Javier

I’m Javi. I’ve been a languages teacher for about three years. One in the UK and two abroad. I’ve specialisied in teaching English in non-English speaking countries and Spanish in the U.K.

I was born in Guatemala and studied English at school in there. Thanks to that, after getting a journalism degree from Universidad del Istmo, I started teaching English and Italian at Academia Europea, in which I learned the IALS (Interactive Language System). There I learned to teach using 100% target language from day 1 even with the less advanced of groups. This would make them speak their target language to a basic level in around four months. I did the same thing in Italian in the same institution. I got private lessons, in which I taught one stuedent at a time only, then semi-private in which I taught groups from 2-4 and group classes in which I simultaneously taught groups of up to 15 students of all ages at one time.

I left that job because I migrated to Spain to study a master’s in HR. After that, I used my languages to be cabin crew for Ryanair, and after having become a purser, I decided to come back to education. That is when I started studying my PGCE with St. Mary’s University and got involved with the U.K.’s education system. There I understood other methods of teaching languages and taught Spanish in KS3 and KS4.

My best quality is adaptability, as I believe I can teach any person who is willing to learn, regardless of how difficult they might find the subject.