Teachers' diaries

Inside Teachers' diaries

• 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.

• David Carver

  At the time of writing this diary, David was a recently CELTA-qualified teacher working in a small friendly language school in London, teaching a three-hour advanced class four times a week and a three-hour conversation class on Friday.

• David Foster

  David is one of our two onestopenglish diarists for 2012. He was born in Manchester, grew up in Wales and ended up in London. David has been teaching English for seven years in the UK and Spain and currently teaches a range of classes at British Study Centres. When he’s not teaching, David is ...

• 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.

• Lynda Ross

  At the time of writing this diary, Lynda Ross had just undertaken a six month voluntary placement in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

• Maria Alamanou

  At the time of writing this diary, Maria Alamanou owned and ran a private FL 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.

• Ruth Powell

  Ruth is one of our two onestopenglish diarists for 2012. She 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. ...

• 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.

• Simon Greenfield

  At the time of writing this diary, Simon had taught in the South-West of China for the past 11 months and was just about to start a further six-month contract. The city he was living in rarely receives Western visitors so his diary often takes in the experience of being a bit of a star attraction.

• Stephanie Earnshaw

  Stephanie Earnshaw returns to teaching in this continuation of our series of teachers' diaries from The Kingdom of Bhutan. She starts off in two schools and a university, as well as taking over from Shiriin Barakzai as a volunteer at the monastic school in Nalanda.

• Vicky Turner

  At the time of writing this diary, Vicky was an ESOL teacher in Vermont, USA.

• Willow Vanderbosch

  At the time of writing this diary, Willow lived and worked in a hotel resort complex in the Maldives.

• Sue Woodward

  Meet Sue; our onestopenglish diarist for the 2013-4 term! Sue taught German and French in UK secondary schools and set up her own tutoring business before turning to ELT. After moving to the Auvergne region of France four years ago, she managed to secure a variety of teaching work, including young learners, ...