Teacher Danica

Danica came to Canada 20 years ago from Europe, where she was working as a psychologist, working with a variety of challenging cases involving children and adults. After meeting her husband in English class, she made the decision to stay in Canada and start a new life. She decided to start a family, and decided to stay at home with her children. As her children got older, they got to the age of preschool, and there, Danica met her childrenʼs fabulous preschool teacher, who talked her into becoming a preschool teacher. Danica took Montessori and ECE (Early Childhood Education), and later on, she also took training in the Tribes Learning Community. Learning all these different methods and points of view, she realized that the main teaching in all of these philosophies was the vision of a child as an independent, capable self-learner, who will grow and will be eager to learn, as long as teachers prepare an encouraging environment for learning. Danica believes that children deserve to learn in beautiful places, full of wonder and excitement, where they can let their imagination take over in the art area, and satisfy their curiosity in different science experiments. As Plato said a long time ago…“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” She believes that through play, creative art, scientific discoveries, and block building, children expand their vocabulary, learn math and solve problems in a respectful way, and become resilient independent learners for life.