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Cambridge ESOL is pleased to announce the five winners of their recent English for Schools competition which aimed to find the best stories from English language teachers around the globe. Around 2,000 teachers took up the challenge by writing 150 words on how a teacher development course in Cambridge would benefit them and their students.

"I strongly believe that to keep on learning is the best way of becoming a better teacher," was an example of the type of inspiring words from Argentina’s Monica Eberle – one of the five winning entries.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Monica Eberle, Newlands School and St Michael's College, Argentina

Xuan Hang Le, Tan Hao School, Vietnam

Pei Jin Tsai, Chien-Long Elementary School, Taiwan

Weronkia Salandyk, Szkola Podstawowa Filomata, Poland

Marina Kirichenko, School Gymnzium # 7, Kazakhstan

"The standard of entries received was very impressive," explains Cambridge ESOL’s Marketing Manager for the School Sector, Ian Cook. He continued, "the five winners all showed enthusiasm for their subject, dedication to their students and a desire to learn more."

The winners have been awarded a teacher development course run by Bell in Cambridge in July 2010 and will be residing and studying at Cambridge University's Homerton College. This will not only help them to develop their teaching skills, but will also give them a chance to discover new perspectives and approaches from their peers – as Poland’s Weronkia Salandyk put it:

"No matter how many books or articles I read, the only way for me to develop is to see things from a new perspective, through the eyes of other people and through the words of their experience".

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