Meet our Teachers
Our teachers are all native Spanish speakers, each with appropriate qualifications for teaching the Spanish language at primary and secondary levels.
Karen, originally from Colombia, brings more than 7 years of experience in teaching a second language to primary school.
She joined our team from 2022 and her passion and commitment to education led her to obtain a Bachelor in bilingual education in 2020 and she is currently studying a diploma in childcare.
In addition, Karen is trained in first aid and has her certificates in food safety and child protection (early childhood).
Currently, she is part of the staff at government school (Victoria school of languages), Escuela Hispanoamericana and works as an educator in a Spanish child care.
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.
My name is Ruth, I was born in Chile, and I am the current Spanish teacher for year 7-8 at Hispano American School of Springvale. When I am not working as a Spanish teacher, I work as Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute and hold an Honorary position at Hudson Institute of Medical Research, where my main interest is understanding the molecular mechanisms of ovarian cancer spread. I am a graduate of Melbourne University (Doctor of Philosophy graduate) and did my Bachelor’s & Master’s degree at Monash University. I studied Spanish language for three years during my Bachelor’s degree, obtaining high distinctions for all the Spanish subject units. Over the past years, I have gained teaching experience from Primary to University students. I am adept at creating a classroom atmosphere that is stimulating, encouraging, and adaptive to the varied needs of students. I would describe myself as positive, knowledgeable, with a diverse experience. I love teaching Spanish and its culture; it has been a very enriching experience for me and I would like to think for my students too. Teaching a language is a priceless and inspiring experience and is something that I have come to really value and enjoy.
Hi, my name is Marta Torres. I have more than 40 years of experience teaching overseas and in Melbourne. During these years I have been working with students from Prep to adults, including scholars from RMIT and Monash University. Here at Escuela Hispanoamericana de Springvale I have started in year 2010, where I developed the VCE program. Now I am the VCE teacher and the Program Facilitator.
Hi ! My name is Hernan Forero from Colombia, happy and proud to teach my language and share my culture. I love reading books and travel around the world.