{"id":47654,"date":"2026-08-25T11:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avenor.ro\/?post_type=profesori&#038;p=47654"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:57:28","slug":"dylan-broomfield","status":"publish","type":"profesori","link":"https:\/\/www.avenor.ro\/en\/teachers\/dylan-broomfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Broomfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I grew up on a family farm and commercial plant nursery in Ireland, where decisions about soil, pests, disease and cultivation had immediate consequences. Botany gave me the concepts and methods to explain what I had observed. Teaching appealed to me because it involves making complex ideas clear, useful and open to examination. What I find most rewarding is seeing the point at which a student moves from repeating an explanation to understanding why it is true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hold a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:1 BSc in Botany from University College Dublin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I also hold <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qualified Teacher Status, a PGCE in Secondary Biology and a CELTA qualification<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. My degree provided broad training across the biological sciences, alongside chemistry and mathematics, with areas of study including genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, plant physiology, microbiology, ecology and bioinformatics. My final-year research project examined genes involved in sphingolipid biosynthesis in moss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I teach Biology at Avenor across Middle School, IGCSE and A Level. My professional background combines scientific research, secondary science teaching and more than six years of teaching international learners. As a research technician at the University of Nottingham, I worked in molecular laboratories and glasshouses, using DNA extraction, PCR, GISH, embryo rescue and plant propagation. I have taught in Ethiopia, Japan, Ireland and England, which has made me attentive to the role of language, prior knowledge and cultural context in learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the classroom, I explain new material in clear stages, model the reasoning involved and check understanding before students work independently.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I use questioning and mini whiteboards t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o locate the precise point at which a student\u2019s understanding has broken down. I plan around common misconceptions and return to the missing step when students can state an answer but cannot explain the mechanism behind it. I want lessons to be demanding, orderly and enjoyable, with students doing the intellectual work rather than merely receiving information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My interests include botany, synthetic biology, permaculture, languages, travel and metaphysics. I previously attended field excursions with the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. While living in Japan, I was a member of the Botanical Society of Japan and attended its national conference in Niigata. I am particularly interested in the assumptions about what exists and how things relate that underpin scientific hypotheses. Evidence can test a hypothesis, but interpreting the result requires those assumptions to be understood. Permaculture interests me because it applies close observation and systems thinking to the design and management of living systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avenor&#8217;s combination of academic ambition, international perspective and learning beyond examinations matches the way I teach. I aim to develop field and laboratory projects in local ecology and molecular biology. I also want to work with colleagues and external organisations so that students can engage with authentic methods and real problems. I want students to be able to ask precise questions, investigate them carefully and explain what the evidence establishes. I also look forward to contributing to a school community in which teachers learn from one another and students are encouraged to become increasingly independent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47653,"template":"","categorii_profesori":[459,458],"class_list":["post-47654","profesori","type-profesori","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorii_profesori-high-school","categorii_profesori-middle-school"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dylan Broomfield - Avenor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avenor.ro\/en\/teachers\/dylan-broomfield\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dylan Broomfield - Avenor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I grew up on a family farm and commercial plant nursery in Ireland, where decisions about soil, pests, disease and cultivation had immediate consequences. 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