Sinead McCauley Lambe

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Prior to her move to initial teacher education, Sinéad taught for eleven years in St. Vincent’s Infant Boys’ school in North William Street. Here, Sinéad spent 6 years in the mainstream classroom, before moving into the role of SET working with children with a wide range of diverse and specific learning needs.  It was this work that ignited Sinéad’s interest in educational disadvantage, motor development, playful learning and early intervention. Sinéad completed her Masters in Educational Disadvantage in 2011 in Dublin City University, and most recently, her Doctoral research in 2021. Her research interests include infant motor development, educational disadvantage and emergent handwriting development.

Sinéad is the author of Move Write - A Whole-body Sensorimotor Approach to Handwriting (2023), and Move Write Book A (Cursive and Print) 2024. The Move Write programme is a sensorimotor approach to developing the emergent handwriting skills of infant children that emerged from Sinéad's doctoral thesis. The programme aims to develop key gross motor, fine motor and visual perceptual skills that are foundational in developing proficient handwriting skills. Providing learners with rich, sensory experiences is central to the programme, which adopts a playful approach blended with explicit instruction.

Sinéad enjoys writing a personal, educational blog which reflects her own learning across contexts. 

  

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 Lynch, A., Haals-Brosnan, M., McCauley-Lambe, S., Colum, M., Farrelly, M., Horn, C., McDaid, R., Minnock, M., Ní Dhuinn, M. and O'Laighin., F. (2023) 'Exploring the Experiences & Perspectives of Students Completing Educational Placement during the COVID-19 Pandemic'. AISHE-J: THE ALL IRELAND JOURNAL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 15 (Summer 2023):1-18. [Link] [DOI]

Teaching Resource

Year Publication
2023 (2023) Move Write - A Whole-body Sensorimotor Approach to Handwriting. Business Park Rd, Lisnenan, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal: TEACH [DOI]
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Committees

Committee Function From / To
Literacy Association of Ireland 02/11/2020 - 01/11/2023

Employment

Employer Position From / To
Marino Institute of Education Assistant Lecturer in Education 19/08/2019 - 31/08/2022

Other Activities

Description
Sinéad has been involved in hosting a number of Webinars in conjunction with the Education Centres to support the Continuous Professional Development of Preschool and Primary teachers, as well as SNA's. Webinars have been delivered in the areas of: Playful Learning, Aistear in the Infant Classroom, Motor Development, Emergent Handwriting, Developing Playful Practitioners, Using Puppets to Support Oral Language. Sinéad also supports a number of schools in the Dublin area by providing in-service in the area of Emergent Handwriting and Motor Development. - St Vincent's Infant Boy's School, North William Street - St Vincent's Girls School, North William Street - Scoil an Duinnínigh, Swords - St Catherine's Infant School, Ratoath Road

Media

Title Year Type Authors
Junior infants from poorer areas more likely to lack key skills 2019 Newspaper article (online) Sinéad Lambe
A Space for Reflection 2023 Other Sinéad McCauley Lambe
Move Write! A Whole-body Sensorimotor Approach to Handwriting 2023 Podcast Sinéad McCauley Lambe
Using Aistear to support students with additional learning needs 2022 Podcast Sinéad McCauley Lambe
Lack of green spaces to play in – children from disadvantaged backgrounds are seeing chances of succeeding at school hampered 2023 Newspaper article (Print) Sinéad McCauley Lambe

Research Interests

Emergent Handwriting Development, Motor Development, Early Childhood Education Educational Disadvantage, Playful Learning  

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2024 SI401
2024 SI902A
2023 SI205