Just a quick word about the two tutors for my class. J?em is the lead tutor on the course and Roger is the "assistant" tutor. It's silly that Cambridge University insist on these labels because both men have 20+ years of EFL teaching and school admin experience. They are both very nice, incredibly smart men who are good teachers with great senses of humor.
If you're interested, here's photos of them:
![[image: Roger Hunt]](http://www.ihes.com/bcn/tt/images/photoroger4.jpg) | ![[image: J?em Heath ?Ryan]](http://www.ihes.com/bcn/tt/images/photojaem.jpg) | |
| Roger Hunt | J?em Heath ?Ryan |
I am fortunate because my flatmate, James (not shown here), has a different set of tutors who seem to have created a much more intensive environment the way they teach the course. Both of my tutors have said that while this is an intensive course, but it doesn't need to be ridiculously stressful if we learn to manage things and get them done on time.
J?em has been my tutor for my first two weeks of teaching practice with the intermediate students. Next week my teaching group (six of us) makes the switch to Roger's class where we'll be teaching advanced beginners under his direction. It should be very interesting to make the shift from intermediate grammar and a broad vocabulary to an almost remedial vocabulary and very limited sentence construction abilities. Of course J?em and Roger have their own, unique approaches to teaching, so it will be good experience to learn from someone else's style. In many ways this will be a mild example of how the "real world" works, where EFL teachers end up picking up hours teaching at several different schools and therefore for different directors of studies who each think their approach is the best. Not too different from managing VPs in corporate America.
