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.

Nicola Feyen

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Nicola is British and grew up on the outskirts of London. She has lived in Switzerland since October 2004 when she moved here with her German husband. Since receiving her TEFL certificate in 1998 (in-between studying for a Bachelor's degree in Geography at Southampton University), Nicola has taught English to children, teenagers and adults of all levels in various countries, including Romania, China and Germany.

Sarah Giles

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Sarah comes from Paighton in South Devon on "The English Riviera", where the rest of her family still live. A qualified bilingual secretary (English & French), she worked for English language schools in Paignton and Torquay for over 10 years, firstly on the administration side and then as a teacher. She moved to Switzerland in November 2007 to live with her partner and has worked as an English trainer for TLC - The Language Company in Baden since then.

 

 

 

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.

  Hazel Trepp

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Hazel was born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland before moving to Canada when she was 17. She studied sociology at York University in Canada with one year at a British university. As part of her world tour, she has lived in Geneva, Melbourne, Tokyo and Luxembourg before settling in Baselland with her family. After years of learning foreign languages, she got coaxed into teaching EFL.

 Kim Bisson

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Kim moved to Switzerland in 2003 from Canada. After completing the CELTA she started teaching business and medical English. She is married with three daughters.

Gabrielle Schiegg-Cleary

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A New Zealander by birth, Gabrielle moved to Switzerland in 1986. A change of country led to a move into the world of ESL teaching.

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.

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Sarah Lovegrove PRALONG has a BA Honours degree from the University of Wales and received her CELTA from ASC International House. After early assignments in Corsica and Andorra, she has been a freelance ESL teacher for adults and children in Geneva since 2004. She is fully bi-lingual and is currently teaching young learners (5-8 years) at the Institut International Notre Dame du Lac and is preparing to become co-director of Hands-on-English in 2011. She is married and has two daughters.

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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!)

   Ruth Benvegnen

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Born in England, Ruth moved to Switzerland for work in 1987. Fully bilingual, she has been running her own successful English language scool for young learners around the Lausanne area since 1995. She has 20 years' experience i EFL, 10 years' experience as a teacher trainer and is now finishing her MA in teaching English to young learners with York University. She has been a member of ETAS since 1997 and regional coordinator since 2009.

Fiona Emms

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Scottish by birth, Fiona rew 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 woked for a private language school, mostly in-company, since 1999.

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Kirsten Meier

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Kirsten was born in Switzerland and raised bilingually. She lived in Philadelphia for eight years, where she taught ESL and earned an M.A. in TESL (West Chester University). She was a board member of PennTESOL-East, the eastern Pennsylvania affiliate of TESOL, and chaired the Adult Education Interest Section from 2004 until 2007. Kirsten loves Swiss chocolate and British humour.

Paul Raper

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Paul grew up in Oxted, England, where he studied construction engineering and worked in industry, before moving to Switzerland at the end of 1999. This also involved a career-change to become an English teacher, and in 2009, he completed an MSc degre at Aston University (UK) in Teaching English for Specific Purposes. He currently works for the HSR Rapperswil and runs his own English language school in Weinfelden. Special interests are corpus linguistics.

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 major in Geography and Environmental Science, she moved to Switzerland where she married a Swiss-Czech. With his work, the family lived in the French and German regions and Omsk, Russia before finally settling in the sunny Italian region of Tessin. Speaking Portuguese, Frencdh and Italian, she thought it would be interesting to be the teacher instead of the student, Nicole began teaching at a language school 10 years ago and after moving around, decided to teach privately.

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  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.