Nora Torres Generation 2001-2002

I started teaching when I was 19. It was mainly a hobby since I was studying a degree in Business Administration. When I was 22 I got married and moved to Cuernavaca . My baby was born and I did not work for a year.

I came back to Mexico City and asked for my previous job at Colegio Moderno Tepeyac.

I was teaching 2 nd grade and I had a lot of fun, but I did not feel really satisfied with my achievements. When the invitation from the ANGLO arrived, the General English Coordinator offered everyone the scholarship but only I sent my papers.

The course was tiring, but very funny and fulfilling. I met a lot of people and it refreshed techniques and strategies which I had already forgotten.

The course was on Saturdays, so every Monday my lesson plan contained new techniques, interesting topics, lots of communicative activities and my coordinator noticed it.

The next year, I took the COTE and I was able to participate a lot, to explain things which no one else remembered, to suggest new activities because I had taken this course. Of course my COTE was great and I got excellent results. When the time came to choose a new Primary English Coordinator, my coordinator chose me and last school year (2005-2006) was my debut as a Coordinator.

So do not hesitate and take every opportunity you are given. Good luck!.

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	LUIS MANZANO Generation 2004-2005

I, accidentally, got into teaching. I was not planning on it or anything but one way or another I ended up doing it. At first, I thought it was going to be something temporal, but after 6 years in front of a group I realized it was becoming more like "permanent". Little by little I found that teaching is such a rewarding activity, and I finally felt for it.

Then one day, I heard of an opportunity given at TAMF in terms of giving experienced teachers, who hadn't gotten the chance to receive formal education in English Teaching before a space at the Institution to achieve a degree in teachiong english as a foreign language. So, I went ahead and apply for it, got a full scholarship and some months later got the degree.

It actually has made a big difference. Immediately after I finished, I was promoted to the coordination. This has given me the task of sharing what I learned at TAMF with my collegues at school, training fellow teachers, aswell as newcomers, and also students in the sense of counseling them in what is found more difficult within classes.

In all honesty, I'm very thankfull with TAMF for had given me such aid. Willing to hear from them about more courses, and obviously more people getting as much encouragement as I did get.