Letter from our Director of Studies

My name is Andrea, and I’m the Director of Studies at TtMadrid. Together with the rest of the TtMadrid TEFL team, I’ll guide you through all the necessary steps to ensure that you’re a well-rounded, confident TEFL teacher by the end of our intensive four-week course!

Our course is pretty full on, so it’s normal that you’ll find some days more challenging than others, but we’ll always compensate the stressful days with lots of fun, high energy and laughter!

As a TEFL trainee, you’ll get full support during the course and afterwards for as long as you need it. Your six teaching practices will be invaluable in allowing you to practice, reflect and grow as a teacher, ensuring that when you finish the course you feel confident and prepared. You will also receive unlimited support as we tackle the grammar sessions head-on and get a good grasp on the present and perfect tenses, as well as other grammatical terminology.

Apart from the academic challenge; the change of career, culture, and country all add to the experience that you’ll get during and after the course. This is, for many of us, a life-changing experience, one that can test you, challenge you, but above all enlighten you, whether you’re an experienced teacher or entirely new to the world of ESL teaching in Madrid.

The whole TtMadrid TEFL team looks forward to meeting you on the course and watching you develop into a great teacher.

Andrea de Lusignan
Director of Studies

Andrea is from Bedfordshire, England.  After working as a Management and Leadership Trainer for large corporate businesses for more than 10 years, she decided to leave the rat-race and head over to Spain to start a new life. After 3 months of travelling and enjoying Spanish life and culture, she settled on teaching English as a foreign language as her next career move, and has stayed in Madrid ever since. Andrea has been a freelance teacher throughout most of her time in Madrid, working on various projects, but more recently has been working as an academic coordinator, and now as Director of Studies for TtMadrid.  She has plenty of advice from her experience working in the TELF industry to share!

Andrea LOVES to challenge herself so feel free to ask her about half marathons, the Camino de Santiago and Spanish life in general!

Alina studied English, Spanish and Arabic at Uni, with a Master’s Degree in Intercultural Studies. She initially came to Madrid to study TEFL with TtMadrid but soon fell in love with Madrid (and a Spaniard) and decided to call it home for the long run. She has worked as an English teacher for years and has managed academies here in Spain.

Alina is a real foodie, she loves history and is passionate about interior design.

While working as an Au Pair, Molly completed her TEFL December 2012 and worked for a few years as a BEDA language assistant in various high schools across Madrid, while teaching private classes in the evenings. Molly later joined TtMadrid and hasn’t looked back – her ‘one year in Madrid’ has turned into a life-long plan. She has recently taken up jogging to counterbalance her addiction to tortilla, vino and patatas bravas, and now also considers herself an expert in Madrid’s lovely public parks.