Early Childhood Educator
CurrentI am a en Educator that began teaching very young since I was one of the head instructors in my Martial Arts school. I taught both the adult and children class. I began learning better strategies to teach and became interested in education and psychology. I began studying Secondary English Education and changed my major to Early Childhood Educator when I began working in A Reggio Emilia Inspired school called The Joy of Learning. Here my interest became a passion and the new more mindful approach I learned in this school enhanced my ability to teach my Karate classes. Soon I became a teacher for their Three Year old class and learned what project based learning in a beautifully rich constructivist approach was all about. Here I learned to collaborate with the other Educators including the Atelierista and Teachers to create and plan out experiences, document and analyze the children as they explore and create documents like daily emails to parents highlighting their children’s day and Power point presentations that were later used as the Years Documentation or panels that would make the children’s learning visible within the context of the ongoing projects the children were investigating at the time. I later on became a PE teacher for two years in KLC only to return to The Joy of Learning. As a PE teacher I taught K-5th Grade and got certified in the SPARK program and C.A.T.C.H. Which are programs that have many fun games which I have gone on to use in new roles that have required fun activities that encourage good sportsmanship and teamwork. I then worked in L’Atelier School as a Toddler Teacher, Atelierista, Karate Sensei and also Breakdancing Instructor in two separate after school programs, which became the classes with the highest attendance in the after care program. Apart from his multiple roles in the school he also began the English Class where Teachers that did not have English as a first language were invited to come in thirty minutes early to practice.
