Tutors
Eline van Batenburg / Liz Dale / Liz Savage / Max Carbaat / Paul Moeyes / Priscilla Newberry / Tracy Lagas-Gee / Vincent Hernot
Eline van BatenburgA4.18 |
Voorbereiden Werkplekleren, TESOL 1, Structure of English, TESOL 3
Like my colleague Tracy, I am an IDEE graduate; I graduated in Wolverhampton and Amsterdam in 1997. Four years of full-time higher education got me into the swing of things, so I took a Master’s Course at Keele University entitled English Literature & Film: Studies in Text & Gender from which I graduated in 1998. The last qualification I got was the Dutch Grade 1 Teaching Certificate in 2001.
I have spent six years teaching English at a secondary school in Almere. I have taught all levels and all ages. It has been a most enjoyable and educational experience and I am convinced that I will miss working with adolescents very much. Also, I am absolutely amazed at what anyone (both pupils and teachers) can learn in the space of six years. I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, but if teaching is for you, you will have a roller coaster ride of an experience!
From this year onwards, I am involved in all years of the IDEE programme. Because of my experiences in secondary education, you will see me most in Education modules. However, due to my focus on Literature & Linguistics during my studies, I still maintain a keen interest in developing these areas as well. As it stands, I teach Werkplekleren and Metawork in the Foundation Year. In the higher years, I teach TESOL 1 & 3 and Structure of English. And, like all members of staff, I also work as a placement supervisor.
My specific area of interest within the field of education would be best described as task-based learning. A few years ago, I developed a new teaching programme for HAVO/VWO pupils, in which Dutch & English are taught more or less as one subject: ‘language & communication’. The Journal for Language Teachers Levende Talen will run series of articles on this programme in the fall. I have also spoken at various conferences about this project. The next venue will be the HSN Conference at the University of Antwerp on 12 & 13 November (in case you’re interested).
Having seen the dates of graduation, it will probably not surprise you that I am currently the youngest member on staff. I live in Amsterdam and spend my free time doing various sports. I also love cooking, going out for dinner, going to the theatre or seeing a good concert. Lying about and doing absolutely nothing in Vondelpark, drinking or not getting out of bed at all also can be classed as favorite pastimes. I will also confess to reading all kinds of literature whilst fighting over the best space on the sofa with my adorable cat. Oh and I sing. Badly, Paul says!
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Liz DaleA4.18 |
I grew up in the North West of England (Liverpool, Chester, Manchester) where I went to an all-girls grammar school. My family now lives in North Wales, the South East and the South of Britain. I have been living in Amsterdam for 17 years.
I studied English and Drama at the Universty of Exeter. After graduating, I did the OCR preparatory certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Foreign Languages. I then taught in language schools in the South West of Britain for 2 years and took the OCR Diploma in TESOL in 1987, after which I moved to Amsterdam (with my Dutch husband).
I started off teaching general English courses (fluency, Cambridge exams) and English for specific purposes (business, academic English) at a private language school in Amsterdam and wrote teaching materals for Time magazine. I was also an oral examiner for the Cambridge exams until 2000. I moved into Teacher Education in 1992, teaching proficiency courses, methodology and language learning theory. From 2002-2004, I studied psychology part time with the Open University.
My areas of interest are language learning theory and educational psychology. On the IDEE course, I give academic supervision and in 2004/05 will be teaching Independent Study. I am also a member of the EFA research group “The teacher as change agent” and am developing modules for the EFA specialisation in Content and Language Integrated Learning (bilingual education).
I live in Amsterdam during the week and spend weekends and holidays in Vinkeveen, I am married and have 2 children, one at primary school and one starting secondary school in 2004. Outside work and family life, I try to fit in tennis, horse riding, sailing, rowing, yoga, gardening and reading! |
Liz SavageA4.18 |
I was born and studied in Oxford (with a few years of school in between) and during my first university vacation met a guy from Amsterdam playing guitar at a campsite in the south of France. And now I’ve been living and teaching in Holland for nearly thirty years with short spells in Naples, Italy and St Maarten, N.A..
I never really set out to become a teacher and found it quite hard at the beginning but now I’ve come to love it. The best thing is there’s always more to learn. Next year I’ll only be teaching Sociolinguistics, which is all I can fit in next to my tasks as co-ordinator and team-leader of IDEE.
What else I love? The usual things, eating, reading, talking to friends, listening to music, swimming in the sea, but perhaps best of all, the luxury of having the time to just do nothing.
What keeps me in touch with students and their world? Dealing with my twenty-one year old daughter who’s a student too. |
Max CarbaatA4.18 |
Being a teacher was far from my mind when I set out to work after graduating from secondary school. Like many adolescents at the time, I thought that teaching was "not my cup of tea". So I started in a nine-to-five office job, working for various companies.
