Ms Flora Kisby
Primary ITE Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Primary Education and Primary English
Department of Teacher Education , School Of Education And Communities
Flora Kisby is a senior lecturer in Initial Teacher Education
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) French & Italian 1998
- PGCE 2000
- MA English Education 2013
- FHEA 2014
Areas Of Interest
Family representation and picture books, Inclusive practice, ideology, social justice.
OVERVIEW
Flora Kisby is a senior lecturer in Initial Teacher Education. She has worked in education for over twenty years, including eleven years as a Key Stage One and Two primary class teacher in the London Local Authorities of Southwark and Lambeth. She developed an English specialism early in her career when she was identified as a Leading Literacy Teacher and through this, supported others in their pedagogy.
Between 2012 and 2016 she was a senior lecturer in English Education at the University of Roehampton before returning to the primary sector in the role of Deputy Headteacher at Christ Church Primary, in Lambeth, where she was ECT and student teacher mentor, and English Lead with responsibility for Teaching and Learning and assessment across the curriculum.
She was delighted to join the Initial Teacher Education team at UEL in January 2022 as co-course leader for the BA Primary Education with QTS degree.
CURRENT RESEARCH
- July 2014, presenting a paper at the UKLA 50th International Conference: ‘Exploring Children’s Responses to Picturebook Depictions of Non-Traditional Families’
- Kisby, F (2013) 'Family Affairs: How do children from diverse families respond to picture book representations of non-traditional families' in Write4Children, 4:2 pp149-156
TEACHING
Module Leader for:
- ED4061 Children’s Rights and Children’s Worlds
- ED5072 Assessment in Primary Education
- ED5070 Curriculum Subject Knowledge: Professional Development
- ED5103 Mental Wealth: School Based Training