Meet Our Trainers

Originally an Archaeologist, she started teaching as a means to travel and be paid to do so but found that she loved it. Louise loves meeting people and having the opportunity to have a positive influence on their lives. TEFL teaching gives you the possibility to see the world and to really get to know the people in it, as you often learn as much from your students as they do from you. She believes that being genuinely interested in people is key to being a great teacher. She has taught all ages and abilities and enjoys the variety you get in TEFL teaching. Her advice to people new to TEFL teaching is to always remember to be kind and supportive to the students. Happy, comfortable people learn. Be positive and encouraging and you get back positivity and progress.

She’s worked in private language schools, UK primary and secondary schools and Colleges and taught in all settings from small groups and 1:1 to large classes of noisy teenagers! She has a real passion for travel and has visited over twenty countries. She loves languages and teaches Spanish too! If she could give any prospective teacher two simple pieces of advice it would be, “to get to know your students – if there’s no rapport then you (and they) will be in for a tough time – and to observe other teachers, which is great way to pick up some tips. TEFL could be a short-term way for you to travel, or it could turn into a lifelong career, but I guarantee that it’s a really rewarding job and lots of fun.”

The world of TEFL appealed largely due to her low boredom threshold; She enjoys the peripatetic nature of the work, as well as meeting new people on a regular basis. She’s a lifelong horror movie fan and loves a good ghost story. Her advice for prospective EFL teachers is not to panic about the grammar but tackle it piecemeal; research what you’ll be teaching before each lesson, and over time it will all come together.