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She started her teaching career at 18 years old in a private language school in Caracas, Vzla while studying psychology at university. After graduating from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello she got certified with Cambridge University as an English teacher for adults. Having completed her CELTA in 2013, she started working for British Council, one of the most prestigious language schools in the world. There she got certified as a young learners teacher with Trinity College and continued her professional development by also delivering training sessions to teachers. In 2016 she moved to Ecuador where she completed her Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (DELTA) from Cambridge University and has been working at EF language schools as the Academic Director and Cambridge examiner.She is now a CELTA tutor herself and aims to help other teachers and prospective teachers with their professional development.

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Mr. Andrés Paredes Becerra has worked in the education field both as an instructor and administrator since 1994. He is the co-author of the National EFL curriculum implemented by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Education since 2016. He is also the co-author of the curriculum for the 14 levels of CEC-EPN. He co-wrote the series The Academic Books One, Two, Three, and Four. He has presented his seminars and his research at TESOL Seattle in 2007, TESOL Portland in 2013, TESOL Toronto in 2014, TESOL Baltimore in 2016, TESOL Chicago 2018 and his latest research will be presented in TESOL Denver 2020.

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Ben is a writer, teacher trainer and conference speaker. He teaches materials writing on the online MATESOL program of the New School in New York.

For Cambridge University Press, he has published two methodology handbooks for teachers: Language Learning with Digital Video (with Paul Driver) and Working with Images. For students, he has co-authored Evolve - a new adult coursebook series for adults - and Eyes Open/Uncover for teenagers. His areas of interest include visual literacy and issues of identity and the language learner.

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Catherine began teaching English in Ecuador in 1996, and has since worked in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and India as a teacher, teacher trainer, language assessor and ELT consultant in a number of educational settings. She has been a tutor on CELTA courses, and is currently a tutor on the Cambridge CELT-P and CELT-S course. She is also a language assessor for the Cambridge exams and IELTS. Catherine has designed and delivered a number of workshops and courses for teachers in Ecuador, and is now working as a freelance teacher educator.

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Christian Torres Medina is a Teachers Trainer who has a Master Degree in Higher Education with a Mayor in Educational Research. In addition, he has a Bachelor Degree in Teaching English as a Second Language in American and English Literature and Linguistics and, at the moment, he is defending his PhD. In Education at the UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS in Lima, Peru. He has been teaching English since 1997. He has taught children, teenagers and adults. He was a current teacher at the SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AT UNIVERSIDAD LAICA VICENTE ROCAFUERTE since 2000 AND he is the Headmaster of the Institute of Languages at UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA SALESIANA in Guayaquil. He has been attending the TESOL since 2012. Finally, he has shared some workshops in Guayaquil, many cities around Ecuador and Peru for more than 10 years as well.

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Christian Vásquez has over 18 years of experience in academic settings, from high school students to adults and corporate learners. He has a particular set of skills to establish good rapport with students and staff members to help them identify specific educational needs. He has also developed over ten years of experience training teachers and academic managers in learning approaches and service skills. He was the General Secretary for the writing team of the ELT National Curriculum in Ecuador. He holds a Cambridge English ICELT certificate, a C2 Proficiency level of English, the main suite of TKT certificates as well as a DELTA certificate. Christian currently works as the Kay Account Manager at Cambridge University Press in Ecuador.

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He graduated from UDLA University in Advertising and Marketing, but his passion for languages has given him the opportunity to teach English for more than 10 years at different institutions; including UDLA for over 5 years where he currently teaches. He also has a Master's Degree in ELearning and Social Network, which is why of his curiosity for ESL and E-Learning.

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“Lingüíistics and Didactics as well as Teaching English as a Foreign Language” are the degrees that Elizabeth earned at university level. In addition, she holds a diploma in Curriculum and Instruction awarded by Kansas State University. She has also been trained to be an examiner for KET, PET and FCE.She a certified teacher for online and blended learning. Regarding her experience, she has worked for 20 years as an English teacher at all levels in both private and public institutions. She is teaching at UDLA for 6 years so far in face-to-face and online learning settings. She is the author of three books for the Series "English for my country". She published my first paper on Academic Writing: La incidencia del proceso de pre-escritura en la calidad de los ensayos académcos ILE. She is currently working on her sixth book. She really enjoys learning and sharing information about different cultures and languages and of course, technology.

