Dr Gerry Czerniawski

National Teaching Fellow 2012 "Dr Czerniawski is an outstanding lecturer and is held in high regard by the students in his care who speak highly of his professional and supportive approach to their development as teachers". (External Examiner 2011) Dr Gerry Czerniawski passionately worked in the multi-cultural environment in the London Borough of Newham for ten years teaching humanities, sociology and business studies in the secondary and post-sixteen sectors. His current professional practice as a teacher educator builds on a background of in-service training for teachers, a former role as a programme manager for staff development in an inner-city sixth form college in London, and an author of books and academic journals supporting the continuing professional development of teachers. In the summer of 2010 he became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and was awarded a University of East London (UEL) Teaching Fellowship in 2011. This was in recognition for the work he has done providing opportunities to promote teacher education, student learning and student voice in local, national and international academic/practitioner arenas. In recognition of the responsibilities of higher education in the preparation of a new generation of teachers, Gerry consistently draws on the constructivist pedagogies that informed his own training as a secondary school teacher. His research-informed reflective teaching has come about through constant engagement with educational theory and the variety of ways in which this can operate within the higher education sector. Gerry's PhD, recently published, was an international comparative study of the development of newly qualified teachers. His books and teaching resources draw on his own research and research informed practice along with documented experience as an outstanding teacher in schools and colleges. Gerry's championing of the 'student voice' and its place as an invaluable tool in teaching and learning and the professional development of teachers has led to national and international conference presentations, peer reviewed articles, a student voice hand book and a report for the HEA.