The teaching staff at Top School are a group of dedicated professionals with all the necessary qualities to ensure a fantastic learning experience for our students:
Highly-qualified and experienced in teaching Spanish as a foreign language
Passionate about learning
Accredited
Enthusiastic, dedicated, skilled teachers
Responsible and committed to their work and students
Sensitive to the multi-cultural nature of the Top School classroom and its influence on the teaching-learning process
Able to turn abstract learning objectives into practical activities that are beneficial to students in real-life contexts
Flexible and willing to adapt course content to suit the needs of each student.
Able to design, structure and update course content taking into account the different ways of learning of students
Experts in using a variety of teaching material in the classroom
Accustomed to including audiovisual equipment in class, using motivating and challenging activities which only help to increase students’ knowledge of the language
Experienced in planning courses that focus on written and oral expression and comprehension, through interaction with others
Fun, dynamic lessons aimed at stimulating student participation and their becoming independent learners, a key factor in successful language learning
Our teachers
Erika
Erika B. has a degree in Hispanic Philology and a Doctorate in the Education Program from the University of Murcia. In 2017 she obtained a mobility scholarship for young researchers at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). During her doctoral stay she began to develop her professional career as a teacher of ELE, both in the University and in the classroom of the Cervantes Institute in Bratislava. After finishing her stay, she returned to Spain where she works as a teacher and examiner of the Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language in different educational centers. The continuous training and passion for teaching are a reflection of her attitude in class.
Ernesto
Ernesto is a teacher with a remarkable and vast experience in the world of teaching Spanish as a second foreign language. This dynamic teacher has been teaching Spanish since 2009, he has taught 5 years abroad, specifically in Brazil, Peru and Russia. He has a diploma in Labor Relations, but after dedicating himself to the world of tourism working as an animator and accompanying guide, he discovered his great passion in teaching. He combines in his classes all the skills to make them more productive, practical and enjoyable, he also creates his own materials. He is a DELE examiner since 2017 and we can discover an open and empathic person in him, probably because he has traveled through more than 70 countries.
Mª Carmen
Mari Carmen has a degree in Translation and Interpreting and a master’s degree in Spanish as a Foreign Language. Languages have always been her passion, which has led her to live in different parts of the world such as England, Austria or the United States. In her classes, always positive and full of energy, she tries to get her students to develop their communicative competence to the fullest. This ilicitana is always willing to get the best out of her students.
Jonatan
Jonatan García is licensed by the University of Alicante in English Philology. Lover of languages and cultures of the world has turned his passion into his profession. Jonatan, from an early age, speaks English, French and Chinese. In class he brings his experience in didactics of the Spanish Language and makes it dynamic, always taking into account the hobbies of the students so that they find themselves in teaching environment full of energy. For this teacher, the students are the active driving force of the class and the main focus of attention.
