Charlotte Thompson
Director of Teacher Training
Charlotte has been teaching for 28 years. She ensures all our teacher trainers are at the forefront of their profession. Charlotte trained in the UK and spent the first ten years of her career in Japan. She has taught all ages from kindergarten to adults, and worked in different contexts from schools to companies. She became a teacher trainer for CELTA and Delta and has been working for IH London for 15 years. Charlotte says: “The move from being a new teacher to being an experienced and skilled teacher requires more than time. Teachers have to keep learning!”
Adrian Underhill
Expert Series Trainer and Trustee at IH London
Adrian is a world-renowned ELT Consultant and Trainer. Adrian is an author and the series editor of the MacMillan Books for Teachers. He is well known for his book Sound Foundations and his inspiring talks on how to understand the phonemic chart. His pronunciation chart was developed into an app for students and teachers and won an industry award. Adrian takes a holistic approach to teaching and teacher training and is a frequent conference speaker.
Paulette Milego
Distance Delta Programme Manager
Paulette first trained as a teacher in 1984 at IH London. 10 years later Paulette was training up new teachers in the same classroom. Paulette has taught and trained in Turkey, Spain, Brazil, Kenya and Russia. She is now based at IH London, but still works with teachers all over the world through our distance training programme. Paulette works directly with Cambridge English, part of the University of Cambridge, on their Delta qualifications for Modules 1, 2 and 3.
Jan Madakbas
CELTA and Delta Trainer
Jan has been at IH London since 2001 and before that worked in Moscow and Istanbul as a teacher and Director of Studies. He is a CELTA and Delta trainer and runs Academic Management Courses. He is a coordinator for the online Distance Delta Programme and a school inspector for EAQUALS. He has been involved in designing and writing online materials for IH London and overseas clients. He is a Cambridge ESOL marker for DELTA Module 3.
Melanie Bryant
Teacher and Teacher Trainer
Melanie Bryant has been a teacher and trainer at IH London since 1991. She specialises in Professional English and is a Business English CertIBET trainer. Her wide-ranging experience includes delivering tailor-made business and specialist group and one-to-one courses. She is also a materials writer. Before coming to London she worked in Berlin. She holds an MA (Hons) and the RSA/UCLES Dip TEFLA.
Fiona Johnston
Teacher (General English)
Fiona studied Modern Languages at Oxford, and after a career in the equity markets she made a successful transition to teaching English in 2002. She has worked in Cambodia and Thailand, and speaks French and German. Her qualifications are: BA (Hons), Cambridge DELTA. Fiona has a Masters (MA) in Film Studies from UCL.