ELTCampus Online English Teacher Training

James Santana Heal is an exam preparation and teen expert! James has been teaching at the British Institute of Seville for the last 17 years, having taught previously in the United Kingdom, Poland, and Indonesia. He has taught all ages, but has a particular specialty: he's recognised by his teaching colleagues as being great with teens. He is interested in teacher training, encouraging students to become autonomous learners, and the use of student- generated materials. He has published several articles in the ETP magazine on differentiation and routines with young learners. He has a degree in Modern and Contemporary History, a CELTA and Delta.

Emma’s specialism is looking at creative solutions to classroom practice and learning, working with all age groups. She has a background in museum and visual arts education and English language teaching, as well as communications, marketing, video, audio, design and coding. She has also worked in teacher management working with the business side of running language schools and working with agents. She is a visual artist with an active, recognised career spanning 20 + years (emmapratt.com). Her current project is in writing and illustrating for children. She is also a parent and company director.

In learning, her area of interest is in artmaking as a physical, intellectual, and emotional response to the world. She investigates ways in which it can be used in English language contexts to engage children’s brains, challenge their visual schema, and give voice to non-verbal forms of communication. She has contributed to publications and blogs on this subject.

Emma has given workshops at IATEFL and The Image Conference on drawing in the classroom as well as being the 2018 Artist in Residence at IATEFL. She is interested in the role of illustration in storytelling and how to exploit that in the classroom. Emma has been involved in an Artists in Schools programme and in artist residency projects where she has looked at storytelling. Online, she has given drawing and language workshops for children.

Emma has been designing online learning courses since 2013 and was, with Jamie King, a finalist in the ELTons 2014 for Innovation in Teaching Resources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Fine Arts
• CELTA Certificate– Certificate in English Language Teacher to Adults (Seville, Spain)
• Post Graduate: Museum Studies, Massey University, New Zealand
• Master in Programming (CEI, Spain)
• Languages: English; Spanish (upper-intermediate advanced); Māori (beginner)