Contact: – alexandra.patent@gmail.com Phew! It's hard to write a brief biography for Alexandra - she completed a BA in Classics in 2009, including two semesters in Italy, which she enjoyed so much she decided to move there. To this end, she did a CELTA, in Milan in 2010, then taught… read more >
Contact: info@christopherchandler.de Website: www.christopherchandler.de Christopher Chandler is our new Chair of the Board - this is actually his second time as ELTABBer of the Month, but we thought it would be interesting to see what's changed since then! He moved here in 2011 and has been a freelance English… read more >
Contact: – ecameronw@gmail.com Website: – https://www.leibniz-zas.de/en/people/details/wilson-cameron/cameron-wilson Cameron's biography: I began my teaching career as a ‘day job’ when I was working as puppeteer and theater designer in NYC, and ended up finding my true calling in the classroom. After teaching English for adult immigrants in Brooklyn not-for-profits for several years,… read more >
Contact: sbartholomeusz1@gmail.com Suzan Bartholomeusz has over fifteen years of teaching experience - she has lived in Canada, Germany, the UK and Turkey, speaks English, French and German, has a BA in Marketing and an MA in the English Language and is a keen believer in 'learning by doing'... Our… read more >
Contact: ped@dbl-berlin.de, berlin@cavaisimo.com Website: www.dbl-berlin.de You first visited Germany in 1979/80 and moved to Berlin in 1984. I asked our previous interviewee, Anthony Gaughan, what changes he had seen in the country since moving here twenty years ago. Can you tell us what has remained the same? (Dear Readers, I… read more >
Contact: - anthony@teachertrainingunplugged.comWebsite: - http://teachertrainingunplugged.com What has been a highlight of your career?I’ll start with an immodest one: having Jim Scrivener come up to tell me that a talk I’d given had been “quite possibly the best talk [he’d] ever seen”, but the real highlights would have to be getting… read more >
Why are you a language teacher? Although I enjoyed playing ‘teacher’ as a young child, it is not something I really imagined myself becoming as an adult. However, when I first moved to Berlin many years ago, I realised that teaching English was a viable way of making a living… read more >
You have worked on documentary film producing - what aspects were you responsible for, and have you brought anything from this field into your English teaching? I mainly worked as a producer/director on non-fiction TV series, which meant producing an episode from start to finish: researching stories and characters, going… read more >
Contact:Allia Sadeghipour (allia.sadeghipour@gmail.com) I'm always looking for collaborative opportunities and more work 😉 Website: I don’t have one for my teaching (I will soon! I promise!), but I do for my workshops and seminars (https://awerfjil.com/poetry-performances/) Questions: Could you tell us more about how your struggles with English in school led… read more >
What do you enjoy most about teaching?I love the never ending variety and the ability to reinvent myself when I get bored or fed up. The fact that there is always something to learn about the students or how to teach is just great.What has been your proudest or most… read more >
