June 8th, 19:00 – 21:00 local time Bucharest, Romania
IH Bucharest Teacher Training Centre has the pleasure to invite you to attend an online event dedicated to discovering the benefits of gaining a CELTA qualification, as well as meeting the tutors of our next available CELTA course.
“CELTA: Ignite Your Passion for Teaching Excellence” will take place on Zoom, on June 8th, 2023, from 7pm to 9 pm Bucharest time. The programme includes:
- An overview of CELTA and its benefits for graduates
- A live interview with a panel of CELTA graduates at IH Bucharest
- Practical workshops delivered by our excellent course tutors
- A chance to have your questions answered in a guided panel discussion with our tutors and the Head of Teacher Training at IH Bucharest
So come and meet us on June 8th and take the first step towards teaching excellence!
Robert Martínez started his English-teaching career in 1994 at Centro Colombo Americano from Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia). He gained tremendous TEFL experience throughout the 1990s with various language schools based in Turin (Italy), as well as the British Council in Cairo (Egypt). Between 1999 and 2001 he gained both his CELTA and his DELTA qualifications at the British Council in Milan (Italy). He became Director of Studies in 2005 at Anderson House Bergamo (Italy) and Managing Director at International House (IH) Palma de Mallorca in 2006, when he also started running CELTA courses as Assistant Tutor. Since then he has been a CELTA tutor with prestigious schools such as British Council Singapore and Giga IH Catania (Italy). Robert is also a Cambridge-certified YLE, BULATS and IELTS Speaking Examiner, a Cambridge Exams Team Leader and a registered translator and interpreter proficient in Spanish, Italian and English. Following up on his interest in teaching languages with technology, Robert also completed an MA (Double Distinction) in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching at the University of Nottingham, besides a TESOL MA (Merit), a Postgraduate Diploma in TESOL and a Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Management (Distinction). He has submitted his dissertation on an MA in Professional Development for Language Education with NILE/University of Chichester. His professional creed? Excellence, and excellence again.
Elena Bran
SENIOR TEACHER, MENTOR AND TEACHER TRAINER AT IH BUCHAREST
Elena Bran is an experienced teacher of English, mentor and CELTA tutor for IH Bucharest. She has taught a variety of Cambridge exam preparation classes, business English classes and ESP medical English university courses and seminars.
Elena has started her teaching career in 2008 as a high school teacher in Bucharest and since then she has been experiencing different teaching approaches and has manifested an active interest in exploring lots of course designs, teaching practice delivery or ways to make lessons more engaging for the students and the teachers.
From 2009, she began her work as a Centre Manager and language teacher in a private language school in Bucharest and in the next 10 years she finished her Ph. D in Philology (2013), between 2014 and 2019 she gained both her CELTA and all the three DELTA modules, and in 2012 she also began her academic career in the University of Medicine Carol Davila where she is currently working as head of teacher department and lecturer.
Since 2019 she has started focusing more on training educators to improve the quality of their teaching as her main professional dream is to see a change for the better in the educational system.
Teodora Manole
HEAD OF TEACHER TRAINING IH BUCHAREST
Teodora has been working for IH Bucharest since 2010. She has a wide range of experience in teaching and training, having taught a variety of courses, from Business English to exam preparation and YL groups, and currently working as one of our CELTA and IHCYLT Main Course Tutors. As Head of Teacher Training, she contributes to designing and implementing IH Bucharest’s INSETT programme, as well as overseeing our events for external teachers, such as the Coffee @ IH series. Teodora also acts as Teaching Qualifications Centre Administrator, which means she makes sure that all of our teacher training courses are run to the standards imposed by Cambridge and IHWO, and that you have a high chance of meeting her if you apply for one of them.
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