Professional Development

Professional memberships

• Mem­ber, Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Teach­ing Eng­lish as a For­eign Lan­guage (IATEFL)
• Mem­ber, TESOL Inter­na­tion­al Association
• Mem­ber, ELTA-Rhine

Recent training & development activities

I am always look­ing for oppor­tu­ni­ties to update my knowl­edge and improve as a teacher and free­lance busi­ness own­er. Here are some of the more recent activ­i­ties that I have par­tic­i­pat­ed in:

• Attract New Clients with a Lead Mag­net, Earn Learn Thrive
• “Adapt­abil­i­ty 2.0 — What do we real­ly need in the Busi­ness Eng­lish class­room?”, Karin Heuert Gal­vao for IATEFL Busi­ness Eng­lish Spe­cial Inter­est Group (BESIG)
• “Gute Lehre” Micro­train­ings, IU Inter­na­tionale Hochschule: 
  • Tipps & Tricks
  • Agile Lehre
  • Prü­fun­gen
• Feed­back und Kor­rek­tur schriftlich­er Texte (“Feed­back and cor­rec­tion of writ­ten texts”), WWU Mün­ster Fortbildung
• “Devel­op your own sys­tem for social media post­ing”, event with Han­nah Yurk and James Liu, PhD, MBA
• Autonomie im Fremd­sprache­nun­ter­richt (“Auton­o­my in for­eign lan­guage lessons”), WWU Mün­ster Fortbildung
• Dozen­tenkon­ferenz, IU Inter­na­tionale Hochschule
• Train­ing in Learn­ing Man­age­ment Sys­tems: “Ein­führung in ILIAS (Basis) für DozentIn­nen des SLZ,” TH Köln
• Rachael Roberts’ “Fes­ti­val of Free­lanc­ing: for Free­lance ELT Pro­fes­sion­als and Busi­ness Own­ers”:
  • Suc­cess Habits for ELT Freelancers
  • What is brand­ing and how can it trans­form my business?
  • Why your mon­ey mind­set matters
  • Why I LinkIn and you should, too
• Webi­nar: “IATEFL Career Guides: How to become a suc­cess­ful freelancer”
• Webi­nar: “IATEFL Career Guides: How to teach online”