8th Annual Cambridge ESOL Spring Seminar 2012
Speaker Profiles
Nancie Gantenbein- 18 years working experience in Switzerland
- Trainer on Cambridge CELTA
- Teacher for Cambridge ESOL exams
- CertIBET with distinction
- 10 years Director of Studies
- 2 years Academic Director (to date)
Urs Kalberer
- 23 years working experience teaching English to secondary classes at state schools in Switzerland.
- Teacher trainer and workshop presenter on various topics in TESOL
- ETAS TeenSIG coordinator
- M.Ed. in ELT at the University of Manchester
Paul Kelly
- 27 years working experience in Ireland, Germany and Switzerland
- Trainer on Cambridge CELTA and Cambridge DELTA courses
- Teacher for Cambridge ESOL exams
- M.A. in Applied Linguistics and ELT
Dr Gad S Lim
- Senior Research and Validation Manager, Cambridge ESOL
- Lead researcher on writing assessment
- PhD in Education from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- Taught in higher education and trained language teachers in Asia, America, and Europe
- Has published on writing assesment, language teaching, standard setting, validity issues and the CEFR, as well as fiction and non-fiction
John Potts
- Course Director of Cambridge CELTA and Cambridge DELTA teacher training scheme / TLC Baden
- Team Member / Assessor for CELTA worldwide
- Teacher for Cambridge ESOL Exams / intermediate to proficiency
- Teacher of General English, Business English and Literature
- Author and Co-author for ELT Publications
- Experienced seminar and workshop presenter in Switzerland and abroad
Sarah Rogerson
- 12 years working experience within the EFL industry
- Manager of a thriving ESOL department in a UK Further Education College
- Seven years teaching and managing a language school in Taiwan
- Responsible for production of FCE for Schools Writing and BEC Preliminary Reading and Writing
Mairi Sinclair
- 30 years working experience in Scotland, Switzerland and Germany in the private and school sector with students of all ages and backgrounds
- Member of Cambridge ESOL Presenter Team Germany
- Cambridge ESOL Regional Team Leader South Germany and Cambridge ESOL Team Leader Baden-Württemberg
- Teacher / examiner for all Cambridge ESOL exams
- Teacher / teacher trainer for General English & English for Special Purposes