Faculty

  • Emmy Decker
    Classroom Teacher

    Emmy brings impressive academic credentials and experience to FASTB.  Growing up in multicultural Rueil-Malmaison, a Parisian suburb and home to Napoleon’s castle – Château de la Malmaison, Emmy appreciated knowing multiple languages very early in life.  She attended Sorbonne Université in Paris and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in English Language, Literature, and Civilization to underscore that.

    She then pursued her studies at the Sorbonne to obtain a Master’s degree in Applied French – Teaching French as a Foreign Language.  Between the first and second year of her Master’s program, she taught French at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA, for a year as part of the Fulbright FLTA program, returning to teach for a year at the American University of Paris. A world traveler, Emmy has then taught at the Alliance Française of Christchurch, New Zealand, before joining FASTB in 2020.

  • Benjamin Monto
    Classroom Teacher

    Benjamin joined the FASTB team in August 2021. He has been a teacher for the French Ministry of Education AEFE / MENJS since 2009. For the last seven years, he was teaching in Senegal, Africa. It was an enriching experience from a professional and human perspective and in his personal life since his son was born in Dakar.
    Before that, he had taught in the Paris region as a school teacher in Sarcelles in a priority education zone. Since he has been teaching, he has taken on the roles of School Director, Project Coordinator, Pedagogical Advisor, and Host/ Mentor Teacher for teachers preparing for the competitive examination for school teachers.
    Born in the southwest of France, he grew up in a sporty family in the Arcachon basin and practiced several activities from a young age. His studies at the Faculty of Sport in Bordeaux allowed him to focus on child education.
    He is delighted to join a dynamic school and live a new experience in a country he is eager to discover!

  • Françoise Thuriere
    Classroom Teacher

    Françoise was born and raised in Bourges, a city in the center of France. At a very young age, she developed a passion for gymnastics, contemporary dance, and other sports and arts. This passion drove her to undertake her studies in Sciences Techniques of Physical Activities and Sports. During her studies, she really enjoyed the training and educational sessions with young children. She taught Physical Education in France for one year in middle school.
    Then, the insatiable thirst for discovering the world set in with her first opportunity to obtain a teaching position in a French School in Barcelona (Spain). Françoise continued her journey in New York (USA), then in Cairo (Egypt) where she could teach as a PE teacher and then as a Primary teacher. Five years later, she arrived in HONG KONG to discover the Asian World and there was so much to do that she stayed there for 25 years! A new passion emerged: teaching the Pre-Kindergarten level in a bilingual system where she could mix her interests in Physical Education, Arts, and Children’s literature with all of the psychological aspects of this age group. Françoise is happy to bring her wealth of experience to join FASTB where she looks forward to beginning a new adventure.”