We are immensely proud to bring you a roster of some of the best ELT professionals from around the world. Here they are, in all their glory!
Claudia Rey is a teacher trainer, conference speaker and ELT consultant who specializes in the areas of Teaching Young Learners, CLIL for Primary and Secondary Teachers, Assessment, and Teaching English through Literature.
Claudia is the course leader of NILE’s “Teaching Young Learners online course and the designer of the “Learning Outside the Classroom” video series (TeachingEnglish/British Council)
Read about Claudia's session: Flying Colours: Embedding Assessment into the Learning Process
Pere Cortiella Ibàñez studied at the University of Edinburgh, has a master’s degree on Education, the Cambridge Delta Diploma, speaks 4 languages and has been training teachers for 10 years. He has taught English to children, teens and adults for over 20 years specializing in young learners in several different schools in the Barcelona area. He is the coordinator for Young Learners in Fundació CIC, runs many teacher training courses for the Catalan Government and has also co-authored 8 books for primary ESL students. He is passionate about education and is an enthusiastic trainer.
Read about Pere Cortiella's session: Personalised Exam Preparation Techniques for YLs
Sarah Hillyard has been teacher and coordinator at pre-primary level for many years and is now ELT academic consultant for bilingual schools in Argentina. She is a NILE Online tutor, webinar presenter and gives talks at conferences and schools. She is a freelance teacher trainer, course developer, author, and writer of articles and blogposts.
Read about Sarah's session: Respect, Inclusion and Empathy to Enhance Group Learning
Anna Parr-Modrzejewska is a TEFL university lecturer specialising in Young Learners education, coursebooks author and teacher trainer. Her qualifications include a PhD in linguistics, MA in English, BA in Young Learners Pedagogy and MA in Pedagogical Therapy.
Read about Anna's session: Write the Right way: Unlock Grammar Through Writing
Ross McGill is a qualified teacher who, across three decades, has worked in some of the most challenging secondary schools in London as a design technology teacher, middle leader and as a deputy headteacher. He is regularly asked to reflect on educational developments in multiple publications about education policy, including The Guardian and The Telegraph newspapers and through his website, advocates teaching and supports thousands worldwide.
Read about Ross's session: Learning Habits and Why They Matter
Sea Steele and Sarah Smith are the co-founders and directors of eltonix, an educational consultancy focused on teacher development and student empowerment. They are particularly interested in developing critical and creative thinking, exploring social justice themes in the classroom, and supporting students who are gender diverse, or have special educational needs and disabilities, in particular, ADHD.
Sarah (she/her) and Sea (they/them) have worked as teachers and teacher educators in a number of countries. Sarah is currently based in Greece and Sea is based in Portugal.
To find out more, visit www.eltonix.com
Read about Sea's and Sarah's session: Being Curious about Cultures through Project Work