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.
- Directs Model United Nations for the middle and high school.
- Works in French, English, and Italian.
Qualifications
- BA in English and French as a Foreign Language.
- French national teaching qualification (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).
- Studying for a Master in the Sciences of Education and Formation, Université de Caen Normandie.
- Appointed examiner for the International Baccalaureate (MYP and DP Integrated Humanities).
What drives the work
I am drawn to a single question, and I have followed it across two fields that are not usually held together: the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, and the study of how people learn and stay well under pressure. The question is how human beings build the inner architecture that lets them think clearly, work with discipline, and remain whole when the demands are high.
It is the same question whether I am reading a sixteenth-century scholar ordering the cosmos against a fracturing world, or studying how a student today assembles a method against the pressure of examinations. My conviction, across both, is that the capacity to think and the capacity to remain well are not separate accomplishments but conditions of one another.
I write and research under the name Digited Atelier, where my essays and a forthcoming podcast bring this work into a more accessible register.
In contact
Open to scholarly exchange in English, French, and Italian.
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