Ms Clare Mouat
Teaching Fellow
Education
Personal statement
After graduating with an Honours Degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Glasgow, Clare completed a PGCE specialising in early years education at the University of Worcester.
Returning to Scotland in the early 1990s, she dedicated over 30 years to primary education, with a particular focus on literacy and language teaching.
In 2015, Clare joined the University of Strathclyde as a Professional Development Officer at SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages. In this role, she contributed to the research, design, and delivery of a wide range of professional learning opportunities for teachers at various stages of their careers. This included close collaboration with Education Scotland on the national 1+2 Language Leadership Programme (1+2 LLP) and she was part of the SCILT team involved in the creation and delivery of the pedagogy element of Teachers Learning to Teach Languages (TELT), a blended professional learning programme delivered in partnership with the Open University.
Clare also spearheaded initiatives to engage parents, families, and the wider community in language learning. By working with diverse organisations representing parents and carers, she promoted the benefits of intergenerational language learning for Scotland’s young people.
Since 2019, Clare has been a Teaching Fellow at the Strathclyde Institute of Education, where she leads the BA Childhood Practice programme and contributes to teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Prize And Awards
- International Proposal Development Funding
- Recipient
- 1/2/2024
- GTCS Accredited Professional Recognition
- Recipient
- 1/9/2018
- 1+2 LLP Programme (revised) - GTC Scotland Excellence in Professional Learning Awards 2018
- Recipient
- 9/2018
- Herald Higher Education Awards nominee
- Recipient
- 28/6/2018
- 1+2 LLP Programme - GTC SCOTLAND Excellence in Professional Learning Awards 2017
- Recipient
- 21/9/2017
Qualifications
1990 PGCE (Early Years Education) from the University of Worcester
1988 MA (Hons) in Hispanic Studies from the University of Glasgow
Publications
- Playing with climate fresk : an interdisciplinary project to promote French and education for sustainable development (ESD)
- Jollet Noemie, Collins Robert, Mouat Clare
- Scottish Languages Review Vol Spring 2025, pp. 13-22 (2025)
- Discovering Climate Fresk : a scalable peer-to-peer facilitator model
- Collins Robert, Jollet Noemie, Mouat Clare
- (2023)
Research Interests
Currently pursuing a Doctorate of Education (EdD), Clare's research aims to explore the experiences of early career primary teachers in parental engagement practices in order to identify areas for future consideration to support future cohorts of early career teachers.
Professional Activities
- "Share the Love" - An arts solidarity event for the people of Turkiye and Syria
- Organiser
- 14/2/2023
- The Scottish Association for Language Teaching (SALT) Conference - 2024
- Speaker
- 2/11/2024
- The future of French en Ecosse
- Speaker
- 24/6/2024
- Djurre Fijen
- Host
- 13/11/2023
- Akke de Witte
- Host
- 13/11/2023
- Target Language Phonics Bootcamp
- Speaker
- 28/10/2023
Projects
- Building socially sustainable societies through the linguistic and cultural integration of immigrants
- De Britos, Angela (Principal Investigator) Mouat, Clare (Principal Investigator)
- The Nordic countries share the ambition of building socially sustainable societies, and to achieve this goal, the inclusion of newcomers – and hence the successful teaching of the Nordic languages as second languages – is a key component. The Nordic welfare societies share several unique traits regarding societal and educational structures, therefore sharing and building knowledge about the Nordic languages as second languages is highly relevant. This project brings together researchers and teacher educators from across the Nordic region who will share ongoing research and development projects from the field of second language teaching and learning in the Nordic countries through on-line seminars and a network meetings. The meetings and seminars will address the following themes: Current issues in second language pedagogies i.e. technology, translanguaging, grammar; the Nordic languages as second languages across the Nordics; the status of the Nordic languages and language policies across the Nordics; the status of minority languages/family languages; innovation in second language teaching and issues of inclusion of second language learners. The network will focus on a comparative Nordic perspective, and the outcomes will include an extensive overview of insights from current research in the Nordic languages as second languages and the different educational models and practices in use in the participating countries. The outcomes will be highly relevant for both teacher educators and their students and will be made accessible to both educators and students, but also constitute a resource for further research and network building both for researchers within and beyond the network.
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Erasmus+ Project: Integrating primary and pre-school virtual exchange projects into language teacher education
- De Britos, Angela (Co-investigator) Birnie, Inge (Principal Investigator) Mouat, Clare (Co-investigator)
- Ongoing consultancy for the INVITED project (integrating primary and pre-school virtual exchange projects into language teacher education) seeks to promote the use of virtual exchange (VE) projects in primary and pre-school language education and to develop teachers' competences regarding VE by integrating VE projects with young learners into pre- and in-service language teacher education. Project members are teacher educators from five different universities in Europe in cooperation with local schools.
Outputs:
The project is going to implement a survey on teachers´ experiences with VE in pre-school and primary language education to find out about teachers´ needs.
A community for teachers interested in VE is created in the form of an e-twinning group to exchange experiences and materials and display good practice.
A teacher education module that includes the implementation of a VE project in a local school is developed, adapted for a professional development course and made available on the ESEC platform.
The project provides opportunities for pre- and in-service teachers to connect through the online community and offers support for their VE projects. It develops a teacher education module that will be part of the partners´ curricula and made available as an online training course. These outcomes will help promote the use of VE in young learner language education, develop teachers´ competences regarding VE and foster children´s and teachers´ cultural, linguistic and digital competences. - 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2026
- Generation Global: Multilingualism and intercultural skills for a dual-competency workforce of the future
- Hare, Paul (Principal Investigator) Bell, Sheena (Co-investigator) De Britos, Angela (Co-investigator) Mouat, Clare (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2021