However, as my working life progressed, I realised that working in an office for the rest of my life was not really going to be very exciting. I had found out that I enjoyed explaining things to people, liked working with people. So I decided to quit my job and go back to studying at a teacher training college. At secondary school, English had always been my favourite subject, and as I had been working in international companies where it was the language of every-day communication, the choice of subject was not very difficult: I decided to study English at a teacher training college.
After graduating from the college, I continued my studies for an MA in English Language and Literature at the Free University in Amsterdam. During that period, I was also fortunate enough to be able to study at Oxford for a year. I had a great time and learned a lot about pubs, punting, rowing, the theatre, films, Mayday, the Bodleian library. And I picked up a few things about language and literature, among them the subject for my MA thesis on W.H. Auden.
Since 1989 I have worked at the EFA (originally Hogeschool Holland), teaching such subjects as grammar, writing skills, oral proficiency, translation classes, linguistics classes on semantics and sociolinguistics, Modern English Language Studies for the IDEE programme, transformed to How Language Works. I am also involved in academic counselling and placement coordination and supervision. I enjoy my work, and when I’m not working, I love to read (general literature and SciFi, the science supplements of newspapers), listen to music (popular and classical), do crossword puzzles and go to the theatre and the cinema. |
Paul MoeyesA4.18 |
Born 1957 in a non-descript West-Friesian village, true native son.
Educated at Amsterdam and Liverpool University, PhD Amsterdam University 1993.
Role in IDEE: module leader and teacher literature courses
Subject areas: literature and history
Key qualities: Many (see colleagues for details)
Likes: Books (buying, reading & writing); playing the guitar (different styles, indifferent technique – from baroque (German lute music) to American standards (‘Stormy Weather’); food & drink; watching cricket; autumn (stormy weather).
Dislikes: tennis (especially the sound of bouncing tennis balls before service & the grunting; summer (too much sun); endless & brainless mobile phone conversations in public places; Jonathan Woss; travelling; disk-jockeys (see mobile phone conversations); sun (see summer); sound of Bert Kämpfert-like ‘plop’-bass; (to be continued ad infintum).
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Tracy Lagas-GeeA4.18 |
Currently I am one of EfA's teachers on the IDEE course. I have, however, had many past lives as, to name a few, a children's play leader on a double decker bus (great fun), legal secretary (boring), financial consultants' licensing regulator (very challenging), international student (enlightening), and supply teacher (sheer hell). I have lived and worked in the North, South and Midlands of England which explains the strange accent as well as brief stays in Poland, Albania and Tamil Nadu before setlling in Holland. All of these experiences have contributed to the person I am today. I have learnt much about the world but more importantly about the diversification of people in it.
After ten years work and during a "stop the world I want to get off" moment I had the insight to become a teacher. My motivation for doing so was friends working for VSO and being involved myself with The Kings World Trust for Children. I had a vision of teaching in a third world country or setting up a language center in a far flung place, which has not to date been realised but still hangs in front of me as a preverbial carrot. I still maintain a strong interest in the developing world and projects such as "Education for All" by UNESCO. My other professional interests are in TESOL (I got the Diploma in 2000), curriculum development and moral education.
My personal life also connects me with education as my husband is a secondary school teacher trying to persuade brugklas students that English is the best subject in the world (of course). We have two young children, not yet in school, who keep me happy, fit and (sometimes) awake at 3 am. When time allows I also love to keep in touch with old school friends via email, go to the cinema and ballet, and do jazz dancing. I am also currently researching ideas for a parenting magazine and putting together teaching packs for spiritual education for children. I prefer books to computers (favourite author Terry Prachett), love coffee, wine gums, smiles, seahorses and butterflies; hate pink, clutter, computer viruses and chain letters. My sporting interests are cricket, gymnastics and show jumping, all as a spectator these days although I have done all in the past. I also love hill walking and parachuting but think that bungie jumping should be introduced as a form of corporal punishment.
I look forward to meeting you all and getting to know each one of you in time.
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Vincent HernotA4.18/25 |
I have come to The Netherlands by way of Ireland and Belgium, having started my trip in Brittany, France, where I was born. I graduated in English, then thought the better of it and went on studying for a while, ending up writing a PhD in Irish Studies which I had begun while studying in Dublin. My teaching career got off the ground at that time, through lecturing at my University in Caen, Normandy. I then moved here, following the proverbial heart, where I started work at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam in two Institutes. As for the EFA, I have been teaching Reading to Writing Skills to Foundation Year students, as well as Recent World Fiction to Third-years, for the last three years.
I have written a few articles for Journals, all in Irish Studies, and I’ve also participated in various thematic Conferences about…Irish Studies; my input was usually in Political Science and Discourse Analysis from a pragmatic, text-based perspective.
My main interests are varied: Anthropology to know where we come from, Sociology to understand who we are, Political Science to find out how we organise, Linguistics for how we communicate, Sports for the sheer fun of it (generally from the couch: I only practice static sports…), the History of cooking and cookery (and the cooking, eating and drinking too)…
But above all I love music (passively and actively) and Literature, wherever it comes from, and that includes a strong passion for Science-fiction.
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