Jennifer was born in California and grew up in New York. Her teaching career started when she first arrived in Hamburg, Germany back in 1986, where she taught English in small private schools. In 1988, she returned to New York, where she also taught English and did some teacher training.… read more >
The editor is dead! Long live the editor! Hello everybody, Kit here, (ELTABBer-of-the-Month editor for the past while)… This, I’m afraid, will be my last interview! I have been doing these interviews for at least as long as I can remember now (a year? 18 months? This decade has had… read more >
This month, we interviewed a member with a broad range of teaching experience and qualifications - David Bowskill. Read on to find out more! David is originally from Portsmouth, England. He taught German at secondary level in the UK for some years before settling in Germany, where he began teaching… read more >
Originally from Yorkshire, Mark travelled for a period before moving to Bavaria, where he lived for many years. He enjoyed the better summers and the wonderful outdoor life there, and the freedom of simply being in a foreign country. After spending many years back in the UK, the double trouble… read more >
Daniel Plumridge is relatively new to Berlin, having only moved here in November 2019; he has a BA in French and Spanish and has honed his language skills through multilingual customer-service jobs. Now he's shifting his career focus into our wonderful world of English Teaching! Let's find out more... … read more >
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-johnston-88700215/ Contact: --- Eleanor Johnston is an English-for-specific-purposes (ESP) teacher at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde - however, she has also taught French and German to secondary-school pupils, does (and continues to do) translation work, and even once led a debating team to national glory. Here are… read more >
Due to [NOTE TO SELF - think of a good excuse here before publication], the ELTABBer-of-the-Month interview for October is in a fight-to-the-death with its deadline. To help it out, I have skipped the normal time-consuming procedure of posting a biography and call for questions on the ELTABB forums. Here… read more >
We're revisiting a past ELTABBer-of-the-Month for August/September. Hailing from Alabama, USA, and having taught English for a range of purposes across the world, Sarah has more to stories to tell! Since her first interview, Sarah has been ELTABB chair, worked with the Berlin Zoo and weathered the worldwide changes that… read more >
Contact: – https://www.businessenglischkurse.com/, https://specialist-language.com/ and https://www.winetastrs.com/ Website: – What first drew you to English teaching? I had learnt French and German in-company when I was working in reinsurance, and found the training rather unsatisfactory. I needed help with things like preparing management reports, understanding the trade press and… read more >
Thomas Kortsmit is a newly-qualified English teacher! With a background in the financial sector, he wanted to do something that utilised his love of languages and allowed him to take a step back from the spreadsheets. He's now having a short stay in Berlin before jetting off to Japan to… read more >
