Thomas Baker has been a teacher and teacher trainer for ten years in Chile. He is the President of TESOL Chile (2010-2012). He is Head of the English Department at Colegio Internacional SEK, Chile. He has published articles in “IH Journal” and “English Teaching Forum”. He makes free resources available on Slideshare. Two examples are “Unlocking Reading For All Students”, viewed over 4500 times, and “Teaching Debate in Chile”, viewed over 2000 times. He recently released a love story, “Looking For Catarina”, which was viewed five hundred times in its first two weeks. He writes a blog called Profesorbaker’s Blog. Feel free to follow him on Twitter (@profesortbaker).
Meghan Beler is a full-time teacher trainer for Oxford University Press and gives seminars and presentations on a variety of topics from young learners to adults. She has been working in the field of ELT for 9 years and has taught learners of all ages in Spain, Greece, and Turkey. She has been involved in a variety of ELT projects including CEFR syllabus mapping and exam alignment and her interests include learner autonomy, assessment and materials design. She is currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Kate Bell is a writer and researcher at EF Education First, working on developing and promoting online English learning worldwide. She is the author of the EF English Proficiency Index, a report which ranks countries by the average level of English competency amongst adults. Kate studied French and Linguistics at Brown University. In her free time she enjoys cooking, gardening, and agitating on environmental issues. Feel free to follow her on Twitter (@galactadon)
Janet Bianchini has been a teacher of EFL for over 30 years. She has taught students of all levels and all ages in Spain, Dresden in the former GDR, Greece, the Canary Islands and the UK. She now lives in Abruzzo, Italy, and spends her free time looking after her olive trees, writing reviews and learning about Web 2.0 technologies. She retains the same enthusiasm for teaching as she did when she started in 1979 as a result of her constant lifelong passion for learning. Janet’s Abruzzo Edublog helps her to connect with teachers from around the world. Feel free to follow her on Twitter (@janetbianchini).
Phil Bird teaches ESOL at Barking and Dagenham College in East London and is particularly interested in using technology in the language classroom and for staff development. Before teaching ESOL he taught English in Asunción, Paraguay and Córdoba, Argentina. As well as teaching, he is currently working on a project adapting British Council materials for use with ESOL learners and has started writing a blog called Classroom201X. He is also giving a presentation on using video recording in class at this year’s Natecla conference in Guildford. Feel free to follow him on Twitter (@pysproblem81).
William Bradridge has been in EFL since 1990, when he turned up at a language school in Mexico City looking for a job. He gained his Trinity DipTESOL at St George International in London in 1995 and and been a DoS at language schools in the UK and Portugal. In 1997 he helped to set up Global English, the accredited online TESOL course provider. Currently he spends most of his time writing course materials and helping train new EFL teachers. He also enjoys (?) running and is a Street Pastor in his hometown of Exeter, UK. Feel free to follow him on Twitter (@teflguru).
Diana Corcos is an experienced teacher and teacher trainer. She has held posts in both the Far East and the Middle East with International House and the British Council. She now works as a Celta teacher trainer in the UAE and as a Head of Department teaching English language at a local secondary school.
David Dodgson is a teacher to young learners at a private college in Ankara, Turkey. He is also a distance student on the University of Manchester’s MA in EdTech & TESOL programme. His blog, Reflections of a Teacher and Learner, covers a bit of everything – his experiences in the classroom, his studies, general thoughts on language teaching & education, technology for learning and much more. Feel free to follow him on Twitter (@DaveDodgson).
Evan Frendo is a freelance trainer, teacher trainer and author, and has been involved in Business English training and consulting since 1993. Currently based in Berlin, his work for various corporations and clients takes him regularly to different parts of Europe and Asia. He has published various books and articles over the years, including How to Teach Business English (Longman, 2005), and the Double Dealing series of coursebooks (Summertown, 2004-2006) with James Schofield. His most recent book is Working in Asia (Cornelsen, 2010) which he co-authored with Shuna Hsu. He also writes his own blog, English for the workplace. Feel free to follow him on Twitter (@evanfrendo).
Sarah Fudin currently works in community relations for the University of Southern California’s online Masters Degree in Teaching program, which provides students the opportunity to earn a TESOL certificate online. Sarah is a graduate of Lehigh University where she earned her B.S. in Business and Economics (graduating magna cum laude) while captaining the women’s lacrosse team her senior year. She went on to coach lacrosse and taught at a small school outside of London for about six months. It was in England that Sarah learned the importance and dedication it takes to become a teacher. Outside of work Sarah enjoys running (she is currently training for the NYC Marathon), reading and Pinkberry frozen yogurt. Feel free to follow her on Twitter (@USCTeacher) and read her posts on the MAT@USC Teaching Blog.
Michael Harrison teaches ESOL at Bromley College in South East London and is interested in using technology in the classroom. He has also taught in A Coruña and Pamplona in Spain. When not teaching, he writes a blog, called Mike Harrison’s Blog, learns a little Portuguese in his spare time, and thoroughly enjoys capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, music and dance. Feel free to follow him on Twitter (@harrisonmike).
