Tatiana Golechkova, PhD in Cognitive Linguistics, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Languages at the New Economic School.

She is a Cambridge Delta qualified EFL teacher and teacher-trainer with broad experience in course design, materials development and teaching General English, Exams, English for Academic and Specific purposes, and Soft Skills.

Her areas of special interest include strategies for effective written and oral communication, genre features of English texts, and learner autonomy. She has presented and run workshops at several national and international conferences, including NATE, IATEFL, BALEAP, IEEE ICET.

Olga Connolly has been involved in teacher training for more than 15 years, and she has worked as a Director of Studies at BKC-IH Moscow.

Since 2020 she has been working as a syllabus developer, materials designer and editor. She continues running teacher training and teacher development courses and providing methodology consultancy.

Heather Belgorodtseva is the Director of Studies for Teacher Training at BKC IH Moscow. Teaching English since 1998, she has been a teacher, an academic manager and a teacher trainer in both London and Moscow, in private language schools and further education colleges. She has run as many as 90 CELTA courses and now trains on a CELTA-alternative course for BKC, and on post-CELTA courses, including Delta preparation for modules 1 and 3.

Alena Nikitina is an EFL teacher with more than 20 years of experience (with 13 years at RUDN University, Moscow). She has been working as a freelance teacher for the last 2 years.

Alena is a TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, an author and co-author of 3 textbooks, a course designer, and a conference speaker (Meaningful Weekend 2021, #YarConf22).

She has conducted 8 online marathons on CPE writing.

Originally a specialist in International Economics, Veronika's interest in languages has led her into the EFL classroom.

Being a TESOL and CELTA-qualified EFL teacher with 10+ years of experience in various educational environments, she finds the teaching profession truly rewarding.

She's currently working as a freelance private tutor with a focus on General English and Cambridge exams (YLE, Key, Preliminary, First). Her students range from Elementary to Upper-Intermediate.

Veronika is interested in further development of her skills and always willing to expand her knowledge.

Tatiana Vinogradenko is currently working as an English teacher at BKC-ih school in Moscow. Apart from teaching children, teens and adults general English and teaching students for academic purposes, she has participated in a BKC programme of teaching different subjects (such as Psychology, History of Religion, Art, History of Photography) in English. Also, Since April, 2022, she has been running an Art course for pre-school and elementary school children in Moscow Multimedia Art Museum in English.

Tatiana is also a lecturer at the Department of Second Education (programme: ’Primary School Education and English’) in Moscow State Pedagogical University where she runs lectures and seminars on the Methodology of teaching foreign languages

Danilo Ribeiro was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil but has been living in Moscow for five years. He holds a B.A in translation and interpreting, the CPE, the IH CAM, CELTA, the ICELT and the full Cambridge DELTA.

He teaches proficiency exams for teachers and students and is interested in LDT and discourse for exam teaching.

Alexandra Letikova is a CELTA-qualified English teacher working as a private tutor. She teaches English to kids and adults online. Her focus is on General and Business English.

Alexandra has got 10 years of working experience in business ( HR, Internal Communications fields in IT, Consulting, Gold Mining, Oil Refinery, and FMCG industries).

She enjoys sharing her experience and learning from other people. She has an interest in everything new and likes travelling and taking photos.

Alexey Lebedev is a freelance Swedish and English teacher with 10 years of experience, MA in Philology.

He specializes in teaching adults. He possesses an IH certificate Teaching 1-2-1.

He leads a project called ‘Sångskolan’ that helps his students study Swedish with songs.

Anna is an EFL teacher with more than 14 years of experience. She specializes in teaching adults, both groups and individuals paying special attention to psychological aspects of teaching, i.e. reducing foreign language anxiety, working with procrastination and perfectionism.

Anna leads the project «English Anonymous» for high-level learners, where some taboos and issues are discussed in a safe space with respectful listening and challenging the opinion, not the person.

Anna Maksimenko is a self-employed CELTA and DELTA (module 1) - qualified English teacher based in Slovenia. She has been teaching English to groups of students and individuals, both online and offline, since 2015. Having taught different age groups, she has realised her favourites are teenagers and adults. Her teaching belief is that a perfect approach to teaching is a combination of various methods and approaches depending on the lesson objectives and individual students' differences as well as preferences. Teach - reflect - adjust - repeat!