{"id":1882,"date":"2021-06-12T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T11:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aldiatodayusa.com\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2021-06-12T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T11:17:56","slug":"nivia-torres-changes-lives-teaching-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aldiatoday.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/12\/nivia-torres-changes-lives-teaching-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Nivia Torres changes lives teaching English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Por Jesika Millano P.<\/em><\/strong>
Para Al D\u00eda Today<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PALM BAY \u2013 Nivia Torres has been educating with love and patience for more than 15 years, and her experience has helped her students discover the power of motivation to successfully learn whatever they set out to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a teacher, she has always believed in giving and sharing. She also believes having positive expectations of her students, from beginning to end, is the main focus when educating them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a teacher with the English Language Integration Program (ELI) at the Brevard Hispanic Center, a resource offering personalized help in English-language communication to people who emigrated to the U.S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy greatest satisfaction is helping people achieve the American dream,\u201d said Torres, who grew up in Puerto Rico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen my students manage to demonstrate their abilities, I feel complete and happy to be a part of that progress and, at the same time, to be able to continue with my dream of teaching,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torres has wanted to be a teacher since she was a child, and after getting married and moving to the U.S., the opportunity arose to volunteer in schools, and later, work as a Spanish teacher. And even though she\u2019s retired, her passion for teaching remains intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTeaching is something that I carry within me and I always want to transmit it,\u201d Torres says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana D\u00edaz, the principal at University Park Elementary in Melbourne and secretary of the Brevard Hispanic Center, said that each job that Torres has carried out is done with the same love and dedication that she showed towards her own son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI met Nivia more than 20 years ago. I was a teacher at Riviera Elementary and she was the mother of one of our students,\u201d D\u00edaz said. \u201cShe was one of those mothers very involved in the education of her son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring a conversation with her, I learned she was a teacher in Puerto Rico and I advised her that she should be a teacher here in Brevard,\u201d D\u00edaz explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how Torres started as a substitute teacher, teacher assistant, and English as a Second Language (ESOL) instructor at Riviera and Port Malabar elementary schools. She later became an ESOL teacher for adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe has a natural patience, but I think the most beautiful thing about Nivia Torres is that she is genuine. Her affection and her concern for her students make the student, whether younger or older, feel heard and capable,\u201d D\u00edaz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Matilde P\u00e1ez de Baracaldo, one of Nivia Torres\u2019s students in the ELI Program, that same dedication and passion in her virtual classroom helped her successfully pass the citizenship test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am from Colombia and although I have lived in this country for years, my level of English was very basic. However, Nivia gave me a lot of encouragement and confidence,\u201d P\u00e1ez said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe always motivated me and believed I was capable of achieving my goal. From the beginning she was very aware of my learning process, regardless of whether it was the weekend. She always made me feel important, \u201cshe added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her part, Torres said she was satisfied that her student had successfully passed the exam and obtained her citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I see the faces of my students, their joy and happiness, it is as if they were transmitted to me. Perseverance to achieve goals \u2018infects\u2019 me and makes me very happy. It is the greatest gift for a teacher,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She further stated that through the ELI Program, a door was not only opened to continue teaching, but also to help and inspire many. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She believes that it is never too late for people to learn and to achieve their dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about the ELI Program, call the Brevard Hispanic Center at (321) 327-8938.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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