David Briggs
Dave is an experienced CELTA tutor, who has delivered CELTA courses in Oxford, the United States, Spain, and Ireland, over the last 25 years. He taught English in Greece and Japan before settling in Oxford. During his time in Oxford, he has worked with refugee children at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, as well as teaching on the linguistics module at Oxford Brookes University. He is an inspector for the University of Cambridge, ensuring standards are being met for CELTA courses around the world, for both remote and in-person delivery. Dave’s work in the industry has also led to him being a published English as a Foreign Language author. In his free time, he enjoys reading detective stories, gardening, and being taken for a walk by his stubborn and determined rescue dog from Greece.
Devon Krohn
Devon has been working in English Language Teaching for 28 years. She has worked in Germany, Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Earlier in her career, she started out teaching English as a Foreign Language before moving into educational management when she passed her DELTA in 2000. She worked as Assistant Director of Studies responsible for Young Learners and General English in Budapest, after which she moved into CELTA and DELTA training. She has also carried out Content and Language Integrated Learning teacher training courses with Kazakh STEM teachers and has written teacher training workshops focusing on the development of writing and speaking skills for Cambridge Assessment. She has been a Cambridge examiner and CELTA assessor for 14 years. Her MA TESOL thesis explored the role of decoding listening skills in English as a Foreign Language course books. In her free she enjoys quizzing, travelling, and taking pictures of trees on nature walks. Among her other achievements, she speaks English, French, German and a little Hungarian.
Simon Cox
Simon started his career in English Language Teaching in 1994 in Hungary, where he worked as a primary school teacher. Over 30 years, he has worked in more than 10 countries. Much of his time was spent in Asia – especially in Thailand, Vietnam, India, and China. As a teacher, examiner, teacher-trainer, and academic manager, he has broad experience of English Language Teaching in a wide range of contexts: from working on oil rigs in Azerbaijan, to teaching toddlers in a Lithuanian kindergarten, as well as managing a teacher-training centre in Shanghai for nearly 10 years. These days he spends most of his time as Main Course Tutor and Assessor/Examiner for Cambridge English teacher qualifications, such as CELTA and DELTA. He holds a Trinity Dip TESOL and an MA in Educational Management. His current publication and conference presentation interests are for ‘sense-making’ in complex educational environments. When he is not working, he is usually on a bicycle. He is a keen advocate for safer cycling infrastructure in the UK and helps to provide cycle training for adults.