Mrs Kathryn McCrorie

Teaching Fellow

Strathclyde Institute of Education

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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 Strathclyde.

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 Strathclyde Institute of Education. I teach the citizenship element of Learning for Sustainability at Master’s level. 

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’s 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’s (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.

 

Expertise & Capabilities

  • curricular knowledge of modern studies
  • planning, assessment and curriculum design
  • mentoring skills
  • practitioner enquiry
  • student resilience within HE

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Professional Activities

What knowledges for what sort of geography education in Scotland?
Organiser
20/11/2025
SERA Annual Conference
Participant
29/11/2024
British Educational Research Journal (Journal)
Peer reviewer
1/5/2024
SCDE Working Group LfS
Consultant
8/1/2024
IoE Podcast
Speaker
3/11/2023
Practitioner Enquiry
Consultant
1/9/2023

More professional activities

Projects

Strathclyde CfTE Hub
Wall, Kate (Principal Investigator) McCrorie, Kathryn (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
Do we develop thriving rural teachers? An analysis of the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Standards for Provisional Registration.
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
Teaching Social Studies: Exploring the Impact of a Transdisciplinary Approach towards Initial Teacher Education in Scotland.
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
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Collaborative Writing Groups
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
Climate Action Workshop
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
Climate Action Workshop
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

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Contact

Mrs Kathryn McCrorie
Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Education

Email: kathryn.mccrorie@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8376