Juan Uribe is a teacher trainer whose passion is studying and sharing how children learn languages affectively through play, games, storytelling, and puppeteering. He has been in an amazing journey visiting language schools for children around the world where he has both conducted teacher development programs as well as enchanted young audiences with Buddy the Frog.
Juan holds a Bachelors degree in Education from the Catholic University in São Paulo (PUC-SP) and a Masters in Education in Human Development and Applied Psychology from the University of Toronto. He writes a blog called Children Learning English Affectively
Lic. María Marta Suárez (UTN) is an ELT teacher, teacher trainer and a coach (Empathic Livelihood Program). Her teaching experience includes large classes at state run schools and universities to small groups in company and at her own language school in Buenos Aires. She also taught abroad to multilingual groups at Cluny Hill College in Scotland. She has worked in Methodology-related subjects at different teacher training colleges in the city of Buenos Aires (ISP J.V. Gonzalez; ISP Comenius; ISP Sagrado Corazón) and delivers teacher development on-line courses to teachers in different countries. She has been a teacher trainer and a presenter at conferences in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain and Uruguay. Her artistic background and her studies of Non-violent Communication has given her the tools to develop a holistic methodology (ALL Method®) and design the material to apply it to teach learners of all age-groups. Today, her star creation –ALL English for Babies®– is being applied in seven countries in Latin America and Europe.
Marian Derfler is a storyteller and an English teacher graduated from ISP in Lenguas Vivas J.R. Fernandez, where she has been an adscripta in “Children’s Literature.” She is currently the Kindergarten and Primary School English Coordinator at San Pablo School in Buenos Aires. She is also an NLP practitioner, a course-book and story writer, and an ALL Method® Teacher Trainer. She has been an English Advisor and Work Pack Designer for BAP (The Buenos Aires Players), and part of English in Action, a program created by Susan Hillyard to teach English to SEN (Special Educational Needs) students in Buenos Aires.
Marian has created Story Fields®, a storytelling experience which she takes to schools and institutes all over the country. Through Story Fields® she has also trained teachers and Teacher Training Students in the Art & Craft of Storytelling all over the country, sharing her stories and her expertise at different Teacher Training colleges, workshops and ex-CePA courses.
Eugenia Dell’Osa graduated as Profesora de Inglés from INSPT – UTN. She has had classroom experience as a Whole Language facilitator for more than 15 years and has also been an English in Action teacher, where she taught English to SEN students in Escuelas de Recuperación from GCBA through Process Drama. She is currently an Educational Consultant and Material Designer for The Buenos Aires Players®; and an Alternative Language Learning® Teacher Trainer and Material Designer. She founded Babies’ Corner, a language school for babies and very young learners. As she is involved in constant research on early learning and the development of pedagogical material she founded Plan Up, to provide teachers with practical hands-on tools and strategies from real experience. She is Deputy Head at a Bilingual Kindergarten in northwest GBA.
