Ms Lynne Jones
Professional Development Officer
Scotland's National Centre for Languages (SCILT)
Personal statement
In August 2012, Lynne joined SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages based at the University of Strathclyde initially on secondment as a Professional Development Officer. Prior to this, she worked as a primary teacher at schools in West Lothian Council and Dundee City Council for over 13 years, with a whole school and cluster remits for the teaching and learning of modern languages throughout.
In her current role at SCILT, Lynne facilitates a variety of professional learning opportunities for pre-service and in-service primary teachers around early languages education policy and pedagogy. She has a particular interest in the use of film and visual texts to support the learning and teaching of languages and intercultural awareness. Lynne was Pedagogy Lead (2019-2022) and Pedagogy Tutor (2017-2023) onTeachers Learning to Teach Languages in Primary School (TeLT) programme, a blended programme combining language upskilling and primary languages pedagogy run in partnership between Open University and SCILT.
Lynne's current responsibilities include: member of Languages Week Scotland strategy team, a national week of celebration and advocacy; SCILT lead on Scotland's Languages Leadership Programme team; editorial team for the Scottish Languages Review online journal.
Lynne is a Critical Friend on the Educator's Leading Practice through Enquiry programme, run by Education Scotland's Professional Learning and Leadership (EdScotPLL) Team. Previously, between 2017 - 2023 she held various support roles on the Teacher Leadership and Educator Leadership Programmes also run by the EdScotPLL Team.
Lynne currently holds Professional Recognition: Supporting Teacher Learning from the General Teaching Council Scotland.
Qualifications
2015 Masters in Teaching (MTeach) from the University of Edinburgh
1998 PGCE (Primary Education) with Merit from the University of Paisley
1994 BA (Hons) 2i French and Spanish from the University of Stirling
Publications
- Dr Who? Researching as time travel : why and how an ECR undertook the same data (re)generation activities as the participants in their EdD study
- Jones Lynne
- IPDA England Lightning Conference (2023)
- Showcasing international collaboration in Scottish education
- Jones Lynne, Liddle Karen
- Internacionaliza a túa escola (2021)
- Going mobile : mediating participant interviews through creative and collaborative methods
- Jones Lynne
- Online International Doctoral Research Conference in Education (2020)
- A self-study into online teaching practice : using Coaching Dimensions as a metacognitive tool
- Jones Lynne
- Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) Annual Conference 2019 (2019)
- Enquiring into online teaching practice : using coaching dimensions as a metacognitive tool
- Jones Lynne
- (2019)
- The next stage of a journey? Lessons learned from Scotland
- Jones Lynne, Mackay Fhiona
- Teaching Languages Creatively (2018) (2018)
Research Interests
Research interests include learner voice, teacher learning and practitioner enquiry. Lynne's Masters dissertation explored the professional learning experiences of primary and secondary teachers of modern languages in one local authority in Scotland.
Presently working on her EdD thesis, Lynne is using collaborative digital, visual and mobile methods to explore how teacher leadership is understood and experienced in Scotland.
Professional Activities
- 'It brought me such joy': How an online community of practice supported practitioners to introduce creative, play-based pedagogies for teaching French in nursery and early primary settings
- Speaker
- 24/11/2023
- A Scottish perspective on gender inclusive languages education
- Speaker
- 5/12/2022
- Scottish Languages Review (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 2022
- SCEL Enquire
- Consultant
- 12/2017
- Scottish Languages Review (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2012
Projects
- ACTFL2021: American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Jones, Lynne (Principal Investigator)
- Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
- 19-Jan-2021 - 21-Jan-2021
- YouTube, Wordpress and Twitter: a digital recruitment strategy for research in education
- Jones, Lynne (Principal Investigator)
- Oral presentation at the Doctoral School's Multidisciplinary Symposium
- 03-Jan-2021 - 03-Jan-2021
- YouTube, Wordpress and Twitter: a digital recruitment strategy for qualitative research in educaiton
- Jones, Lynne (Principal Investigator)
- Recorded presentation. Doctoral School Multidisciplinary Symposium, University of Strathclyde, 1-4 June 2021
- 03-Jan-2021 - 03-Jan-2021
- The New Normal in Language Learning at Home, School and in our Communities
- Jones, Lynne (Fellow)
- Host of one of the five parallel seminars. Title: Building on lockdown experiences in primary language learning seminar. Supported group of primary teachers who were speakers. Contributed to panel discussion.
- 04-Jan-2020 - 04-Jan-2020
- Practitioner enquiry support in East Renfrewshire (Woodford Lodge School)
- Wall, Kate (Principal Investigator) Beck, Anna (Academic) Firth, Jonathan William (Academic) Moore, Iain (Academic) Jones, Lynne (Researcher)
- A sustained engagement to develop a whole school approach to practitioner enquiry.
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020
- American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
- Jones, Lynne (Principal Investigator)
- 23-Jan-2018 - 25-Jan-2018
Contact
Ms
Lynne
Jones
Professional Development Officer
Scotland's National Centre for Languages (SCILT)
Email: lynne.jones@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8173