NAME:
Mr. Scaramuzzo
SCHOOL:
Lyon Elementary
CLASS:
Preschool Early Intervention
SCHOOL PHONE:
(985)892-0869
The 2011-12 school year will mark the 37th year that I have been involved in
education, most of this time spent as a classroom teacher and some as an
administrator of educational programs in Orleans Parish. All of my years in
the classroom have been devoted to young children, from pre-k level through
kindergarten.
As of the 2011-12 school year, I have earned two Master's Degrees (MEd), one
in Early Childhood Education and a recently completed one in Educational
Leadership and Training. I was honored to be singled out as the Distinguished
Graduate Scholar from among the entire graduating class of SLU's Department
of Education and Human Development when I completed the Ed Leadership Program
in 2008. I am certified in the State Of Louisiana for Early Childhood
Education, Early Intervention, Teacher Leader and Educational Leadership.
For those wanting to know details, my resume is provided below.
Having worked in early childhood education for so many years, it should be
obvious that I have a bias towards the responsibility of working with very
young children. It is my belief, backed by volumes of research, that these
are the most crucial years in a child’s development. This is the time of life
that children learn about themselves and how to relate to the world around
them. It is at this age that children form a concept of themselves as “ok”
or “not ok,” the time when they begin to pay attention to, and model, the
adults around them, and the time when they develop their valuation of school
and learning, in general. Therefore, extensive thought and planning has gone
into the way we interact with the children, the modeling of behavior that we
are providing, the general attitude about life and learning that we are
instilling, and, of course, the developmental appropriateness of the learning
activities that we are providing.
Working with very young children is a true delight to me, and since coming to
Lyon Elementary in school year 2006-7, I have been blessed with the
opportunity to work with three paraprofessionals who care as much as I do
about the influence we have on the children with whom we spend each day. Our
mission is to nurture in our children the skills they will need to succeed in
life. This includes academic skills to succeed in school, eating skills to
maintain a healthy body, interpersonal skills to know how to treat the people
they will meet in life, and organizational skills so that some day they will
be able to identify and successfully seek their goals and aims.
