Member Directory

Charlotte has worked in ELT for more than 15 years and is based in Spain. Her teaching work is a combination of YL classes and in-company Business English. Charlotte also enjoys working with teachers and her training work includes delivering workshops and various online courses. She regularly attends and presents at ELT conferences and is an ESOL Examiner for Trinity College London.
In her spare time, she teaches English via Skype to female members of the judiciary in Afghanistan with the US-based NGO, Alliance for International Women’s Rights.

Lindsay Clandfield is a Canadian trainer, teacher and award-winning author. He is a tutor on our Trinity DipTESOL course and the Course Director of our teacher development courses.He’s the lead author of Macmillan’s critically-acclaimed coursebook Global, and the force behind the popular blog Six Things. Has written numerous books for learners and specialist books for teachers in addition to being a frequent speaker at international conferences for English language teachers. In this blog post he provides some of his tip for passing the unit 1 written exam of the Trinity DipTESOL course.

Blythe is one of our Developing Teacher with Spanish and Teaching Business English graduates. She is a freelance ESL teacher and entrepreneur currently based in Barcelona, Spain. She began her teaching career in Bangkok, Thailand where she served as an English educator for the Royal Palace of Thailand. She has since worked with teens, adults, and business executives over the course of her 10+ year teaching career.

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Patrick has been a full time freelance copy and content writer for over three years. He writes for a variety of niches, including education, software development, nutrition, and finance. Find him at patrickgallantcopywriting.com.

Rubens Heredia is a CELTA tutor and teacher trainer based in Barcelona. He is one of the creators of the website and YouTube channel What is ELT? and is also a vlogger for the magazines ETprofessional and Modern English Teachers (Pavilion ELT).

An active member of the ELT community both online and offline, he’s a frequent speaker in international ELT conferences, such as IATEFL, TESOL and Bras-TESOL.

He started working as an English teacher in Brazil in 2002 and has been working with teacher training and development since 2012. He holds the DELTA and is currently taking an MA in TESOL at Nile/University of Chichester.

Kate is a teacher and teacher trainer at our school in central Barcelona, Oxford House. She teaches adults and young learners at the school and in-company classes in the city. Originally from Lancashire in the UK, she has taught English in Honduras, Bolivia, Galicia and London. Kate has taught all types of English from General English and Young learners to Business English and exam preparation classes. As Oxford TEFL Connect coordinator, Kate organises all the online events, ensures the platform runs smoothly and is your go-to person when you have any questions or need to request support from one of our tutors. She has been tutoring on the Developing Teacher course since 2011 and coordinating the course since 2016.

Tyson Seburn is a tutor on our blended Trinity DipTESOL course. He is also an EAP instructor and Assistant Academic Director of International Programs at New College, University of Toronto. He holds an MA Educational Technology & TESOL from the University of Manchester. His main interest focuses on identity and its various impacts on teacher development. In addition to this, he is Coordinator of the IATEFL TDSIG committee and author of Academic Reading Circles (The Round, 2015).

Farid Bashiri is one of our Trinity DipTESOL graduates and IB-certified educator with a Master’s in TEFL and a Bachelor’s in English Literature.
A British Council-certified teacher trainer, he has been teaching English since 2005, specializing in exam preparation (TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, etc.) for teens and adults.
Currently based in Turkey, Farid has presented teacher training workshops at numerous prestigious international ELT conferences and events and runs his own teacher training workshops with the support of Oxford TEFL.
He is also a part-time YouTuber (@FaridBashiri.edu.), creating content on effective teaching and learning.
His main areas of interests include language teacher professional development, and educational assessment.