Hoda Parvas

Hoda Parvas is an Iranian educator/facilitator (Applied Theatre in Education). She received her Master's from the Department of Education at the University of Nottingham in TESOL. She also holds other qualifications such as Cambridge CELTA and TESOL from London Teacher Training Centre. Hoda began her journey as an EFL teacher at the age of 18 at Toloo primary school in Tehran. In the following years, she continued teaching (adults, and young learners), and worked as the head of the Foreign Language Department at Tehran Institute of Technology, during which she started using theatre as a learning medium with a focus on communicative and cultural competence, to create real-life moments in which language is acquired rather than learned.