Yolanda Álvarez is a primary school teacher who graduated with a minor in English in 2000. She is currently a class teacher and an English teacher in fifth and sixth grades at Les Llisses School, and mentors student-teachers who do an internship in her school. She has taken courses on how to teach children in multilingual milieus and on how to integrate language and contents. Thanks to that, she applies the principles of project-based learning in her lessons. She has been a member of the A+ Project team since it was founded.
Carol Barriuso has been an English teacher for the last ten years. She is currently working at Escola Rosa Oriol Anguera, a primary school sited in the town of Lliçà d’Amunt and is an adjunct professor at University of Barcelona. She is also a national eTwinning ambassador. She was a counsellor for European Projects at the Servei de Llengües estrangeres i d’Origen in the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya. As a teacher trainer she works for APAC-Rosa Sensat, eTwinning and European Schoolnet. She co-authors a MOOC on “Social Media Literacy 4 Change”. She participated in a research group of the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Barcelona in the projects entitled Flipped Classrooms (2016-2017) and Integrated curriculum (2017-2018). She has been a member of the A+ Project team since it was founded and one of its co-leaders since September 2019.
Maribel Gomáriz is a primary teacher with ample experience as a class teacher and as a teacher of English as a foreign language. She has participated in several co-teaching projects in elementary schools in Catalonia and wrote about her experience in a chapter of the book Joint efforts for innovation: working together to improve foreign language teaching in the 21st century. She has participated twice in APAC’s Annual ELT Convention. In 2019 with a conference on PBL and in 2020 with a workshop on digital tools applied to the teaching of English as a foreign language. She is currently working at Escola Nostra Llar (Sabadell). She has been a member of the A+ Project team since it was founded.
Elisabet Guitart is a primary school teacher, specialised in English and Early Years at University of Girona. She also holds a Postgraduate Certificate Diploma in Early Childhood at Oxford Brookes University, England. She has been teaching for eleven years, five of them working in the United Kingdom as an English Teacher in a Primary State School. For the past three academic years, she has been working as an English Teacher at Institut Escola El Viver in Montcada i Reixac. This academic year she joined A+ Project team.
David López Ferrairó is a primary teacher of English as a foreign language. He graduated from the University of Valencia in 2001. In 2003 he came to Catalonia and started to work as an English teacher. He taught at several state schools for the last 17 years. He is currently working as a class teacher at Enric Tatché i Pol in Ripollet del Vallès (Barcelona). In 2007, thanks to a grant from the Catalan Government, he took a ten-week CLIL course at Telford University (England), run by Dr. Diana Hicks. He loves learning and sharing. He has been a member of the A+ Project team since it was founded.
Dolors Masats is the co-leader of A+ project team and a founding member of the Research Centre on Plurilingual Interaction and Teaching (GREIP) and of the International Association on Éducation et Diversité Linguistique et Culturelle (EDiLiC). She has ample experience as a teacher of Catalan, English & Spanish as foreign languages in a great variety of contexts. She is currently a teacher trainer, a senior lecturer and a researcher at the Faculty of Education of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where she leads and participates in school-based research & innovation projects. She also works as a curriculum advisor for the Ministry of Education & Youth of Govern d’Andorra and as materials designer. Plurilingual education and project-based learning are her main areas of expertise.
Íngrid Picola is currently working as an in-service primary teacher at Turó de Can Mates, in the town of Sant Cugat del Vallès. She has been teaching English to primary and kindergarten pupils in different state schools around Catalonia for many years. She also worked as a Catalan teacher for young students in various state high schools. She participates in a Seminar for English teachers in Sant Cugat del Vallès. She has been a member of the A+ Project team since it was founded.
Cristina Rodríguez Gómez is a primary school teacher who graduated with a minor in English in 2006. She has been working as an English teacher for 12 years and she is currently a first grade class teacher at Institut Escola El Viver in Montcada i Reixac. She has taken courses on how to integrate language and contents. She is also part of a Rosa Sensat group which reflects, shares and investigates global approaches to learning. She has been leading different English projects in her school , such as PELE in 2008-2011 and now GEP training (with another colleague). She has been a member of the A+ Project team since it was founded.
Esther Serramià obtained a bachelor’s degree in Elementary School in 2004 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Plurilingual Education by UNESCO in the same year (ICE UB 2004). She is currently studying a Master’s degree on e-Learning at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She has worked as an English teacher for twelve years, three of them in the USA. She also worked as an in-service English teacher trainer at Martí l’Humà foundation for one year and as a pre-service teacher trainer and researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) for two academic years. As a coordinator of a research group at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Barcelona, she led the projects Flipped Classroom (2016-2017) and Integrated curriculum (2017-2018). Esther is currently a teacher and a member of the managing board of Institut Escola Pla de l’Avellà in Cabrera de Mar. She has been a member of the A+ Project team since it was founded.