Over 20,000 hours in classroom settings fostering academic learning skills/social-interaction strategies, with focus on social-emotional skills development, family relationships, trauma-sensitive teaching, play-based and place-based learning, child-directed discovery, and learners who need a 'head start' to learn or who learn differently.Additional experience with English Language Learners, children living with food insecurity/poverty and/or homelessness, and utilizing visuals to support learning.Goal: Blending compassion with knowledge to facilitate learning via play or hands-on lessons.Specialties: Modifying/adapting classroom layout and each experience to fit the individual social-emotional need of each student; integrating best-practice to support each student's potential; understanding the needs of children who may have suffered trauma or loss.
Listed skills include Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Early Intervention, Interpersonal Communication, and 27 others.