User:Makave
My Life[edit | edit source]
Introduction[edit | edit source]
Born in the city of Bogotá,in 1971, she was interested from an early age in issues regarding education. Her calling for teaching was influenced by her own experience as a foreign student in an English speaking country. Upon returning to her country ,she entered the Universidad Nacional de Colombia to pursue a career in Psychology. During this time, she began to teach English as a Second Language (ESL)at various language institutes and as a private tutor. In 1995, she took a break from this activity to have a family. Later, she began to work as a high school ESL teacher at different schools of Bogotá. Nowdays, she is following a graduate program in Bilingual Education with which she hopes to link her profession to her area of work.
Current work[edit | edit source]
She is currently working as Head of the English Department at a private school in Bogota, the capital of Colombia. Additionally, she teaches a reading and writing workshop in English in middle and high school grades of the same school.