About Me

Firstly, teaching was not my chosen profession. In fact, after I graduated college I took a number of different career paths. One of which led to becoming a chef.  However, after 12 years of slugging my guts out in a hot sweaty kitchen, I decided enough was enough!

With this in mind, I enrolled in a distance learning course at the The London University College Kensington, to study Graphic Design and Advertising. This was definitely more my passion. I continued working as a chef during my studies and after 5 long years – I finally graduated!

The move into teaching

However, finding work in this field in the Canary Islands has proven to be hard. Therefore, I decided to work for myself.  In addition to this, I started to look into other ways I could use my new skills in Gran Canaria, like teaching English.

After much research, I enrolled in a 120hr online TEFL course.  I passed with a Distinction in 2017. In 2020 during the COVID-19 lock down, I updated this, by completing the new Level 5 TEFL Qualification. This is now the industry standard, also gaining a Distinction.

Combining my skills

To sum up, using both my teaching and graphic design skills I found it easy to create interesting and informative content, based around English learning. This led me towards a new direction… Creating my own teaching courses. These courses will be provided to students over the internet on specially designed E-learning platforms. Exactly the same way I had completed both my TEFL courses.

To find out more information about these courses go to the courses page.