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Staff

 

Meet our staff!

Tasoula Antoniou Katsiami: Managing Director

Tasoula Katsiami (Dip TEFL, BA TEFL, MA Education, PhD Candidate) teaches English for exams to high school students as well as English for Adults at U-learn.  She has had a very long experience in the education field starting from the UK, as part of her teaching training.  She worked at Pakeman and Coleridge Primary school as a teaching assistant and at Westminster College as an EFL teacher for levels A1-B1. After graduating in 1991, she was employed at College Melkart, Limassol Cyprus in the primary sector.  From 1993 to 2009 she continued her career as a primary 3rd grade teacher at St Mary’s school, Limassol, Cyprus, a private language school in Cyprus.  At the same time she has had various publications in education magazines (Junior Focus, Teaching Primary) on the independence of language learning, on motivating techniques for young learners and on what is motivation for teenage learners.  She is a member of the Cyprus Teachers of English Association (CyTea) and International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. (IATEFL).  She is also a Speaking Examiner for the Cambridge IELTS. In 2009 she founded her own private institute, U-Learn Education Centre. She has been an active teacher-educator and has always managed to be updated with the profession as she has always attended various seminars, webinars, workshops, lectures, education fairs, both locally and abroad. Learning for life is her motto and during her teaching, she takes every opportunity to allow students ownership and autonomy of learning.

“Every day is a school day for all of us”, as she believes, yet, she aims to offer successful and stimulating education to everybody.

 

Stavria Michael

Stavria Michael is teaching Computer at U-Learn Education centre. She graduated from European University of Cyprus in 2012, where she obtained her Bachelors degree in Computer Science. From 2013 she started her career of computer teacher In 2017 she certified by the CTP (Certifies Training Professional) from ECDL. Stavria has been employed by U-Learn since February 2017. She has the ambition of expanding her knowledge by attending seminars and workshops on teaching methods for adults and children. Her motto is “I call my students “my kids” because in our year together they aren’t just kids on my class list, they become a part of my heart.”

 

Raphaella Demetriou

Graduated from Lancaster University in 2014 where she obtained her Bachelors degree in English Language and Linguistics. She has been teaching English at U-learn Education Centre since 2015. She has recently become a certified trainer of vocational training. She attended seminars and workshops on teaching methods for adults and children in order to expand her knowledge and learn new skills. “To teach is to touch a life forever”. Teaching to her must be growth minded and life giving.

 

 

 

Maria Georgiadou

Maria is currently an English Teacher in our institute and conducts Conversation and Speaking groups. Conversation and Skills Classes is the newest addition in our programmes and aims towards both fluency and accuracy for young learners. The programme promotes discussion and critical thinking and highlights the importance of turn-taking and discourse structures.  She aims to assist students enhance their vocabulary through various teaching techniques.

Maria has obtained a degree in English Language and Linguistics and has graduated from the University of Essex. During her studies, she conducted intense research on the Psychology of the Learners and how real life materials can be used in an ESL class.  During 2016 she began teaching as a member of private institutions, teaching English and organizing materials for ages 4-16.  Ever since,  she has learnt to evaluate the path each student as separate and unique. She wishes to adapt materials on learners according to their needs and skills in order for them to progress, feel comfortable and derive the best possible results.

 

 

Svetlana Kavrakova 

Svetlana is a qualified philologist/linguist with more than 15 years of experience in teaching Russian and English to primary and secondary school grades in private institutes, and undertaking freelance private lessons. She is fluent in Russian , Bulgarian , Greek and English. In addition she is a freelance Translator in English and Russian. Acted as interpreter to various clients, such as law firms, property firms and others.
Svetlana teaches Russian to all ages and levels A1, A2, B1 and B2 according to the CEFR standard( Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) in private Institutes in Limassol. She has an experience from the Adult Education Centres, Limassol, Cyprus / Επιμορφωτικά Κέντρα Λεμεσού.

She has obtained a Bachelor  degree of Science – Pedagogy of teaching Russian and English to primary and Secondary school grades, and a Master of Science- Russian Linguistics.