Baden has a membership of approximately 100 people of varied interests and backgrounds. Their aim is to have a workshop or get-together every 3-4 months. Drawing from our members' rich pool of talent and expertise, plus reaching out to other ETAS professionals, we will continue to improve our Baden branch's awareness of current teaching practices.

  Caroline Rickli

I was born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa.  I have been living in Switzerland for the last 12 years - in Baden since March of last year and love it in this area. 
In 2004 I completed the CELTA and SVEB bridge and started teaching English in-company.  At the moment I am teaching in-company and for the ZB. Zentrum Bildung - Wirtschaftsschule KV Baden.  My professional interests include writing feedback, blended learning and CALL and I am on the 'home run' with a master's in teaching English through a university in the UK.

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Katharina Hegy-Bürgin

 

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Käthi is Swiss, grew up in the Basel area and now lives in Arlesheim with her family. Before she graduated from Gymnasium she was an exchange student in San Jose, California. Back home she studied English and French language and literature at the University of Basel and became a teacher for those two languages. For a few years she also worked as a secretary and translator in various firms before she went back to teaching. She taught visually handicapped adults and then worked in a secondary school in Basel. As from August 2009 she will teach English at a vocational college in Basel. Käthi remains attached to English through her job of course, but also through her hobby, Scottish country dancing and through her various visits to Britain.

Antoinette Breutel-O'Donoghue

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Kim Bisson

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Kim Bisson has Bachelor degrees in biology and human nutrition. Since arriving in Switzerland 8 years ago from Canada she has completed the CELTA, SVEB bridge and has started work on the DELTA. She teaches English for Specific Purposes (medical and science related) as well as Business English.

Annette Leimer

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Annette Leimer is a trained translator and has a CELTA. After spending her childhood in the USA, she has lived in various parts of Switzerland, interrupted by a two-year stay in Belgium. She divides her working hours between translating and teaching English for Specific Purposes (medical) and general English.

Donna Aebersold

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Donna Aebersold, an American, was born and raised in New England. After finishing her studies in Arts Administration (BA Hope College, Holland, MI 1978) she travelled for an international educational organization where she met her Swiss husband.

Andrew Hart

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Andrew has worked with adults and young learners as a teacher, teacher trainer and academic manager in the UK, Spain, New Zealand and Switzerland. He has been working with Bell in Geneva since 2008 and is currently Head of English. His qualifications include an MA TESOL from Sheffield Hallam University and the DELTA.

Peter J. Pasquill

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- Born Shropshire, England

- University of Zürich MA (English Language and Linguistics)

- Diploma in Training Management, Institute of Applied Psychology, Zürich

- Head of Second Languages at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz / Engadine

- Teaches English, Theory of Knowledge and Global Citizenship

- Examiner for International Baccalaureate English B

- Current teaching interests: literature, curriculum design and assessment, CLIL

- Has been an ETAS member since the early 1980's and was once National Programme Coordinator (before emails and mobile phones - even before faxes!)

Fiona Emms

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Scottish by birth, Fiona grew up in South Africa. After coming to Switzerland in 2001 with her husband and 2 sons, she was up for something more challenging and entered the world of ELT.

Sue Nikles

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Sue, having grown up in England, came to Switzerland as an au pair to brush up her French and, as has happend to many others, stayed on permanently. She started teaching English in 1986 and has worked for a private language school, mostly in-company, since 1999.

Francesca Elsaesser

Francesca studied English and Italian literature at Zurich university and has been working in the field of further education for a good number of years; to begin with teaching languages, and nowadays her main focus regards anything to do with communication and motivation. Being a keen learner herself, further training in any kind of form has always been the common theme in the songbook of her life and she enjoys imparting all her new tunes. She's Swiss.

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Liudmila Viaroukina

Liudmila was born in Vitebsk, Belarus. After graduating from Vitebsk State University, she did her MA course and began teaching at the English Language Department, Vitebsk State University. She specialised in such courses as Speech Practice, Phonetics (theoretical and practical), Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages. She continued professional education by taking a training course at Minsk State University and a distance training course at the Department of Pedagogical Education of Moscow State University. In 2009 she moved to Switzerland and began teaching at a British school.

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Nicole Jaks

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Nicole Jaks was born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up in Delaware, Connecticut, Texas, California, Arizona and Sao Paulo, Brazil. After graduating from UCLA with a B.A. in Geography and Environmental Science, she moved to Switzerland where she married a Swiss-Czech. Speaking Portuguese, French and Italian, she thought it would be interesting to be the teacher instead of the student so began teaching English at a language school in 1997. In 2004 she became Regional Coordinator for Ticino. Since 2005 she has been teaching English and cooking classes to adults for the canton. In 2008, she began working for the public school system teaching English and Geography. In 2012, she obtained her M.Ed in International Education with an ESL specialization from Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Rut Castanera

Rut Castanera comes from Barcelona originally. After obtaining a BA Honours degree from University of Bath she lived in Florence and in Barcelona where she worked for a few years as a translator/interpreter and within the hospitality industry. She began teaching EFL at a language school in 2006 and received her CELTA in 2011. She currently lives with her husband in Lugano and she teaches at several language schools.

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 Barbara Bréchet Mottier

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Ruth Benvegnen

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Born in England, Ruth moved to Switzerland in 1987. Fully bilingual, she ran her own successful English language school for young learners around the Lausanne area for 17 years before moving on to work for Lausanne University as an English teacher and at Lausanne's Haute Ecole Pédagogique developing modules for English didactics for primary level. She has over 20 years' experience in EFL, 15 years' experience as a teacher trainer and completed a Masters in teaching English to young learners with York University in 2010. She is presently Project Coordinator for both language and didactics projects for pre-service and in-service Vaud primary school teachers so that English can be introduced successfully in Vaud primary schools in 2015. She has been a member of ETAS since 1997 and Vaud regional coordinator since 2009.

  Sue Wood

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Sue came to Switzerland from Bath, UK in 1988 with the intention of staying a minimum of two years. Like many others, she drifted into teaching, and now works for a private language school based in Zürich.

  Corinne Frei

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A change of career in the late 90s led to CELTA and some other teaching qualifications. Coco now works for a private language school based in Zürich.