Meet Our Trainers

Stephen Halden

COURSE DIRECTOR

Stephen, who is responsible for delivering the course, has worked as a senior teacher, lead teacher-trainer and Director of Studies and training in Spain, Britain and Mexico. During this time, he has held senior academic positions in the British Council, and has worked as an Academic Consultant developing teaching training programs for other prestigious training organizations. Stephen has developed and coordinated onsite and online training courses and has trained teachers for over ten years. He holds a Licentiate Diploma, Post-Graduate Diploma, and an MA in TEFL

Kerry Brennan

COURSE TUTOR/STUDENT SERVICES

Kerry has been working in the language field for many years. She has worked with and taught children and adults from various backgrounds. Initially she worked as a speech therapist in NYC and dealt with only bilingual and multilingual children. Throughout that time, she continued her education by extending her B.S. degree in speech therapy to be able to understand better and work with the bilingual/multi-lingual population and was trained in ESL. After several years of working within this context she decided to learn more about living and adapting to other cultures just as many of her students had. She first embarked upon this adventure in Mexico and then later moved to Spain. In order to be certified to teach in other countries she completed her TEFL certificate with our Partner School in 2005. Upon completing the course, she continued to teach English in a variety of contexts and later went on to complete her MA degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Barcelona. Currently, she continues: teaching English to adults and children, studying languages and learning about different cultures as well as conducting research and finally has become part of our Partner School team in Barcelona.

Jonathan Davies

COURSE TUTOR

Jon, originally from Exeter in England, has been involved in language teaching since 1991. He graduated from Middlesex University in London with an Honours degree in French and Spanish with modules in TEFL, following this with a PGCE in Modern Languages and TEFL in 1994. After teaching in Bilbao, Toulouse and Oporto, he moved to Barcelona in 1995 to teach at the British Council Young Learners' Centre, developing an expertise in Classroom Management for children and adolescents, about which he has written articles and given presentations. Over ten years later, he believes that it is important for teacher trainers not to "lose touch", so continues to teach English at the two main Universities in Barcelona, as well as at the University of Exeter in the summers.

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