Latoya M.
Education
Brooklyn college,
Bachelor's in Childhood Education:1-6 and Youth St
LaGuardia Community College,
Associates in Arts
Professional Childcare Experience
Preschool Teacher
Brooklyn, NY, 09/21 - Present
age 3
Full-Time Nanny
Manhattan, NY, 01/19 - 08/21
Newborn and 4 months
Full-Time Nanny
Long Island City, NY, 03/17 - 01/19
6 months, twin
Full-Time Nanny
Manhattan, NY, 06/15 - 08/16
9 months
Other Experience
Preschool Teacher
Brooklyn, NY, 09/21 - 01/70
About me
Hi, I am fully vaccinated and boosted. I am from Trinidad and Tobago and enjoy traveling, spending time with my family and friends, listening to music, etc. I am the eldest of three. I have over ten years of extensive experience working with children from newborns up. Now I am a 3k teacher. I enjoy helping children through their developmental milestones—some of the things I love doing with children are singing, reading, and engaging in arts and educational activities. I also have experience working with children who have speech delays, language barriers, and behavioral problems. I am also willing to travel with families during the summer. I am currently in the final semester of my degree. I am pursuing a double major in Childhood Education: Grades 1-6 and Youth Studies. I have worked with children from grades 1-6 during my observations for student teaching. I also speak basic Spanish and know various calming techniques in helping a child cope emotionally. I am also CPR and first aid certified and I am a mandated reporter and have other teaching skills and experiences. My experience as a nanny has helped integrate me into a teacher. The lessons I learned have helped me learn many valuable lessons about children. My academic journey has also helped me understand children better and learned many skills and awareness about behaviors, coping strategies, and techniques to help them socially, and emotionally while developing their fine and gross motor skills. As a teacher, I am learning various techniques that I can use to help children develop and be the best versions of themselves. I enjoy researching ideas and activities to help children develop academically, emotionally, and socially. I love music and collecting various books to read to children as I one day hope to write my own children's books.
I have professional child care experience with...
Infants- Toddlers
- Preschoolers
- School-aged (K-5)
- Twins
- Multiples
- Special Needs
In 5 years, I hope to be...
After completing my degree, I will already have two years of teaching experience. I want to apply to be the education director at my current school or another organization. I enjoy researching and reading about how we can better assist children. I want to help other teachers find valuable programs, tools, training, and resources that support their students' needs to be better educators and individuals in and out of the classroom. Also, I want to divulge much deeper into the curriculum to help students develop and grow. Since beginning teaching, I have seen the challenges that students and teachers face, which are worrisome. I see how much teachers struggle with a language barrier in the classroom and hear how helpless they feel because they cannot help. This new school year, I had to find creative ways to manage the language barrier with one of my students. I researched worksheets with Spanish instructions to help him, but they seemed near impossible to find. I hoped that if we could not help him in the classroom, his parents could help him at home, as it is also a challenge to speak to his parents because of the language barrier. The worksheets did not help because the homework was still incomplete. I felt defeated because I thought I had finally found the solution. I wish schools would ensure various staff or employees can speak students' home languages or pay for staff to learn those languages. In the next five years, I want to pursue a child counseling master's degree and create a mentoring program for fatherless children using my experiences and what I learned academically to help fatherless children. I hope this mentoring program can be implemented locally, around the country, and even adopted globally within those five years. I want to advocate for children and help them deal with trauma, anxiety, family issues, etc. I want to ensure that the generational curse of fatherless ceases because children often suffer adversely because of their father's absence. I want to contribute to a child's betterment as they are exposed to different experiences and avenues to ensure they have the best chance for success and fill that void of emptiness.
Activities & skills I love to teach & share with children...
Reading, development milestones that help children's fine and gross motor skills, emotional coping strategies, math, etc.