Valerie H.

Meet Valerie

• Comfortable with pets
• Has a car

** Please note - as of now (10/1/2021) I am working full time and I am only available for evening and wkend hours.** Ready, Set, Go...to the park, the library, a museum or home for some fun! Engaging a child’s imagination, exploration and nature to learn are some of the qualities I focus on as a caregiver. For the past 15 years I have worked in the medical field which has been a fulfilling professional experience. However, I want to return to something that gives me great joy and purpose - working with children. My introduction to education was working for a privately owned Nursery school upon graduating from Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. I was very fortunate that my employer saw potential in combining my theatre background with education. My classes were 2-3 and 4-5 yr old. In addition, I often provided child care to my students during school Read more vacations and summer break. While teaching, it was a natural step to go on to leading Theatre workshops for all ages. One of my favorite was an improv class for 4th & 5th graders. Their favorite game was building a machine by using their ingenuity to create parts from their voices and bodies. During my years working in the medical field here on the North Shore, I have spent time volunteering for Horizons for Homeless Children along with caring for friends' kids while on fun filled play dates. I have always appreciated children's curiosity, imagination and love to explore. I was fortunate to work and learn from an educator that felt the way to a child’s heart for learning was to foster those very same things. I am wanting to bring that purpose back into my professional life through the opportunity of being a supportive caregiver in young people’s lives fostering their joy and growth.

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