I am a passionate, mature-age student, bringing with me a world of life experience and knowledge. Excited to drive my focus towards working collaboratively with like-minded educators in shaping the next generation. I understand and highly value partnerships with families and advocate in assisting children in becoming independent, reflective, lifelong learners and confident contributors in a complex, changing world, with a passion towards seeing holistic development of young children supported. I endeavor to focus my future studies and energy on providing young children opportunities to develop their sense of identity, social and emotional well-being, physical skills, cognitive and thinking capabilities, emergent literacy and numeracy understanding, and creative expression.