cronins

DIRECTOR OF ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

Sue Cronin is currently Director Accreditation and Quality Assurance for the School of Education. She has spent more than 25 years in education holding a variety of posts in schools and in the university including Head of Teacher Education and Director of Quality and Teacher Development. Most recently her work involves leading on mentoring and coaching teaching and research, covering the full range of professional career stages from beginning teachers to school leaders.  Sue's current research interests and publications are focused on aspects of Teacher Education, in particular, mentoring , school leadership and partnership. This aligns with her main work activities which include supporting schools and leaders in the North West to provide quality education, largely through their involvement with university Teacher Educators and ITE.  

Sue has a background of secondary mathematics teaching in a variety of Liverpool schools before joining the Liverpool advisory team. She originally taught on a variety of undergraduate modules including Teaching Assistants on Foundation degree courses. She then moved on to PGCE programmes, developing masters mathematics education modules and CPD projects such as MaST  (Primary Mathematics specialist teachers ) and SKE course for non specialist mathematics teachers.  More recently Sue's teaching has been focused on masters and PD provision for school leaders.