Hello,I'm Mihaela and I’m a qualified English language teaching professional with over 20 years of international experience. I hold the Cambridge CELTA and DELTA (with Distinction), along with a specialization in Business English from 2016. My work has taken me from classroom teaching to senior leadership roles, including Director of Studies, Assistant DoS, and Study Centre Manager.

I've taught in high-end institutions like Kaplan International and EC English in Dublin, Ireland, and worked with U.S.-based software clients to deliver customized business English training. I’ve led teaching teams in both online and in-person settings, including fast-paced summer programs, and have built a portfolio of professional one-to-one clients, designing personalized learning paths to meet their specific goals.

Alongside teaching, I specialize in course design for professional communication and academic exam preparation. Whether I'm managing a team or working directly with learners, I’m driven by clarity, purpose, and helping people communicate with confidence.

And when AI showed up in my classroom, I had two immediate reactions: this changes everything and no one’s explaining how to use it without losing our minds.

So I built something I wish I’d had.

Firstly, I realised AI is going to revolutionise our industry, it’s not just a trend, it’s here to stay. That’s why I created the Foundations Course, "Language Teaching with AI for Critical Thinking". I needed to be ready and up-skill to meet the challenge, , so I intensely began to learn about AI and how to integrate it into my teaching.

The more I understood about the effectiveness of AI in language teaching, the less I was afraid of it and the more excited I got seeing the opportunities it offered.

AI makes it simple for information to come to us in a much more structured and reasoned format. It distills information that would normally take a student hours to find and formulate into a 2 minute exercise. However, the student has a greater challenge now, in that they need to access their critical thinking skills more easily, to be able to use all this information and put their voice to it.

In short, it’s about turning AI from a shortcut into a catalyst as critical thinking skills will become one of the most important skills to develop in the coming age of AI, not just in learning languages but across all fields of knowledge. I believe in staying ahead of the curve.

Let’s teach better. Together.