{"id":17718,"date":"2021-10-29T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/blog\/anniversary-ihmadrid\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:32:12","slug":"anniversary-ihmadrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/blog\/anniversary-ihmadrid.html","title":{"rendered":"IH Madrid celebrates 40 years teaching languages (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today we\u2019re meeting Alex Bishop, who\u2019s currently our director of operations and extracurricular classes in school.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alex started at International House as a student on the Cambridge CELTA course back in 1999. A year later, he started teaching, and over the past 20 year he\u2019s taught in all of our schools, and been in just about every position within the company (teacher, coordinator, director of studies, and director of various areas!).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He reminisces that when he first started teaching in the \u2018dark ages\u2019, he had to use overhead projectors (OHP) and that a lot has changed since then from having projectors in the classrooms, to using Zoom for online classes and hybrid classes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alex is also responsible for hiring new English teachers, and he\u2019s particularly proud of having interviewed about 500 people (most of our current English teachers were appointed by Alex!), and meeting and getting to know some fantastic teachers &#8211; new and old.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We asked him about the funniest time at IH and he fondly remembers an anecdote that he loves the carnival parties with the extravagant costumes &#8211; but he doesn\u2019t divulge too much detail as it might incriminate him&#8230;!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full inteview with Alex:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"IH Madrid 40 a\u00f1os ense\u00f1ando idiomas (4)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HYEb8ZqCJJY?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re meeting Alex Bishop, who&#8217;s currently our director of operations and extracurricular classes in school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[738,753,903,908,904],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language-school-in-madrid","category-english-school-in-madrid","category-history-international-house","category-ih-madrid-team","category-spanish-school-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36742,"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718\/revisions\/36742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-devihmadridcom-dev2.kinsta.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}