Our Teachers
Our full-time teachers have a combined total of over 150+ years of experience working as preschool teachers.
Each teacher provides for the education of the whole child – physically, socially, emotionally and developmentally. Our experienced teachers organize the curriculum around each child’s developmental needs, interests and learning styles. They recognize that each child follows a unique pattern of development and that young children learn best through first hand experiences with people and materials. Our dedicated and nurturing teachers emphasize the process of learning rather than focusing on finished products. Our caring teachers, who believe in every child’s potential to succeed. They lovingly embrace each child’s unique qualities, experiences, values, behaviors, hopes, dreams, and ideas to create an environment that facilitates their discovery of themselves.
- All Texas preschool teachers must have a minimum of 24 hours of training per year.
- Texas state certified instructors are brought in to the Octopus Garden to conduct eight hours of training to all teachers on various Early Education and Child Development topics. These Staff Development Days are scheduled three times a year to allow all teachers to accrue the training hours they must have.
- The school is closed for these three Staff Development Days. Please check the school calendar for Staff Development Days scheduled.
- All staff and teachers are CPR certified by the American Heart Association and First Aid certified by the American Red Cross.
- All staff and teachers are required to receive a minimum of one hour of training per year on Child Abuse and Neglect.