Our Speakers

Veríssimo Toste is a teacher and international teacher trainer. He has a Master’s Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University of Edinburgh. He is also a qualified Primary teacher for the Department for Education in the UK. He has been an EFL/ESL teacher and teacher trainer for over 35 years, teaching students from 3 to 93 years old in all levels. As a teacher trainer, he has worked for various institutions in over 50 countries, including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and the Portuguese Ministry of Education. Veríssimo’s interests include using readers to learn English, and he is fascinated by how students learn naturally. Believing that being a teacher is the best job in the world, he enjoys talking to teachers about their experiences in the classroom.