Our trainers and course tutors (1)
Lynn Durrant, one of our CELTA (and CELTYL) tutors... Sometimes it's having a knowledgeable, caring tutor that makes the difference between one TEFL course and another. Meet the other course tutors below...
Our teacher-trainers are fully trained up professionals, with many years experience of ELT classroom teaching to all levels and types of student.
The training up procedure as set down by Cambridge is rigorous. Trainers are required to have had post-Diploma teaching experience, as well as other relevant experience: giving in-service training workshops, attending conferences, being informed through reading ELT journals and literature, etc. The process of training to be a Cambridge trainer itself involves observation of training sessions, observed practice training, feedback and reports written by a supervisor, and the production of a final portfolio, which is evaluated by a senior assessor from the University of Cambridge.
All this makes for very informed and authoritative trainers. However, it is also a personal commitment which counts: a good trainer has to be keen to continue developing themselves as trainers, has to respect their trainees and has to love their job to do it well.
And, as many past trainees have said, IH Barcelona trainers do a great job...
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Andrea Hasapi | Andrea teaches on both CELTA and CELT YL (Young Learner) courses.
She did her MA in Materials Development for ELT and has taught in Germany, Italy, Portugal and the UK, as well as Spain. |
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Caroline Grainger | Caroline teaches on CELTA courses. Before coming to Barcelona she taught in Croatia, Germany and Slovakia and has extensive experience teaching Business English as well as four years working as a DoS.
Caroline is currently taking a distance MA in TESOL with Manchester University. |
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David Clark | David is a tutor on both CELTA and DELTA courses. He did his MA TEFL at Reading and taught on training courses in Hong Kong, Romania, Russia, the Ukraine and in Britain before coming to Barcelona.
David is also the co-author of Destrezas Integradas, a resource book for Spanish teachers. |
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Francesca Pelli | Francesca is a CELTA course tutor who taught in London, Egypt and Johannesburg before coming to Barcelona.
Francesca also recently spent a month as a tutor on one of our CELTA courses in Mexico. She interrupted her sabbatical in Rome to teach on our CELTA course this January. We look forward to seeing her again in the summer. |
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Gabby Maguire | Gabby has been at International House since 1985, teaching everything from Beginners to Proficiency, apart from being a tutor on CELTA courses.
She also assesses course books before publication and writes materials for online English courses. Gabby is currently teaching and travelling in SE Asia. |
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Gerard McLoughlin | Gerard is a tutor on CELTA and DELTA courses and is also a CELTA assessor. He has taught and trained in many countries and initially set up the CELTA training centre in Playa del Carmen. He has an MA in ELT from Thames Valley University and is the Barcelona regional co-ordinator for TESOL Spain. He regularly gives talks at international and national conferences and is a co-author of iTalk, a course book for Bacchilerato. |
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Gill Holley | Gill has taught on our CELTA courses since 1994. She has also taught and trained in Italy, London and New York.
Gill is co-author of all 4 levels of the secondary course In Motion (Richmond Santillana). She is also one of the authors of Grammar Practice for Pre-Intermediate Students (Pearson Longman) and of the Framework series for adults (Richmond Santillana). |
| Lynn Durrant | Lynn (pictured, top of page) teaches on our CELTA and CELT YL courses and is currently also writing a four-book series for primary and secondary schools. She has taught in England, Spain and Portugal and has travelled all over the world as a trainer and assessor. |
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