Teaching Staff - International School of Tallinn

Araceli Rojo

Sep 13, 2022

Araceli was born in Valladolid, Spain. She graduated in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Salamanca and in Law from the University of Valladolid. She also holds a Master Degree in Translation and Interpreting in Public Services, and her final master thesis was selected to be presented at the European Commission Translation Studies Days in Brussels in 2012.

After working as a translator, interpreter, bank lawyer and language teacher in private academies, she decided to focus her career in school teaching. In 2019 she became Spanish language teacher at the IB International School of Gabon Ruban Vert. In order to complement her training, she is currently studying for a Degree in Early Years and Primary Teaching.

Passionate of languages, Araceli is bilingual in Spanish and French and has a good level of English and German. And she is currently learning Estonian.

In her free time, Araceli likes to spend time with her family, travel and enjoy a cup of coffee while reading a good book.

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Riina Tamm

Aug 23, 2022

Riina was born and raised in Estonia.

She has her BA degree in Early Years teaching from University of Tartu. And her MA (cum laude) in Counselling in Special Education from Tallinn University.

She started her teaching career in 2015. Before joining IST, she was teaching in kindergarten for 7 years, working with children aged 3-7. She believes that in early years, children learn best through play. When teaching, she uses a lot of playful approaches to reach academic achievements. In teaching, Riina values creating a safe environment and building trustful relationships, she enjoys art, creativity and robotics.

In summertime, she has helped organise English languages camps for Estonian youth.

In her spare time, Riina enjoys good music, spending quality time with friends and being in nature. She also likes different cultural events (concerts, theatre).

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Dragan Jovanovic

Aug 23, 2022

Dragan comes from Serbia and he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy Nis in 2012. In addition, he has got two TKT certificates, Young Learners and Module 1.

He has been working as a teacher since 2013. He came to Estonia in 2019 and prior to that he was working in Serbia and China. So far he has taught different age groups from kindergarten students to adults, with most of his experience in primary years.

He is very passionate about sports, especially football and he possesses UEFA B football coaching license.

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Todd Campbell

Aug 23, 2022

Todd has his B.A.(TESL) and B.Ed. from Brock University in St.Catharines, Ontario and his M.Ed from Framingham University in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in Canada and began teaching English to immigrants there 28 years ago. In 1999 he began his international teaching career in Monterrey, Mexico. After almost 20 years there, he moved to tiny, tropical Brunei. In 2022, he was given the opportunity to join the IST team, and see the seasons change for the first time in over two decades. Todd believes that building character and integrity is essential in education and cannot wait to share his experience with his students and learn from his fellow teachers here in Estonia.

In his spare time he likes to play sports, go hiking and see live music.

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