Our team and teachers

Katarína Lovíšková riaditeľka jazykovej školy

Katarína Lovíšková Managing Director

Gabriela OndušováDirector of Studies for other Languages

Laura Bíró Director of Studies for English, CELTA tutor

Matthew McGeeverDirector of Studies for English, CELTA tutor

Katarína HrtánkováAssistant Director of Studies for Young Learners

Diarmuid HoranSenior Teacher

Sean BoudreauSenior Teacher

Filip KšenzulákErasmus+ Coordinator

Daniela MozolákováOffice Manager

Silvia Brziaková Heldová - Marketing Manager

Silvia BrziakováMarketing Manager

Lucia Tvrdoňová - manažérka firemných kurzov

Lucia TvrdoňováCorporate Course Manager

Monika KrnáčováCorporate Course Manager

Miriam JarábkováExam Manager for Cambridge Exams

Marcela OlexováPublic Course Manager

Vivien FilipováFront Office

Soňa DudičováFront Office

Vanda Funtíková Registration office

Tamara MrázikováRegistration office

Ema StupavskáRegistration office

Terezia Petriskova - Manažérka jazykových kurzov

Terézia PetriskováRegistration office

Our Teachers

We employ more than 100 teachers in our language school.

One of the conditions of IHWO membership is a high quality team of teachers and employing only qualified teachers.

How do we hire the teachers and what are the criteria?

teachers are hired by the DOS (Director of Studies)
teachers must meet a set of demanding requirements (qualification, experience, references, interview)
we also use the teachers exchange in form of a transfer within the IHWO network
foreign teachers must have a higher education degree (at least Bachelor’s degree) and they are required to have passed an
internationally recognised methodology course.
Slovak teachers have a higher education degree in pedagogical field (masters)

Our teachers possess a wide range of educational skills, many of them are methodologists or Cambridge exams examiners and they participate in educational conferences as speakers and tutors for other teachers. They bring new innovative methods to their classes, using various resources. The IHWO network puts a lot of emphasis on further teacher education.

Internationally recognised methodological courses include:

CELTA - University of Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Adults
Cert Tesol - The Trinity Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
IHC - International House Certificate in TEFL
DELTA - (Cambridge ESOL Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults)
TrinityDip TESOL - (Trinity College London Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)

Further teacher development within International House World Organisation (IHWO)
IH World Organisation offers their teachers an educational programme (Professional Development Pathway), designed to support their long-term professional and methodological growth, in more than 150 schools all over the world. According to a new educational system within IH, teachers are credited based on the specialised courses they pass and after collecting prescribed number of credit points they awarded an ATA (The Advanced Teaching Award) IH Certificate. Many of our teachers (both foreign and Slovak) are already approaching obtaining of the ATA certificate after passing some of the following courses:

IH Teaching One-to-One
IH Certificate in Online Tutoring
IH Certificate in Teaching Business English
IH Certificate in Advanced Methodology
IH Certificate in Teaching Young Learners