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Cheryl Drábová (Founder, Managing Director)
Cheryl is an American originally from Chicago and holds a degree in Business with a concentration in Marketing from Loyola University Chicago. During university she studied abroad in Paris and Rome and was never able to shake that European travel itch. After graduating she was off to Europe again landing in Prague this time. Her intentions were to just stay for a year. That was in 1999. She has been recruiting TEFL students for over 11 years now and has helped more than a thousand students prepare for their transition to Prague for their TEFL course and again onto other countries to begin their adventure teaching English overseas. She is also equipped with all the answers to your questions before, during and after your course. In her free time Cheryl enjoys time with her family, travelling, hiking, learning the piano, reading and dining out.
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Hana Novotna (Office Manager)
Hana lived in Asia for about 10 years and travelled a lot throughout her life. She lived in Japan, Jakarta and even Taiwan. She studied mainly at international schools in these countries and learned many languages. During her stay abroad she encountered many different cultures and met a great variety of people. She and her family moved back to Prague in 1998. She graduated from Anglo-American University and holds a Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy. In the future she wants to work for an international think tank that deals with public policy issues. She enjoys playing squash, swimming, going to the cinema and most of all travelling.
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Cara Citraro (Job Guidance Coordinator)
Cara Citraro comes from Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Hiram College, a small private school in Ohio, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, before deciding to move out to Prague. She had studied abroad in Greece during her university studies, and had the burning desire to come back to Europe after she graduated. So, she took the course in February 2009 and has been living and working here ever since. She worked at two different language schools before joining the TEFL team in January 2011. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, traveling, music and spending time with her friends.
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Dan Baines (Teacher Trainer)
Dan holds both a Cambridge CELTA and DELTA and has been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2004. Prior to working at TEFL Worldwide Prague, Dan was Assistant Director of Studies at a large language school in Bratislava, where he was responsible for in-house teacher development and coordination of corporate courses. In this position he taught a number of teacher development courses as well as presenting at numerous methodology conferences for, amongst others, Cambridge University Press. He is also currently a teacher trainer for The Czech Republic for Oxford University Press. When not at work, Dan takes an active interest in music, cookery, literature and sport.
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Kenneth Scott Arnold (Teacher Trainer)
Kenneth Arnold holds degrees in both education and English and has been working in TEFL teaching and training 1997. Originally from St. Louis, he completed his higher education with the Shenker TEFL certificate in Italy and the Cambridge DELTA (Diploma in Teaching English Language to Adults). Kenneth has taught English in various academic areas including University and post-graduation studies. He has taught in various countries over the years including Malaysia, South Bohemia, Italy, Spain and the USA. His experience includes teaching adults from Elementary to Proficiency, young learners, ESP (English for Specific Purposes), Director of Studies, and most recently Military English for NATO. He is also an oral examiner for Cambridge. When not teaching or training, Kenneth enjoys sport, reading and spending time with his young daughters.
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Alena Zelenková (Student Coordinator)
Alena is originally from Ceské Budejovice, a town in the south part of the Czech Republic. She has lived in Prague since beginning her studies in Czech and English philology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University 2009. In her free time, she likes to read, write, watch movies and travel. She hopes to continue her studying as long as possible and to focus on translating literature afterwards.
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Gwyneth Jones (Teaching Practice Observer)
After graduating with a BSc in Psychology from the University of Manchester, Gwyneth spotted a job advert for English teachers in Japan. To her delight, she was given a position teaching children with Interac, and taught English in Hamamatsu, Japan for nearly two years. Bitten with the travel bug, she decided to explore her teaching options, and stumbled upon TEFL Worldwide's website. Coming to Prague for the first time with no job or accommodation, she passed the course with distinction in September 2011 and began teaching adults across the city. Now, when not teaching, she can be found observing lessons, giving feedback and answering your general questions about teaching or living in Prague. She feels extremely lucky to have been given this opportunity, and eventually hopes to channel her advice-giving tendencies into a psychotherapy and life coaching practice. In the rest of her free time, her passions are travelling, blogging, reading and theatre.
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