DEUG de Lettres Classiques (Toulouse, Fr)
Licence de Lettres Modernes (Toulouse, Fr)
PGCE (Secondary) in French/Drama (Hull, UK)
Diploma in Spanish, distinction (Open University, UK)
MSc in e-learning, multimedia and consultancy (Sheffield Hallam, UK)

Profile

Martine has worked in the English education system since 1991. She has taught French to Diploma level (HE) and Spanish to A-level, across the age and ability range. She has worked in comprehensive schools and colleges in Sussex and Yorkshire, and alongside her main career in Secondary education she has also worked as tutor in the Primary phase, AE tutor and Associate Lecturer in HE. She has been Head of Languages at a Sixth Form College and then developed a portfolio of work by combining teaching, initial teacher education (Sheffield, OU, CILT) and consultancy work (CILT: ITTMFL website). After a year travelling around the world she obtained a post on her return as Educational Adviser at the University of Sheffield, with a focus on the evaluation of subject-based and cross-institution educational projects such as the internationalisation project. She now works at the University of Birmingham as Teaching Fellow in Education.

Research interests

She is part of the Language, Discourse and Society research group and her research interests broadly are: modern languages education; initial teacher training and CPD; learning cultures and learning environments; e-learning and distance education; autonomous learning; and educational change management.

Teaching and administration responsibilities

Martine works on the PGCE in Modern Languages (11-18 Sector). The course is 36 weeks long, with 12 weeks spent at the university and 24 weeks in schools, and holds 120 Masters-level credits. In her role as PGCE tutor, she plans and delivers sessions at the university, carries out supervisory visits while student teachers are on placement in schools, and supervises their assignment work (amongst many other tasks). She also contributes to the Primary Sector PGCE.

Publications (selection)

Martine is currently working on a book about ‘Impact Evaluation of Educational Change’ along with two other authors.

Teaching and learning resources:

Fêtes francophones (2001) Language Centre Publications

Portfolio of pupils’ assessed work (AT2 and AT4) (1996) - this resource was produced with a team of teachers/language advisers for Humberside Local Authority