Maria is a teacher, teacher trainer and researcher. She has an MA in TESOL, St Michael’s College, Vermont, US and studied for a PhD in Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. She is now completing her Doctorate degree in Athens. She holds an ESRC research award.She has more than twenty years experience in teaching, teacher training and syllabus design in Greece, the UK and the US. She has given a number of talks in conferences all over the world (AAAL, EALTA, ALTE, TESOL among them) and she has been on TESOL Greece Board for 2 years.

Maria strongly believes that teachers need to re-consider their role in education and learn a lot from their learners. She promotes educational values that have to do with freedom of the individual, student-centered methodologies, respect for the rights of children and the student’s voice in the classroom and the community, multicultural and multilingual environments. Maria works against fascism, racism, nationalism, fanaticism, violence and hate speech. She loves learning languages, traveling, tweeting, facebooking, having coffee, eating chocolate and long discussions with friends!

Maria, welcome on board!