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Georgina Newton

Georgina Newton - Associate Professor
Tel: 02476 574419
Room: WA 1.06
Email: G dot C dot Newton at warwick dot ac dot uk

Georgina has over 30 years of teaching experience and holds leadership responsibility for Partnership working within the Warwick and Schools Partnership. She teaches on the Secondary team and is a Teacher Retention Advocate.

She works with colleagues across the UK in the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Teaching Profession and is passionate about a high quality education service in the UK that sees teachers flourish from their first days of training to the day they retire.

Professional and Teaching Expertise
Georgina has taught Modern Foreign Languages and ICT. She has been a Middle Leader and has provided advisory roles within the Local Authority, acted as Examiner and Chair of Governors and holds a Master’s in Education. She is a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, where she is a member of the Ethical Commission and a Teacher Retention Advocate.

Academic Interests & Teaching & Learning Specialisms
Teacher Retention, Teacher Wellbeing, School Culture, Teacher Professional Identity, Modern Foreign Languages, Digital Literacy, Career Changers, Resilience.

Publications

  • Chapter author in Square Pegs - Inclusivity, compassion and fitting in by Fran Morgan and Ellie Costello (Independent Thinking Press, 2023)
  • Co-author and Co-editor of Re-imagining Education, Iris Press, 2021
  • Co-author of Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention by Ovenden-Hope and Passy (Eds) Routledge, 2020
  • Contributor to Every Child Included Journal (Achievement for All), November 2018
  • BERA Blog Nov 2016 https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/why-do-teachers-quit-and-what-could-help-them-to-stay
  • 2014 EDULEARN 14 Proceedings - conference paper - exploring trainee teachers’ ICT skills and their impact upon future PGCE course development G. Newton, A. Thethi, A. Boddison, 15 pages
  • 2014 EDULEARN 14 Proceedings – conference paper - online synchronous learning - findings from a study into how schools have supported their most able pupils in preparing for the Level 6 Key Stage 2 mathematics test Thethi, M. Baldwin, G. Newton, A. Boddison, 12 pages

 Conferences and Events

  • BERA – Book Seminar, Meet the Authors. June 2021
  • SIG Convenor for All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Teaching Profession (Wellbeing SIG), 2020- present
  • External Speaker on Ethical Leadership in Education for the Chartered College of Teaching 2019-21
  • Warwick and Schools Partnership Conference Convenor 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Warwick and Schools Partnership Conference – Workshops on Teacher Wellbeing, Engaging with Policy, Summer 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Warwick Research in Action Conference Workshops December 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Government events, February 2019
  • Women ED – Flexible working that works, Summer 2018
  • Guest panellist at Achievement for All Conference 2018
  • Warwick Excellence in Education Lectures – Why Teachers Quit, Spring 2018
  • All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Teaching Profession – Why Teachers Quit and what we can do to keep them, Autumn 2017
  • Research ED Seminar – Retaining the best, Summer 2017
  • Westminster Briefing- Teacher Recruitment and Retention Feb 2017
  • UCET/Ofsted best practice event – Accuracy in Assessment – Guest speaker 2016
  • Westminster Briefing Teacher Recruitment and Retention - Spring 2016
  • NAPTEC National Conference – Retaining the best - Spring 2016