Grace Clifton

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Grace Clifton

Associate Head of School (Curriculum) at The Open University

20 May 2025

Dr Grace Clifton is Associate Head of School (Curriculum) in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport at the Open University. Before coming to the Open University, she worked as a Modern Languages teacher at secondary-aged level. She is a senior lecturer on the PGCE (Wales) programme and co-leads practice tutor provision.

Grace Clifton's contributions

It’s good to talk: What makes an effective professional conversation?

The role of the mentor has been strengthened in initial teacher education, as a way of helping the student teacher to bridge the theory and the practice of their teaching (Welsh Government, 2018;...

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