OUR TEAM
Teresa Jacobson
Teresa Jacobson, founder and director of AVENIDA, was born and raised in London, England and has more than 20 years of experience in business management and international language training.
After locating in Spain in 2002 and due to client demand, she created AVENIDA with her passion to offer a professional world of experience combined with motivation, flexibility, equality and proven values in a tailor-made service for satisfied customers throughout the years.
Teresa continues to enjoy teaching both face-to-face and online and gives workshops specialising in international business as well as English courses at all levels.
Sofia Lily
Sofia Lily is our lovely teacher and Operations Coordinator. Born in London and brought up bilingual in English and Spanish, Sofia Lily graduated in Pedagogy and is a Cambridge qualified English teacher. For the last 4 years she has been running her own online language school as well
She loves teaching at all levels to all ages and specialises in exam preparation. Her patient and friendly manner makes her a popular educator and a responsible and valuable team member.
Sofia is also a cualified Zumba teacher and runs her own lively classes in her free time, combining teaching and exercise as an excellent source of motivation!
Dorien
Here we have our teacher Dorien, who teaches in our academy and online classes and who is originally from Belgium and speaks three languages. She has been working in Spain as an English teacher for more than 6 years and quickly settled . Dorien is a very friendly and creative person and shows her creativity in class as her dynamic classes are a lot of fun and she loves to teach the language and motivate her students, no matter what age they are.
She says she loves to see how the students improve and it gives her great satisfaction to help them every step of the way.
In her spare time, apart from travelling, she continues to be creative with her favourite hobby of sewing, where she designs, sews and models her original and perfectly finished garments.
José
This is our dynamic teacher, José, who teaches in class and online. He is a proactive person whose teaching style shows the great experience he has as a teacher. He has always loved the language, but it was in Dublin where he consolidated his knowledge as a teacher, and where he lived for almost three years. He has mastered the different technological methods of teaching and motivates his students and shares his knowledge in a lively way. In addition, he has more than five years of experience in the preparation of official Cambridge exams up to advanced levels. As well as travelling abroad as our group instructor, in his free time he is also a sports coach and is an official referee for the Andalusian Volleyball Association and travels around Spain and Europe. Here are some of the opinions of his students: Raúl, B1: Jose is the best teacher in the world! He is a very good person and very funny. He is always attentive and always helps me with everything. Africa, B2: Jose is a teacher who is always willing to listen to his students and also tries to make the class as fun as possible, although sometimes it is not easy, he always makes us smile and makes us go to his class with enthusiasm.
Marina
Marina, our English teacher and coordinator of the academy, is an organized and creative person. The dynamics of her in her classes is very fun, thus ensuring that the students are motivated to learn a new language, especially the little ones.
The great importance of learning English at such a young age is in good hands with her enthusiasm and energy that is transmitted to all of her students, combining music, activities and crafts in English that children enjoy so much.
In addition, her responsible and competent character extends it to the work of coordinating her in our administration.
Nick
Our competent and helpful online teacher, Nick is originally from Northamptonshire, England and has lived in Spain since 2011. His teaching experience began over many years in Madrid and eventually moved south to Malaga.
Nick is an expert in exam preparation, business English and the conversation classes he loves to teach. He is particularly strong in developing students' pronunciation and communication skills.
His continued success and regular online classes with Avenida make him a highly valued teacher and partner.
Kim
y experta en examenes Cambridge
Kim is a resourceful, hardworking and dedicated individual with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills who is quick to grasp new ideas and share her experience. Kim settled in Malaga more than 20 years ago and since then has held positions of responsibility in the business and educational fields.
She is now one of our best online teachers and an expert in preparing for official exams, together with her experience and confidence, the classes are enjoyable, interesting and dynamic for all levels.
Ivan
Our friendly teacher, Ivan studied English Philology and then two different Master's degrees in Language Teaching. To perfect his English, he worked as a language teacher in Scotland and Canada and now works as our online English teacher.
With his acquired level and confidence in teaching, Ivan gives the most advanced classes ready to correct and help our students learn and develop their English.
His students have a great time in his dynamic, fun and easy going classes.
When Ivan isn't teaching, he is playing volleyball and says he would play every day of his life if he could!
Andrea
Andrea, who is our enthusiastic online teacher from Arizona, USA, is an experienced English teacher who enjoys teaching at all levels and specialises in intensive courses and conversation classes to build students' confidence.
Her travels around the world and life abroad have opened up new opportunities for her as an English teacher and she brings her enthusiasm and cultural background to her classes, having taught students from many different ountries.
Her varied experience in online teaching allows her to offer flexible, interactive and lively classes and to tailor her classes to the levels and needs of students of all ages.
Andrea is an active person and, as a qualified Pilates instructor, in her spare time she enjoys practising and teaching Pilates to maintain a healthy body and a healthy mind!
Ivona
y English Teacher
Our lively teacher, Ivona, is originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina and is fluent in three languages. She moved to the United States, where she finished her studies at the University of Montana. She has nine years of classroom experience teaching English as a Second Language and preparing students for Cambridge exams. She enthusiastically enjoys teaching English as a Second Language and seeing her students enjoy learning new things and being a part of her learning process.
Gloria
Our lovely teacher, Gloria is an energetic, friendly, sociable and above all, dedicated person. From a very young age she has always enjoyed working with children, which is why she decided to study Early Childhood Education. During her time living in London, she discovered how rewarding it is to work with children in English.
What she likes most about her job is being able to see the great development of the students during the course and over the years. Knowing that thanks to her effort, love and dedication they are learning and gaining more confidence in themselves which for her, the greatest satisfaction she has as a teacher.
