2000, Caroline has substantial primary school teaching and headship experience within a range of schools in London and Kent. She has particular interest in supporting economically disadvantaged and ensuring SEND children receive the very best education. She is now part of the BEd Primary Education with QTS teaching team in Cambridge and is the leader for the Intensive Teaching and Practice (ITaP) and Wider Curriculum.

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Background

Caroline started her teaching career in London and gained many fantastic opportunities to develop both her subject knowledge and leadership skills. She has taught in large maintained primary schools and a preparatory school in London, plus she has also been a KS3 Geography teacher within the independent sector. She was a Headteacher for ten years in Kent and in this role led a junior school out of special measures, plus she was a Headteacher of both good and outstanding Ofsted rated schools too. Her headships were in economically deprived areas of Kent, which meant they had many disadvantaged children, and this resulted in her being a key speaker at the annual Kent County Council disadvantaged pupil conference due to the progress that this group of children made at her school. She also has a lot of experience of both teaching children with SEND having been a Headteacher of schools that had specialist resource provisions for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Hearing Impairments too, which is where she learnt British Sign Language.

Furthermore, Caroline is a trustee for a local Church of England Academy Trust.

Research interests
  • Teacher-Researcher Partnerships
  • Self-regulation and early writing skills
  • Developing children’s language through shared picture book experiences
  • Socially disadvantaged family learning programmes
  • Professional Learning Communities to improve SEND pupil outcomes
  • Currently studying for EdD at ARU
Teaching

Caroline currently teaches on the following BEd (QTS) modules

  • Key Professional Skills
  • Core Curriculum
  • Wider Curriculum

...and the following MA Education module:

  • Postgraduate Major Project
Qualifications
  • PGCert Mentoring for Initial Teacher Training
  • Counselling Level 3
  • National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
  • MA Geography in Education (UCL)
  • BA(Ed) Geography and the Environment (University of Reading)
Memberships, editorial boards
  • Associate Fellow of Royal Geographical Society
Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

Anglia Ruskin University QR Funding for a research project focusing upon ‘Intensive Teaching and Practice (ITaP) Co-production Knowledge Exchange with School Leaders, Senior Lecturer Practitioners and BEd Course Leaders.’ April 2024. £2504.25