Ms. Amy’s vocation for early childhood development started when she was babysitting her brother, cousins, and nieces/nephews (while still a child herself). A Girl Scout from the times of middle school, she was a cadette leading of brownies and juniors and then eventually became a venturer and helped oversee the girl scouts and cub scouts. In her senior year of high school, Ms. Amy worked with young children in a preschool setting; now she is at her fourth year at San Jose State University.
“I enjoy working with kids because they are very eager to learn and are very energetic. I love it when children are curious about their environment and ask questions, or are very into a subject and are excited to tell you all about it.”
Ms. Amy believes that learning should be fun for kids. “At this age they should be able to enjoy learning and be able to learn and explore what they want. It is important as teachers that we are there to help, facilitate, monitor and help guide children when they are learning instead of making them do activities that they are not interested in. I also believe that children should be able to express their emotions, and as educators we should talk to children about their emotions.”
Ms. Amy is a foodie but instead of having a bucket list of places, she has a bucket list of foods she wants to try, and every time when going somewhere she checks if she can find any food from her bucket list there. Ms. Amy is one of the very few people who actually chose their own name! Her birth name is Nhi but when she was in preschool, she came back home one day and told her parents that her name was Amy, and everyone has been calling her Amy since then!
