He is a Cambridge English-approved Assessor as well as Tutor for the CELTA award and is also a Delta Module 2 tutor; he also works as an online tutor for the Trinity College London Licentiate Diploma in TESOL. He is a state-qualified secondary school teacher in the UK, is an approved Speaking Examiner for Cambridge English exams, and has worked in English Language Teaching for over twenty years in the UK, Germany and Poland. He is a former coordinator for the Teacher Development Special Interest Group (TDSIG) within the international ELT professional association IATEFL, and he writes about minimalist approaches to teaching and teacher training at http://teachertrainingunplugged.com