About the Top Hatters!

 

Paul Van Aalen

A born traveller, Paul settled in the Netherlands after travelling and learning languages and cultures around Europe. After leaving the Netherlands at the age of 18 with one rucksack. He returned in 2009, with a container full of things, a wife, a dog, a cat and a baby daughter.

5 years later after working in customer services in several well known businesses in the Netherlands, such as Phillips and KPN. Paul decided to devote his career to his passions: people and teaching.

Paul is a qualified English trainer, and has taught English for the last ten years in language centres and in businesses such as IKEA and Banco Santander.

" I am a real people person. I love speaking and talking to everyone so what better way to do this than to teach both young and old a new language"

 

English for Teaching Purposes course - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Diploma in Teaching skills for Educators - Global Text Project

Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching course - University Southampton

 

 

 

 

 

Rosalind Van Aalen Grant

Having lived in Spain, in the Canary Islands from the age of 11 and then later again for most of her life, moving to the Netherlands was quite a culture shock. Rules, regulations and grey clouds don’t exist in the Canary Islands.

When asked the question Where do you come from? Rosalind struggles to come up with an answer, so apparently this makes her a TCK (third culture kid).

After moving to France with a backpack. Rosalind picked up her husband on the Arc de Triomphe and found herself 10 years later moving to the Netherlands, where she now works as an English lecturer at Avans Hogeschool in Breda.

Rosalind is a qualified Spanish and English teacher.

"I love to put my love of my countries into my lessons and share the passion I have with my 'real 'home country. "

 

 Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of other languages - ACDTEC

Graduate Diploma in Spanish Teaching - University Dundee

Understanding IELTS, Cambridge examinations ... - British Council

Masters in Digital Technology and Communication in Education - University of Manchester