Maria-Araxi Sachpazian

Maria-Araxi Sachpazian holds a BA in Education from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the CEELT II, and the RSA Diploma for Overseas Teachers of English (with three distinctions) from the University of Cambridge. She has taught English since 1992 and has worked in various foreign language schools. In 2005, she began training teachers and later founded Input on Education (IoE), offering academic support and management services for language schools. In 2016, she launched Input for Teachers, focusing on teacher development and placement.

She has delivered seminars for TESOL Macedonia-Thrace, PALSO, EUROPALSO, IATEFL, IATEFL Poland, and IATEFL-BETA Bulgaria. In 2017, she received the IATEFL LAM SIG scholarship for her session in Glasgow. A long-time TESOL Macedonia-Thrace member, she currently serves as Chair, having previously served as Secretary General and Vice Chair. Maria has published with Macmillan, Burlington, and Pearson Longman, and is currently an external teacher trainer for Oxford University Press.

• Introduction to the methodology of language teaching
• Evaluation and design of Teaching Materials

• The construction of the ”teacher-self” (the process of identity formation in teachers)
• Aspects of educational marketing & management
• Teacher education & development
• Mentoring Teachers
• Teaching reading (first reading/writing and reading comprehension)
• Brain-friendly teaching

Sachpazian, M. A. & Papachristou, V. (2019). Teacher identities: a study in the construction of the teacher- self in Greece. In Can,C., Patsala, P. and Tatsioka, Z. (Eds). Contemporary means and methods in ELT and Applied Linguistics. Athens: LIF, Language in Focus, pp. 445-463.

Sachpazian, M. A. (2019). Overcoming the speaking headache: a speaking project idea. Humanising Language Teaching, 21(2)  Available at: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue22/fitch_index.html

Sachpazian, M.A.(2017). Cognitive distortions and the LTO manager. In Pattison, T. ed. The 51st IATEFL Conference Selections, Glasgow, 4-7 April, pp.34-35.

Sachpazian, M.A.(2013). Assessing the unassessed or the Unassessible: issues of school evaluation in Pattison, T. ed. The 47th IATEFL Conference Selections, Liverpool, 8-12 April, pp. 191-192.

Sachpazian, M. A. (2011). The consultancy Corner in ELT News. Athens: ELT NEWS (Monthly series of articles that run from 2011 to 2021).