Teachers' diaries

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.