Meet our tutors - Liliana Leathwhite

Liliana is a valued Spanish tutor at Kent Adult Education. Her passion for teaching began young. She has grown up in Ecuador, and having numerous educators in her family, she saw first-hand the difference a good teacher can make. When she moved to the UK in 1996, Liliana learned a lot about the value of different cultures and foreign languages. She soon realised that teaching was something that she would love to do one day and that she had skills and the open personality to help others.

Liliana carefully plans her lessons, but she also likes to give her students space to learn at their own pace and experiment with their own personal interests when learning Spanish. She believes that learning a language should be fun and useful which is what she wishes to convey in her lessons and why she likes to bring real life situations into her class.

Like many of our tutors, Liliana recently involved her students in learning online due to the pandemic. She says: "It has been great teaching online sharing audio, PowerPoints and getting them involved in different activities. All learners loved doing this".