Jon De Ath Mercader started his teaching career in 1998 after completing a CELTA in Budapest and spent the next 5 years working as a teacher in the Spanish speaking world, namely Seville, Nicaragua and San Sebastian. After completing his DELTA, he swapped Europe for the Middle East, spending 6 years working for the British Council in Bahrain and training up as a tutor for the YL Extension to CELTA in the process. An interesting year on a university project in the Libyan Sahara followed and then 4 memorable years working as a freelancer in Sri Lanka where he trained to be a CELTA tutor, as well as delivering many British Council projects in a wide variety of contexts and countries including South Sudan, India, Myanmar and Tunisia to name but a few. His love of adventure led him to Kabul for 2 years, working with Afghan teachers and teacher educators to improve English education in the Afghan state sector. He now resides back in sunny Andalucía and currently divides his time between there and Turkey where he is working on a project to establish and support communities of practice in Turkish schools.He has also supported over 150 candidates with their DELTA Module 3, and is a specialist in Teaching YLs, Monolingual and Multilingual classes, Teaching in a Non-English speaking Environment, Language for Teacher Educators, Exams, EAP and Business English.
Jon de Ath Mercader
