Our Teachers
All British Side teachers have the internationally recognised CELTA qualification (Cambridge University, Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) and at least 2 years of teaching experience. In addition many have the DELTA qualification (Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults)
The British Side team of teachers below is made up of qualified, experienced,
native-speaker teachers as you can see from their descriptions below.
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Sally Gayford
Teaching and Academic Management Experience: 12 years, Turkey, United Kingdom, India
Profile: Sally is British Side’s Academic Director. Sally became a teacher of English in 1996 and after management posts at the British Council Turkey and India, Sally now directs all aspects of our language courses
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Elif-Liz Cesar
Teaching Experience: 6 years, Italy and Turkey
Profile: Elif is a former British Council teacher of English and has been at British Side since the start after 2 years working in the former British Council teaching centre.
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Matt Lemon
Teaching Experience: 3 years, England and Turkey
Profile: Matt has been working at British Side since 2007 and is also an authorised University of Cambridge ESOL examiner.
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Guy Harvold
Teaching Experience: 8 years, England and Turkey
Profile: Guy returned to Istanbul to work for British Side in 2007 as a teacher and as an authorised University of Cambridge ESOL examiner. .
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Katherine Hunter
Teaching Experience: 4 years, England and Turkey
Profile:
Katherine has been working in Istanbul for 4 years having previously taught in the south of England and gaining her Cambridge ESOL teaching qualification in 2004.
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Theresa Fee
Teaching Experience: 6 years, South Korea, China, Italy, Ireland, Australia & Turkey.
Profile:
Theresa qualified as an English language teacher at the University of Liverpool in 2002 and has since worked in Ireland, South Korea, China, Italy, Australia and now Turkey.
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: Laura Woodward
Teaching and Academic Management Experience: 21 years, Turkey, United Kingdom, Middle East, Thailand
Profile:
Laura Woodward is British Side’s teacher Training Manager, designing and delivering British Side’s range of University of Cambridge ESOL and in-house teacher training courses to teachers in the Istanbul region. Laura has previously performed the same post for the British Council in the middle and Far East and most notably in İstanbul.
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