Mrs Kathryn McCrorie
Teaching Fellow
欧美高清 Institute of Education
Personal statement
Biography
I was appointed Teaching Associate in the School of Education in October 2019 after 25 years of teaching social subjects in Fife. I had been Faculty Head of a large department and the regional coordinator for modern studies for over a decade. My wider experience included being a modern studies question setter for the SQA since 2000 and as the Subject Implementation Manager for modern studies alongside my university role. This enabled me to support students in the ITE programme with current policy and practice. I am able to draw on a wide network of expert colleagues such as Principal Assessors to work with students.
My knowledge of modern studies teaching is routinely used to support GTCS colleagues in reviewing those seeking modern studies certification.
I value strong relationships across all aspects of my work. I am a mentor for new colleagues and seek to support students throughout their studies at 欧美高清.
Teaching Interests
I am the course tutor for PGDE modern studies and am involved in courses relating to this within both primary and secondary in the 欧美高清 Institute of Education. I teach the citizenship element of Learning for Sustainability at Master鈥檚 level.听
A key teaching interest is practitioner enquiry with ITE students and working to ensure that this is valued and reflected within their ITE year. I have been the co-leader of the Professional Learning Through Enquiry course since May 2022.
Research Interests
I have completed several Master鈥檚 level courses around inclusion and supporting teacher learning. The latter resulted in post-graduate certification from the GTCS. I embarked on an EdD is September 2022 following the Supporting Teacher Learning pathway. The area of focus is on mentoring relationships within the ITE. Based on this, I have been asked to contribute a chapter to a book on early researchers being edited by Deirdre Harvey at St Agatha鈥檚 (due late 2024).
I am a member of a Collaborative Writing Group (CWG) established as part of a University wide programme exploring the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL). We have published a literature review and are currently researching student conceptions of resilience.
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Expertise & Capabilities
- curricular knowledge of modern studies
- planning, assessment and curriculum design
- mentoring skills
- practitioner enquiry
- student resilience within HE
Publications
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- Scottish Education Research Association Annual Conference 2025 (2025)
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- Journal of Curriculum Studies , pp. 1-19 (2025)
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- SERA Conference (2024)
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- 12th Annual Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) (2024)
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- Sustainable Teacher Education Empowering Artic Futures (2024)
Professional Activities
- Organiser
- 20/11/2025
- Participant
- 29/11/2024
- Peer reviewer
- 1/5/2024
- Consultant
- 8/1/2024
- Speaker
- 3/11/2023
- Consultant
- 1/9/2023
Projects
- Wall, Kate (Principal Investigator) McCrorie, Kathryn (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- Quirke, William (Principal Investigator) McCrorie, Kathryn (Co-investigator)
- Using a framework that specifies the characteristics and attributes of thriving rural teachers, the researchers are conducting an audit of the GTCS Standards for Provisional Registration and assessing the extent to which urban-based Initial Teacher Education supports the development of thriving rural early career teachers.
- 03-Jan-2025
- Quirke, William (Principal Investigator) McCrorie, Kathryn (Co-investigator) Proctor, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- This project researches the impact of a transdisciplinary approach towards the delivery of social studies Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in Scotland. The influence of this approach on the confidence level of students is explored in addition to its impact on their first school placement experience in a Scottish secondary school.
- 08-Jan-2024 - 05-Jan-2024
- Morrissey, Sean (Principal Investigator) Hasty, William (Principal Investigator) McCool, Susan (Principal Investigator) Strachan, Scott (Principal Investigator) Moore, Iain (Principal Investigator) Williams, Manuela (Principal Investigator) Faulkner, Suzanne (Principal Investigator) McCrorie, Kathryn (Principal Investigator) Cochrane, Neil (Principal Investigator) Carlysle-Davies, Felicity (Principal Investigator)
- Scholarship of Teaching Collaborative Writing Groups (2023-26) is a facilitated staff development programme that supports staff to take their next steps in scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and undertake collaborative scholarship projects.
Collaborative writing groups will be organised around a theme. Each group will have a group leader and will work together for an extended period to produce scholarship outputs. - 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2026
- Quirke, William (Principal Investigator) McCrorie, Kathryn (Principal Investigator) Proctor, Sarah (Principal Investigator)
- A Climate Freak Climate Action Workshop held for PGDE Geography, History and Modern Studies students
- 18-Jan-2023 - 18-Jan-2023
- McCrorie, Kathryn (Co-investigator) Quirke, William (Co-investigator) Proctor, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- Developing the Climate Fresk training to use with BA Primary teaching students and then to develop further with PGDE social studies students.
- 10-Jan-2022
Contact
Mrs
Kathryn
McCrorie
Teaching Fellow
欧美高清 Institute of Education
Email: kathryn.mccrorie@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8376