BT Rio Chapter Podcast Episode 7 - Being a teacherpreneur (in Rio)

BT Rio Chapter Podcast

About the speakers

Sandro Dwarffy is a licensed Spanish language teacher, TOEFL Trainer, digital entrepreneur and founder of both Global English 4U and TOEFL Success. Sandro has fallen in love with foreign language teaching in the early 2000s and has been a TEFL teacher for over 15 years. Sandro is based in Rio de Janeiro and has been mainly delivering online TOEFL prep training and other language learning solutions as a freelance language tutor. His strengths lie in his ability to build rapport with adult learners, meet their educational needs, updated teaching expertise, CPD, strategic intelligence, focus on results and excellent interpersonal skills. Sandro Dwarffy holds the CAE, CPE, TKT Modules 1-3 certificates (Cambridge, UK) and a C2 level D.E.L.E. certificate (Instituto Cervantes, Spain).

Rafael Costa, an English Teacher since 2011, has worked as a Coordinator at Wise Up for 4 years. He is about to graduate in "Letras". English Teacher at Seminário e Educandário Nossa Senhora do Amor Divino and Owner of "Speak Up Language Course". He is from Petrópolis - RJ and holds the ECCE / TKT Modules 1, 2, 3.

About the topic

1. Do you define yourself as a teacherpreneur?

2. What made you decide to run your own show?

3. When did you get the feeling that you had made the right decision?

4. How do you find the time to invest in your professional development?

5. What other skills have you developed and courses have you taken that have helped you as a teacherpreneur?