Teaching English is what I’ve been doing for 25 years and it is what I try to improve everyday.

I started teaching English in a primary school. It was really very hard and at the same time challenging because there weren’t any materials suitable for young learners. So, I decided to attend ELT courses, reading and researching into a more suitable approach to teaching. I started co-ordinating seminars and giving courses organized by different institutions.

Some years later, the educational reform was introduced in Spain, and I spent two years going round Catalonia as a teacher trainer

I needed to go back to school again, a rural one, where I started to teach English through PE to six to eight year olds. I participated in a project co-ordinated by the Resource Centre of Foreign Languages of Catalonia investigating ways of improving methodologies for ELT.

As I needed time to write, I then asked for a secondment to write materials for the introduction of English to six-year olds through three approaches: curricular, through PE and through cross-curricular themes.

I’m currently working as an English teacher in IES el Foix, www.xtec.cat/ieselfoix/ , 50 kilometres from Barcelona, where I’m trying to introduce ICT in my teaching and learning practice as a way of bringing together the real world and the needs of my students.  I find my job a motivating one, full of surprises and challenges.  Pupils give me energy and clues for better teaching practice.

Writing Minibus and Bugs has been enjoyable, rewarding and great fun.