Personnel

Maire Aarsalu
director, Estonian teacher, translator

EDUCATION

2001 – 2002 University of Tartu, diploma cum laude, MA (written translation)
1997 – 2000 University of Tartu, retraining course of English teachers (certificate)
1988 – 1993 University of Tartu, Faculty of Philosophy, painting (diploma)
1980 – 1985 University of Tartu, Faculty of Biology and Geography, biology and chemistry (diploma)

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
21 – 25 September 1992, Philippines, PACEM Language Coordinators Conference
May 1992, Jurmala, Latvia, United States Peace Corps Estonian teachers’ training (certificate)
Participation in several continuing education courses of communicative language learning directed at teachers of foreign languages

WORK EXPERIENCE

Teaching Estonian as a second language since 1992.
Sixteen years of experience in written translation.

Airi Vasar
English teacher, translator

EDUCATION

2001 – 2002 Tallinn Pedagogical University, majoring in English Philology, minor: English teacher (diploma)
1980 – 1985 University of Tartu, biology and chemistry (diploma)

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

2003 – English Language Service – Teaching Business English
Further Certificate of Teaching Business English.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Fourteen years of experience as an English teacher and translator.

Svetlana Starikovitš
Russian and Estonian teacher

EDUCATION

2013-2016 Tallinn University, andragogy (diploma)

Tiina Köömnemägi
Estonian teacher

EDUCATION

1980 - 1989 University of Tartu, Master's degree in Estonian philology

Julia Vilde
Estonian teacher

EDUCATION

1999 - 2001 Tallinn Pedagogical University, teacher of Estonian language as a foreign language

Alo Aarsalu
art teacher

EDUCATION

1988 – 1993 Konrad Mägi painting studio (diploma)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Ten years of experience in instructing an art studio in Tartu Children and Youth House.