About Ramona
I spent most of my childhood on Quadra Island. One day when I was twelve I visited my mother's kindergarten classroom at the Waldorf school on Quadra Island. "This is what I want to do." I thought to myself. Years later after I graduated university, I went overseas to teach English in Indonesia, where I met my husband, and then in Taiwan. I taught classes from preschool up through adults, with preschool and the early grades always being classes I enjoyed with ease.
I then moved to the San Francisco area to do the Waldorf Teacher Training programme through the Rudulf Steiner College with a focus on Early Childhood classes. I spent several years being a nanny while doing my training and when my eldest daughter was young.
It was in Portland, Oregon that I was introduced to the Reggio Emilia approach to education. I have a very close friend who worked at Opal school, a charter school that brought the Reggio Emilia from preschool up through the grades. Each summer, she invited me to the symposium held at Opal school.
When we moved to Vancouver my oldest daughter was ready to go to preschool and I was ready to teach at the Vancouver Waldorf School. While working at the Vancouver Waldorf School, I completed my Early Childhood Education training at Vancouver Community College. I spent five years teaching in the preschool and kindergarten programmes. I loved my job, and I loved my co-teacher, and there was a time when I thought I would be doing it forever.
But as my family grew, Quadra looked better and better, and so we moved. One weekend when my youngest daughter and I were playing on the upper playground Sue invited us to play in the yard. As we explored the yard, and peeked in the window, I thought to myself "I would love for my daughter to go here." then I thought, "I would love to work here."
Now I am here, in the same building which used to be the Waldorf School on Quadra, where I first had the thought, "This is what I want to do.” I enjoy bringing the approach to child development, stories, puppets, and activities that I learned while working with the Waldorf curriculum and combining it with a programme rich in the Reggio Emilia approach of investigation and discovery. I feel privileged to take care of and form relationships with Quadra's children, and I am happy that our community is close enough that I will continue to see them as they grow.
I then moved to the San Francisco area to do the Waldorf Teacher Training programme through the Rudulf Steiner College with a focus on Early Childhood classes. I spent several years being a nanny while doing my training and when my eldest daughter was young.
It was in Portland, Oregon that I was introduced to the Reggio Emilia approach to education. I have a very close friend who worked at Opal school, a charter school that brought the Reggio Emilia from preschool up through the grades. Each summer, she invited me to the symposium held at Opal school.
When we moved to Vancouver my oldest daughter was ready to go to preschool and I was ready to teach at the Vancouver Waldorf School. While working at the Vancouver Waldorf School, I completed my Early Childhood Education training at Vancouver Community College. I spent five years teaching in the preschool and kindergarten programmes. I loved my job, and I loved my co-teacher, and there was a time when I thought I would be doing it forever.
But as my family grew, Quadra looked better and better, and so we moved. One weekend when my youngest daughter and I were playing on the upper playground Sue invited us to play in the yard. As we explored the yard, and peeked in the window, I thought to myself "I would love for my daughter to go here." then I thought, "I would love to work here."
Now I am here, in the same building which used to be the Waldorf School on Quadra, where I first had the thought, "This is what I want to do.” I enjoy bringing the approach to child development, stories, puppets, and activities that I learned while working with the Waldorf curriculum and combining it with a programme rich in the Reggio Emilia approach of investigation and discovery. I feel privileged to take care of and form relationships with Quadra's children, and I am happy that our community is close enough that I will continue to see them as they grow.
