Jane Coates
- A Graduate, a qualified and experienced Social Worker and a Primary School Teacher with 22 years of experience teaching students from 4 to 12 years of age.
- CELTA and TEFL qualifications.
- She has had short periods of teaching in Angola, Africa; Bangladesh; India and Afghanistan as a volunteer teacher.
- She is a regular short term volunteer for Amity- a charity founded in 1985 which was one of the first NGOs officially
- approved by the Chinese Government, helping Chinese
- teachers of English to develop their English oracy skills
- (speaking, listening, language and teaching skills).
- She has led teacher teams on behalf of Amity each July for the past
- 8 years (in Luzhou, Sichuan Province, Xingtang, Hebei Province; Chuzhou, Jiangsu Province; Binyang, Guangxi Province; Ma'Anshan, Anhui Province; Duolun, Inner Mongolia.)
- She is married to Phil Coates, and they have 4 adult children and 3 grandchildren.
Angela Evans
- She is a graduate with a PGCE and taught history in secondary schools in England and Kenya
- She is also a qualified librarian, with experience of working in libraries in further education colleges and secondary schools
- She visited China for the first time in 2002
- She has a TEFL qualification and MA in English Language Teaching
- She joined Amity’s full-time teacher programme in 2006, teaching English to students in teachers’ colleges in Dingxi and Lanzhou (Gansu province), and Jining (Inner Mongolia)
- She was involved in a programme of staff development for college and secondary school teachers for two years while in Jining, Inner Mongolia
- She has visited at least seventeen provinces of China – Gansu is her favourite
- She returned from China in 2012, became a member of FCC and serves on its committee
- She participated in the SEP in 2013 and led a team in Dongying, Shandong Province
- She coordinated the SEP volunteers from the UK in 2014
- She is part of a large family and enjoys being an aunt and great aunt A graduate with BA (USA) and B Ed (UK)
