Meet our teachers
Ideal School is committed to hiring only the absolute best & most qualified candidates to teach your child. As a pre-requisite to be hired as a teacher at Ideal School, candidates must possess a minimum of 5 years of classroom teaching experience. This is not a on-the-job training environment. Our teachers are qualified, certified, & dedicated to your child’s success!
Bilingual and Bi-Literate
All of the teachers at Ideal School are bilingual and bi-literate in Spanish and English. We actively seek teachers with experience teaching foreign language learners. All have at least a bachelors degree and all have teaching certificates. Most importantly, all teachers at Ideal School love teaching and serving all students!
Subjects & Curriculum
Mathematics
Taught Language: English
Curriculum: Math Expression from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt©
Format: Print and digital
Includes consumables: Yes
Social Studies
Taught Language: Spanish
Curriculum: Intro to Social Studies from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ©
Format: Print and digital
Includes consumables: Yes
English Language Arts
Taught Language: English
Curriculum: Journeys from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ©
Format: Print and digital
Includes consumables: Yes
Spanish Language Arts
Taught Language: English
Curriculum: Senderos from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ©
Format: Print and digital
Includes consumables: Yes
With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s fusion science kits, your child will enjoy investigating a wide variety of science topics with real materials that are thoughtfully selected and prepared by one of the world’s foremost educational curriculum design firms.
Science
Taught Language: Spanish
Curriculum: Science Dimensions from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ©
Format: Print and digital
Includes consumables: Yes
Our Teachers
Met our incredible team of professionals
“Teaching for Ideal School is the crossroads for all of my interests and I look forward to bringing my skills as a teacher to the classrooms of the future, the classrooms of Ideal School.”
- 15 years of teaching English and Spanish teaching in a bilingual school in the Stockton Unified School District in Stockton, California, USA
- Holds an earned masters degree in education
- He has innovated the use of technology in classrooms and sought to implement bilingual programs which are research-based and theoretically-grounded.
“I love to take my students to a world of discovery. A world filled with their abilities. A child’s mind is waiting to learn. They are always in the search for new experiences and I feel privileged to be the one that can guide them through new adventures!.”
15 years of extensive experience teaching English to children in bilingual schools in Costa Rica.
She graduated from Universidad Estatal a Distancia with a Bachelors degree in primary school Education with an emphasis in English teaching. She also earned a Masters degree in English teaching as a foreign Language with FUNIBER in association with Universidad Ibearoamericana of Puerto Rico.
She has also voluntarily worked with foreign students in her home country of Costa Rica.
“I am happy to work for Ideal School. It was exciting to find a place where education could be taken to the next level, the level of comfort and security, of practicality and innovation, of connection and multicultural learning.”
20 years of extensive experience teaching children in bilingual international schools in Costa Rica from first to sixth grade. She has taught core subjects like language arts, math, science, social studies, history and literature, as well as ESL (English as a Second Language).
She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Universidad Internacional de las Américas in Costa Rica with a bachelor’s degree in English Language Teaching.
She makes use of different technological tools to make lessons more interactive. Having worked in Montessori schools, she also likes to incorporate principles such as observation, respect, encouragement, freedom to explore, concentration, and a sense of accomplishment for work well done in class.
“I am really thrilled to be a part of Ideal School. I have always dreamed of finding a way to interact with people from the safety of my own study room, and Ideal School has nailed it.”
- Holds an earned Ph.D. in applied linguistics from the University of Nebraska
- Has been working in education since 1994 in many levels
- Speaks, reads, and writes in English, Spanish, Italian and French, and loves history and teaching languages and is very knowledgeable about the process of becoming bilingual and bi-literate
“I like reading, writing short stories, running, and developing myself. I think that although I am a teacher, I learn everyday. I love students and learning!“
Has six years of teaching experience. Previously taught kindergarten dual language at Marshall Elementary School in Texas.
She has an earned bachelors degree in education from Autónoma University.
She is very easy to talk to, caring, and hard-working.
“Working for Ideal School represents an excellent opportunity to join the best of technology and methodology to provide students with a leading education. Moreover, it is a challenge to inspire students into a globalized world to analyze options, make decisions, solve problems, work in teams, and be creative. I am thrilled to be part of Ideal School and actively participate with an institution that is making a new proposal and cares for this new kind of education.”
· She has been an English Instructor for more than 15 years, trying to make a direct impact on education by integrating technology and applications in the K-12 classroom. She has a Master’s degree in Technological Education from the Technological Institute of Higher Studies of Monterrey, Mexico (ITESM).
· She is committed to creating a unique and creative environment to provide students with a meaningful and joyful learning experience.
Three Major Benefits of Dual Language Learning
1- Researchers have found that actively using two languages seems to have a protective effect against age-related dementia.
2- In studies covering six states and 37 districts, they have found that, compared with students in English-only classrooms or in one-way immersion, dual-language students have somewhat higher test scores and also seem to be happier in school. Attendance is better, behavioral problems fewer, parent involvement higher.
3- It turns out that, in many ways, the real trick to speaking two languages consists in managing not to speak one of those languages at a given moment — which is fundamentally a feat of paying attention.
DATA GRAPH OF BENEFITS OF A TWO-WAY DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM
As more and more students in The United States grow up in families that speak other languages other than English, Two-Way Dual Language programs make so much sense. Notice that the research-based graph below clearly shows that Two-Way Dual Language programs are superior to all other programs to helping non-native English-speaking students even surpass their English only-speaking counterparts. We are living in a very diverse world, and being highly proficient in two of the most dominant languages spoken in the world would be a tremendous benefit to your son or daughter’s future!