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"Fran Disken is an ELT Publishing Manager at Cambridge University Press, where she has worked for 12 years. Before joining Cambridge, Fran spent 10 years working as a teacher, teacher trainer and materials developer in Turkey, Sri Lanka, Morocco and Germany. Fran is DELTA qualified.

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Graduated from Universidad Cayetano Heredia, with a major in Education and a M.A. in TEFL. She has been an EFL Children and Adult teacher since 2004. She worked as an English Coordinator in several Private Schools and then, became a Teacher Trainer at Centro de Idiomas de la Universidad del Pacífico. In February 2015, she joined Cambridge University Press as Academic Consultant where she has been responsible for academic advising as well as teacher training throughout the country and the Andean Region.

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"With a number of years in education, James is a passionate educator who has taught English in the UK, China, Malaysia and Ecuador.

His versatile classroom experience has seen him teach from very young learners and primary students through to working with secondary, university and Business English students.

He is a certified Cambridge Assessment English speaking examiner (Pre-A1 to C2 levels) and has spoken at a number of education conferences in Ecuador’s key cities: Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca.

One of James’ main focuses is training teachers on any number of methodology teaching practices and the TKT teaching certificate. Along with preparing students for the Cambridge English Qualifications (primary, secondary and adult).

Most recently he held the post of regional manager for all operations for Cambridge University Press in Ecuador’s southern sierra and along the coast.

James stands by strong intercultural values thanks to his international upbringing where he has lived in Europe, Asia, South America and the Caribbean."

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"Jennifer Coppiano is the Academic Director at English Bootcamp Academy. She formerly formed part of the Cambridge University Press team as an English Language Teaching Specialist.

Prior to that she was an English Teacher where she worked in a very diverse environment and acquired great experience in dealing with mixed ability classes as well as blended learning techniques.

She has also done a number of teacher training workshops, training teachers for international examinations as well as giving workshops in different provinces of Ecuador.

Education is very important to her, which is why she has achieved numerous certifications including achieving a C2 in English, the TEFL Certificate from Casa Grande University and her teaching degree at UTPL.".

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John Warren is the owner and Director of International House Quito, Guayaquil and Montañita. He has been a Cambridge Centre Exams Manager in Ecuador since 2003. He has been collaborating with the British Council administrating IELTS since 2008.

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Juan Carlos Hidalgo, a well-known teacher and teacher trainer for his broad experience with children, teenagers and adults, started teaching English at the early age of 14, and is currently working at Cambridge University Press as an ELT Specialist, Key account Manager and Digital coordinator. Over the last ten years, Juan Carlos has been training school and university teachers on different topics such as Planning and Evaluation, Communicative Language Teaching, ESA, PPP, ERCA, Engaging and motivating students, among others. He has also edited some story books for authors from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Education. Today his main area of research is focused on blended learning and using technology in ELT.

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Kari Miller obtained a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She has co-authored various publications, including Uncover for Ecuador Books 1 and 2 and The Academic Books 1, 2, 3, and 4. Currently she lives in Quito, Ecuador, where she works as a teacher educator for professionals around the country.

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Kate Cory-Wright has 30 years’ experience in teaching writing EFL materials. She’s trained EFL teachers all across the world - Latin America, Asia, Africa, North America – and she’s run online courses. During her career, she’s published around 30 EFL course books, from primary to adult, general English to English for the Environment.

"Katerina is TKT and CELTA-certified academic trainer with a degree in Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication and has over a decade of experience teaching in Ecuador and Eastern Europe.

She has been teaching English since the age of 18 to a wide spectrum of ages, nationalities and abilities. She also has extensive experience preparing students for Cambridge English Qualifications including YLE up to a B2 level and holds a C2 Proficiency certificate.

Aside from direct classroom language programmes, she has enjoyed teaching students online from across the world using a number of blended learning techniques.

