Ms. Ptasinski

Catholic Classroom Ms. Ptasinski has over ten years experience as a preschool teacher, a kindergarten teacher, a director and a coordinator in both day care and parochial school settings. She feels fortunate to have worked and studied under a leading child psychologist, who also served as the Dean of Early Childhood Education at her university. She feels similarly blessed to have attended a summer masters program for British Primary Education at Oxford University in England.

Ms. Ptasinski graduated with a degree in English, later returning to school to study Early Childhood Education. Her teaching certificate is for grades K-9. She has served as a student teacher for First and Third Grade, and is also an experienced tutor for students ages six through eighteen.

Each year, Pam's goal is to guide each child in his or her discovery of the world--realizing that each child is blessed with unique abilities, learning styles, and needs--by providing a positive, nurturing environment enriched with a wide variety of learning opportunities and activities. Her approach concentrates on assisting students to develop cognitively, spiritually, socially, and emotionally so that they can be confident and secure individuals. Ms. Ptasinski believes that parents are the primary educators, and that parents and teachers share the responsibility of educating children.

Ms. Ptasinski believes her greatest strengths as a teacher are a loving heart, a creative personality, dedication, an abundance of God-given energy, experience in both the classroom and the "real world" (i.e. the business world), and the possession of a joyous attitude toward both life in general and teaching, in particular.