Rose Anne Nassif Travers
Teacher and Owner
Rose has a Bachelor's Degree in Music from Boston University with a minor in French. Moving to Switzerland in 1991, she later attained her CELTA in 1995 to launch her teaching career when moving from Geneva to Zurich.
Over the years, she has worked for Swissair in the USA and Switzerland in customer service and sales roles while later holding administrative positions for IATA in Geneva and as well as a Training Designer for the former telecom company, diAx 1998-2000.
In the year 2000, Rose took steps to make a long held dream of owning a language school come true and founded The Boston School. She feels fortunate to be able to assist students to fulfill their language potential and subsequently support them in meeting their career goals by providing English courses to suit their needs - whether it is coaching them in presentation skills for international events or teaching grammar to pass a Cambridge exam.
Nicola Feyen - Aargau
Teacher - Business & General English
Nicola is British and grew up on the outskirts of London. She has lived in Switzerland since October 2004.
Since receiving her TEFL certificate in 1998, Nicola has taught English to children, teenagers and adults of all levels. Her work experience includes teaching children in Romania and China and business people in Germany.
After gaining a Bachelor’s degree in Geography at Southampton University, she completed a Masters degree in “Social and Cultural Geographies” at the University of Sheffield. With her strong interest in culture, she views cultural awareness as an integral part of being fully conversant in a language.
She enjoys the challenge of developing fluency, accuracy and confidence in her students and always aims to make language learning fun.
THE BOSTON SCHOOL TEACHERS
The Boston School Bahnhaldenstrasse 32 8052 Zürich 044 310 30 38
Miruna Smith - Zurich
Teacher - Business English Cambridge Exams and
American Certificates: TOEFL & GMAT
Miruna Smith qualifies as a "Citizen of the World" having lived in the US, the UK, Romania and Switzerland and being able to work in 6 different languages. This gives Miruna extensive insights into effective language learning and cultural diversity that allows her to tailor her teaching approach on a personal basis to achieve each individual's learning objectives.
To add further support to this, Miruna has an extensive education and training in teaching English as a second language as well as several years working in a corporate environment (IBM and Kraft Foods) that gave her insights into the use of English in business situations. She holds a MA in TESOL from Oxford Brookes University and a CELTA from Cambridge University, as well as a BA and MA in Eastern European Languages and Literature. Additionally, she has a Certificate in Intercultual Training.
Miruna strongly believes that learning English opens doors to the world and strives to make learning interesting, innovative and fun.
