Claire AM Guillon
A teacher, examiner, and researcher. Nearly two decades in education, ten of them abroad.
- Teaching since 2007, ten of those years in international schools abroad.
- Has taught in five countries.
- Knows the IB, British, American, and French systems.
- Teaches both Language Acquisition and Individuals and Societies.
- Works in French, English, and Italian.
Qualifications
- BA in English and French as a Foreign Language.
- French national teaching qualification for primary schools (CRPE).
- Master 1 Recherche in Renaissance studies, Université de Tours.
- NPQSL, the UK Department for Education's senior leadership qualification.
- Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education (Distinction).
- Appointed examiner for the International Baccalaureate (MYP Integrated Humanities).
What drives the work
I am drawn to a single question, and I follow it along three threads: the Renaissance ordering of knowledge, the wellbeing of teachers and students under pressure, and what it takes to learn in a language you do not yet command. The question is how a person orders what they know, and stays whole, when they are thrown into something they have not yet mastered.
It is the same question whether I am reading a sixteenth-century scholar holding a whole cosmos together, studying how a student carries the pressure of examinations, or thinking about a learner finding their footing in an unfamiliar language. My conviction, across all three, is that the capacity to think clearly and the capacity to remain well are not separate accomplishments but conditions of one another.
The three threads, and the sites that carry them, are set out on the work.
In contact
Open to scholarly exchange in English, French, and Italian.
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