Tetyana Tereshchenko

IHCTL and Diploma in TEFL (Colchester, VT, USA)
IHC tutor since 1997
CELTA Tutor/Assessor since 2002
Delta Module 2 Tutor since 2015
CELTA/IHC tutor trainer

I have been working for IH Kyiv for 23 years. I am the Head of Teacher Training, conduct TT courses and travel a lot to run and assess CELTA in Ukraine and abroad (Romania, Northern Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Georgia). I love what I have been doing and I am proud to have trained about 400 CELTA candidates, 8 Delta ones and 15 CELTA trainers.

Amir Landa

BA in Communication – University of Massachusetts
CELTA, YL Extension to the CELTA
Delta
CELTA and YL Extension Trainer

Amir has been working as a CELTA and YL Extension Trainer in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia since 2012, and has trained up teachers on CELTA courses in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine. He loves supporting new and experienced teachers in their development and watching them blossom into creative and independent practitioners. Amir also loves playing the guitar and hanging out with his dog.

Olena Lysytsya

Olena has been teaching EFL for the last 15 years and has been a teacher trainer for about 12 years already. As an approved IHWO tutor Olena has presented and administered IH Teacher Training courses for IH Kyiv (IHCTL, IHCYLT, IHVYL).

Olena has been a CELTA teacher trainer since August 2019.

Olena’s teaching principles have always been as follows:
1️⃣Your students are your ‘course’ designers.
2️⃣Less successful lessons are your areas to work on – think over them.
3️⃣Peer observations and self-observations are opportunities for new ideas and new techniques. Exploit them to the maximum!
4️⃣Your lesson preparation time is about planning proactive and reactive measures.
5️⃣Never stop developing and improving your professional skills.
6️⃣And never forget: Teaching is your superpower! Use it wisely!

Tetyana Ivanova

Tetiana has been teaching EFL and providing training for teachers for more than 20 years. She has been an IHCTL teacher trainer since 2018 and a CELTA teacher trainer since August 2019.
She worked as a teacher trainer for the Pearson Publishing House, too.
Tetiana encourages trainees to master new approaches and techniques in teaching English and inspires them to professional development and growth.

Her recommendations for CELTA candidates are as follows:

🚩Be prepared to work a lot to meet the course requirements but your effort is going to be fully rewarded in the end.
🚩Enjoy what you are doing and your students will appreciate it and will enjoy your classes.
🚩Be open to new ideas – they may help you make your lessons both professional and inspiring to learners.

Svitlana Starykova

CELTA, CELTYL and DELTA
CELTA tutor since 2019
CELT-P/S tutor since 2019
Teacher Trainer for 12 years, creating and delivering seminars for teachers
International Speaking Examiner for 15 years

I have been teaching English for 27 years.
I love helping teachers progress and develop into keen professionals with lots of interesting ideas for teaching adults and YLs.

Joe Fisher

Joe has had a varied and extensive career in English teaching.  He has taught in 15 different countries in a variety of teaching, management and teacher training roles since 2004.  He’s helped teachers achieve their goals on over 40 CELTAs across the globe.  Now working as Director of Studies and Teacher Trainer at IH Kyiv, he brings all this experience and knowledge from around the world to his CELTA courses.

Jackie Spencer

Jackie Spencer has been teaching English for more than 24 years and has taught in a diverse range of countries – Japan, China, the United Arab Emirates and Australia - and in a diverse range of contexts, including to migrants, inmates of correctional centres, backpackers, and on pre-sessional programs for university and technical college students. She has been a CELTA tutor on 8 courses, the last two of which have been online. She has a Master of Arts in TESOL and a Cambridge CELTA and DELTA. She currently lives in locked down Sydney and looks at social media photos of partying Europeans with great envy.