Faculty and Staff
TEFL course trainers
John Magne-Erlandsen
John leads the Madrid training team. He has 18 years of EFL teaching experience, is a state certified high school teacher and was a university teacher training
professor for 10 years.
He holds two Bachelors Degree in Languages (English, German and the Nordic languages) from the University of Tromsoe in Norway. His degrees focus on the foundations of language namely: grammar, literature and history. He has a Masters Degree in Pedagogy from the University of Oslo in Norway where he concentrated on pedagogical theories, current concepts and means of information dissemination in the media. He also has a Masters Degree in the Didactics of Teaching Languages from The Teachers Training School of Oslo where the "communicative competence" theory was analysed in detail, giving light to how different nationalities can adapt most effectively to foreign language learning.
He has been actively giving teacher training lectures and has been running UNICEF summer camps for 11 year olds from all over the world. He has traveled extensively in Western Europe, the USA, Mexico, China and Egypt giving him that all-important sense of cultural understanding, a vital asset in the world of EFL teaching.
Beth Bedford
Beth
leads the Buenos Aires training team. She has been in the EFL sector since 1982 and she has a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Beth has been involved in the design, development and teaching of English language
programmes for a variety of sectors such as: education, insurance, banking, urban development, shipping and medical research.
Beth has also been actively working as a teacher trainer and trainer for Cambridge and BEC examinations at one point teaching classes to as many as 40 Shona (African dialect) speakers who needed to learn English in order to sit their Cambridge examinations.
Beth has lived, worked and studied in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Singapore and Argentina. She brings to the EBC TEFL Certificate programme not only her wealth of EFL teaching and learning practices but also an in-depth understanding of how different cultures can work together in an educational setting.
Barbara Simpson
Barbara
has been a teacher for more years than she'd like to admit, but
those years have given Barbara a wide range and depth of teaching
experience and skills.
Barbara ran an in-house English programme for Japanese exchange
students in Canada.
In addition to teaching, Barbara has also worked in the private
sector. This experience has given her a solid foundation of
knowledge for Business English training.
Barbara has excellent interpersonal skills, she is a good communicator and a good listener. She works hard
and pays attention to detail, she expects the same from her students.
Barbara also has a strong interest in other cultures and countries
and will do everything she can to help her students reach their
goals.
Gladys Sanchez
Gladys has been
in the EFL sector for
the last 10 years. She has a BA in teaching and is a state certified primary school
teacher. As well as being a TEFL trainer, Gladys is also in
charge of training English teachers for corporate management courses
run by our sister company, EBC y Asociados Idiomas.
Her main areas of specialisation are : Corporate
Training , Business English and Educating Primary School Children in
English. Gladys has been teaching corporate clients of EBC in
diverse sectors ranging from : Banking, Finance, Logistics,
Engineering, Retail, Marketing, Advertising and Education.
In
relation to her EFL career, Gladys has lived, worked and traveled in
Argentina, Spain, the United States and Europe. Gladys brings to the
EBC TEFL Certificate programme her in-depth understanding of
learning practices gained from years of EFL teaching all over the
world.
Claudia Rodriguez
Claudia has been in the EFL
sector for the last 14 years, she has a Bachelor's Degree in
Psychology and a Master's Degree in Cognitive Development. The
concentration of her Masters Degree was on teacher training and the
development of academic syllabuses, her thesis having a strong focus on
strategies that led to fluency development in EFL students. She has
taught in Canada, Mexico and Spain.
In Mexico she was an Academic
Director, in charge of recruitment, training and supervision of EFL
teachers and the development of academic programs and materials. She
is the co-author of 5 EFL student workbooks and audio tapes and
she has been a speaker to academic coordinators and counselors in
various pedagogical seminars and workshops.
Claudia has lived in
Canada, the USA, Mexico and Spain thus bringing to the EBC International TEFL Certificate programme not only her vast
amount of EFL know-how and experience but also her in-depth
understanding of how different cultures can work together successfully.
Ken Jones
Ken is the Executive Director of the Cusco training centre. Ken has dual-citizenship in Peru and the U.S. Born and raised in upstate New York and southern Louisiana, Ken has made Peru and Costa Rica his homes for more than 4 years.
He speaks English and Spanish fluently, and has more than 15 years of experience living and working in various parts of the world - including Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Ken has a Masters Degree in Organizational Development, an MBA in International Business and is TESOL certified.
Mark Deming
Mark is the Cusco training centre's primary TESOL TEFL trainer. Mark graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's in Political Science and Latin American Studies.
He also completed a 1,000 hour post-graduate course in TESOL at Seattle Pacific University. Mark has traveled and taught in Spain, Central America, and South America.
Mark is fluent in both English and Spanish and also speaks conversational French.
Tom Kearin
Tom was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tom is an ex-corporate Vice President turned ESOL EFL teacher. He has more than 18 years of experience in technology companies and consulting.
Tom has traveled most of the world and has spent the majority of his time in South America and Europe.
Tom has a Bachelor's in Accounting, an MBA in Finance, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the states of Massachusetts and Nevada, and he's also TEFL certified.
