Teachers' diaries
Take a sneak peek into the daily lives of teachers across the world in the Teachers' diaries section.
Each year we run a competition to find a new teacher diarist. Below are all of our fabulous winners and their diaries of teaching English from Dublin to Kazakhstan.
The main aims behind publishing these diaries are: to bring some good writing to you; to open the door to classrooms so that you can share other teachers' experiences of teaching English and to provide a series of thoughts and ideas that will allow you to reflect on teaching practice. We hope you will also find them entertaining. At times the writers also describe the experience of living in a foreign country and some also use occasional strong language.
Inside Teachers' diaries
Louise Richardson
Louise Richardson was born in Melbourne, Australia but now lives in the small, provincial city of Mantova in the north of Italy.
Helena Lustenberger
Helena is an English-born, Swiss-based teacher and lecturer, specializing in Business English and Cambridge exams. Helena currently teaches English to Swiss teachers of English and young farmers studying Business Economics at agricultural college.
Chloë Robbins
Meet Chloë Robbins. Chloë has started her teaching career in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, first teaching at an international school with children between three and 18 years old and now in a language school teaching adults.
Sue Woodward
Meet Sue, our ELT teacher in the Auvergne region of France.
Ruth Powell
Ruth has taught English to adult learners for over ten years in Prague, Copenhagen, Dublin and Ulaanbaatar, where she discovered an interest in yaks. In her non-teaching time, she enjoys hill-walking, meditation and socializing with friends. She is currently teaching English in Ireland.
David Foster
David was born in Manchester, grew up in Wales and ended up in London. He has been teaching English for seven years in the UK and Spain and currently teaches a range of classes at British Study Centres.
Stephanie Earnshaw
Meet Stephanie Earnshaw, our teacher in The Kingdom of Bhutan. Teaching in two schools and a university, she also volunteers at the monastic school in Nalanda.
Amanda Onken
Amanda is a US Peace Corps volunteer. She teaches English as a foreign language in Teteven, Bulgaria.
Amthal Karim
Amthal Karim is an English literature graduate educated in London but now living in Sheffield. She teaches evening classes at Sheffield Hallam University.
Laura McGinnis
Laura moved to the Czech Republic shortly after graduation, and started working for a small language school in Prague. At the time of writing this diary, she was in her second year as an English teacher.
Liana Kokkaliari
At the time of writing this diary, Liana Kokkaliari was working as an English language teacher in state primary schools in Crete, Greece.
Maria Alamanou
At the time of writing this diary, Maria Alamanou owned and ran a private foreign language school in Athens, Greece, where she also taught full time.
Melissa Briggs
At the time of writing this diary, Melissa Briggs had been teaching English for 15 years and was living in Switzerland. She was working online, teaching at a local private school.
Saul Pope
At the time of writing this diary, Saul Pope was the Director of Studies for a private language school in St Petersburg, Russia.
Shiriin Barakzai
At the time of writing this diary, Shiriin Barakzai accepted an unexpected invitation to teach monks English at a local monastery in Nalanda. She tells us all about teaching in this unique situation in this diary for onestopenglish.
Vicky Turner
At the time of writing this diary, Vicky was an ESOL teacher in Vermont, USA.
Willow Vanderbosch
Read about Willow Vanderbosch, our teacher in the Maldives.