Katerina speaks five languages and is currently working as an Academic Consultant at Cambridge University Press."

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Katie La Storia has been working in the New York office of Cambridge since 2008, first as a Commissioning Editor and currently as a Publisher. She has also worked as an Editor at Oxford University Press in New York and Cornelsen Publishing House in Berlin. Katie taught English in the US and in Germany, and she holds an MA in German Literature.

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María Paulina Fabara is a full-time teacher for more than 5 years at the School of Languages from Universidad de las Americas-Udla Quito-Ecuador. She has taught several levels from regular levels to English for specific purposes levels. She is currently being part of the piloting program to introduce the book Evolve from Cambridge. As part of the pilot program, she has designed three term-exams and provide academic support. She is a 20-year-old-experienced teacher who holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Modern Languages from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Colombia and a Masters of Arts Degree in Educational Management from University of Bath, UK. She has recently obtained a Master’s Degree in Social Intervention from Universidad Internacional de La Rioja UNIR, Spain. She has worked for private and public institutions as an English Teacher and as an Education Expert. She has some publications. Currently, she is writing 6 Instructional Modules for the National Educational Systems English Subject (11th Grade) for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Education. She has been a speaker in several congresses. In 2019 she participated in the CINAIC International Congress about Learning, Innovation and Cooperation, Madrid-Spain presenting her research paper “A learning service experience of young university students in Quito-Ecuador” sponsored by Universidad de las Americas-Udla.

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Olha has taught in the UK, Greece, Hong Kong and Venezuela. She is a freelance author, materials’ designer, consultant and teacher trainer.

She is based in London and as well as working with Cambridge University Press does consultation, teacher training and teacher trainer training for organisations such as the The British Council and Ministries of Education worldwide.

Her main focus is on understanding and motivating young learners.

She is the author of Film, TV and Music, a photocopiable activities book for teenagers, Cambridge University Press.

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Pablo Toledo is an English teacher and teacher trainer (IES “Joaquín V. González”), and holds a diploma in education policy from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Before joining Cambridge Assessment English, he managed projects in the areas of remote teaching, internationalisation of higher education and language teaching to refugees for the British Council and led the Education department of the Buenos Aires Herald newspaper. In his current position as Assessment Manager for the Southern Cone and Andes, he is in charge of providing appropriate and innovative assessment solutions for stakeholders in the region. He is a board member of LAALTA (Latin American Association of Language Testing and Assessment).

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Raúl is an English teacher with over 19 years of teaching experience with teens and adults. He has taught subjects like; Arts, Sociology, Literature, Science, Language arts and Academic writing. Also, TOEFL, PET, FCE and CAE preparation courses for teens, teachers and business managers. He worked for almost 5 years as an educational consultant for Oxford University Press´ material and a teacher trainer for Books and Bits education. Currently, he´s an academic consultant for Cambridge University Press and a teacher at the Benedict School of Languages in Guayaquil.

For over 20 years Ricardo has been actively involved in digital and online education. Since he joined Cambridge University Press in 2012 he has been providing academic consultancy and training to a number of institutions in Latin America. He currently holds the post of Academic Services Manager for Mexico and Central America

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Vicky is from the UK but currently lives in Ecuador. She has 20 years’ experience in the field of English Language Teaching and Training and has worked in countries all around the world in a variety of settings including government bodies, private language institutes, schools, and colleges. In the last eight years, she has focussed on Teacher Training delivering over twenty Cambridge CELTA courses in various countries. She has also worked on different school projects which involved mentoring and working with local Primary and Secondary teachers to help improve their ability to plan and deliver quality English lessons.

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MSc. William E. Yugsàn has a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction with the Area of Specialization in English as a Second Language granted by Kansas State University. He was also awarded the Study of the USA scholarship by the Fulbright Commission of Ecuador. Presently, he works at Universidad de las Americas at the School of Languages and also at Universidad Central del Ecuador; he has collaborated with different educational institutions such as Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Instituto Superior Libertad, Instituto ITSA (Ibarra-Ecuador). He is an educator with 23 years of experience and he has been a consultant and trainer for different publishing companies.