Elaine Hirsch is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education and history to medicine and videogames. This makes it difficult to choose just one life path, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites and writing about all these things instead.
Marija Hladni is an English language teacher, translator and creative writer. She has been teaching for over 3 years, mostly PET and FCE levels. She has volunteered on several ELTA seminars and attended a number of British Council Courses for teacher improvement as well as TenT/CAT tools trainings and seminars. She has a BA in English Language and literature from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, and is currently working on her master’s thesis.
Li-Shih Huang, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Learning and Teaching Centre Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Victoria, Canada, has over a decade of language-teaching and curriculum-design experience. She was also the recipient of TESOL’s Award for Excellence in the Development of Pedagogical Materials. Her current research examines academic language-learning needs and outcomes assessment, corpus-aided discovery learning, and learner strategies in language-learning and language-testing contexts. Feel free to follow her on Twitter (@AppLingProf).
Erika Osváth is a freelance teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer and co-author of the European Language Award-winning 6-week eLearning programme for language exam preparation. Before becoming a freelance trainer, she had worked for International House for 16 years. Feel free to follw her on Twitter (@erikaosvath).
Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education performing research surrounding online universities and their various program offerings. She studied English and music at Elon University, developing interests in professional writing, rhetoric, poetry, and classical piano performance. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.
Jean Sciberras works full time at NSTS English Language Institute, the very first internationl English Language school in Malta, as Assistant DOS. She is a teacher, and teacher trainer on both local and Celta courses. She has an Honours Degree in English, Celta, Delta and a Post-graduate Certificate in Educational Management in TESOL from Aston University. She has worked in TEFL for 28 years, in Malta, Perugia and Milan. She is Team Leader and Oral Examiner for Cambridge Main Suite exams and often delivers seminars for MATEFL, the Maltese associaition of EFL teachers, of which she is an honorary member. She was also instrumental in organising national seminars and workshops in Malta led by world-renowned speakers like Mark Powell and Adrian Underhill.
Russell Stannard runs www.teachertrainingvideos.com which offers free training for teachers who want to incorporate technology into their teaching. In 2008 he won the Times Higher “Oustanding Innovation in Technology” award and in 2010 he won the British Council ELTons “Innovation” award. He has been working in ELT for 23 years and is currently a principal lecturer at the University of Westminster. Feel free to follow him on Twitter (@russell1955).
Samantha Stroh, a published author, has over 15 years of experience teaching, writing, and editing. She has a Master’s of Education and has taught ESL to adults for the government, private schools and universities. She now runs her own freelance writing/editing business, Perfect Pen Communications.
Shelly Sanchez Terrell is a technology teacher trainer, the VP of Educator Outreach for Parentella.com, and an English language teacher based in Germany. She is connected to over 10,000 educators worldwide and the co-organiser and co-creator of the award winning educational projects, Edchat and the Virtual Round Table ELT conference. Her presence in the educator community has been recognised by several notable entities, such as Converge Magazine, the 140 Conference, Mashable, English Central, Tefl.net, T/H/E JOURNAL, and ISTE. The New York Times learning blog has included her on its list of the top 78 educators to follow. Her language education blog, Teacher Reboot Camp Blog, is ranked as one of the top 50 best blogs for education leaders. Shelly has also made a presence with her free e-book, The 30 Goals Challenge. Feel free to follow her on Twitter (@ShellTerrell).
Jeremy Taylor is a freelance writer, teacher trainer, photographer and fire juggler. He has worked in Germany, Egypt, Czech Republic, Ireland and France and is now back in the Czech Republic, slowly renovating an old house and trying to tame the jungle around it. He has written 50 books, mostly for language learners, and is now passionate about ebooks – including a number of joke books for language learners. When he’s not writing, teaching or training, you will probably find him in his garden, growing an impressive quantity of bindweed. You can find out more about him on his website or feel free to follow him on Twitter (@MrWriteCzech).
Robin Walker is a freelance language teacher, teacher educator, and materials writer. He has been involved in ELT since moving to Spain in 1981. In this time, he worked for over 20 years in ESP as a lecturer in English at the University School of Tourism of Asturias. He has also collaborated extensively with many of Spain’s state teacher training centres, with the University of Oviedo, and with Oxford University Press España. Robin is co-author of Tourism 1 (Provision), Tourism 2 (Encounters) and Tourism3 (Management) in OUP’s Oxford English for Careers series. In 2010 he published Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua franca for the OUP teacher’s handbook series. A former Vice-president of TESOL-SPAIN, he is the Newsletter editor of the IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group.
David White works in the overlapping space between education, academia and technology. He co-manages Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL), an award winning elearning research and development group in the University of Oxford. Among other things, he specialises in research into what motivates learners to engage with the web based around his Digital Visitors & Digital Residents principle. David is an engaging speaker who has presented at numerous conferences and workshops. He is keen to see beyond the technology to the larger underlying trends that are emerging as society moves online. Visit the TALL blog for some of his recent thoughts, or feel free to follow him on Twitter (@daveowhite).
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