Month: December 2014

Why Did I Go Online?

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I have just launched a new online course (click here for more information) and I would like to share with you the reasons I decided to go online.

First, let me thank my Delta tutor, Marisa Constantinides, and my new online friend and soon-to-be mentor for online teaching, Jack Askew, for ‘opening up’ this completely new path in my career. Deciding to go online is not easy; had it not been for the support of these two people, I would have never done it. Continue reading →

Intensive Cambridge Delta Course: Advice to Future Candidates

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9 weeks, 118 input sessions, 4 assessed teaching practices, 30,000 words in assignments, a written exam, many reflections, and infinite moments of doubt over… basically everything. Delta is over, people!

Some months ago, a very dear tutor of mine had said “You do not understand how or when this course is over; once you start attending, time flies away and as if it were magic, you survive.” This is the Delta course, for me: a course of survival.

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