BCC TEACHER EDUCATION

Students, please call me…..Lenny

Courses I usually teach: ECE 110 Introduction to Early Education
ECE 120 Curriculum Development
ECE 155 Language and Literacy Development

Background:
Education
B.A. from Binghamton University (Cum Laude)
M.S. Ed. From The College of Saint Rose (Magna Cum Laude)

Work Experience

Due to my husband's career opportunities we have lived in several different cities throughout the Northeast over the past nine years. I have taught in both public and private school settings and have had experience teaching primarily at the preschool level although I did wear the "hat" of a fifth and sixth grade teacher in a private school with departmentalized curriculum teaching social studies. I worked as a preschool teacher in the Syracuse area in an inclusion classroom in which half of the children were identified with disabilities. This experience enlightened me to the diverse abilities that each child possesses in several different developmental areas. We then moved to the Capital District where I helped launch a literature-based curriculum in a newly constructed preschool that collaborated with Head Start and a local nursing home in an effort to provide education to children from impoverished backgrounds and to foster intergenerational relationships. I was then presented with a terrific opportunity to be a preschool teacher for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Samaritan Hospital. In this program we concentrated on utilizing the fine arts as a teaching tool as well as creating a project-based curriculum adopted from Reggio Emilia. I was then recruited to assist in the organization and implementation of a private school's first Universal Pre-K program. During that year, we were blessed with the birth of our twins, Owen and Olivia. As a result, I stopped teaching, postponed my doctorate work and we relocated to the Binghamton area to be closer to family. I was then presented with the opportunity to be the Universal Pre-K Supervisor for Tioga Opportunities, Inc. and ultimately a position teaching in the Teacher Education program here at BCC.

Philosophy Statement:

I feel that children and adults learn best in a comfortable, secure and nurturing environment that provides many stimulating and hands-on learning opportunities. Children are our society's greatest gift to the future and it is our responsibility as educators to help support, educate and collaborate with families in cultivating this "gift" they have. I have a tremendous amount of passion for this profession and hope that this passion will be contagious to those students committed to early education as well. Aside from my own children and family, the students, children and families that I work with are my inspiration for doing what I do. I love connecting with and teaching both children and adults and look forward to every opportunity that will result in positive and rewarding experiences for students, children, and their families.

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