I've been teaching children since the summer of 1997 in Taiwan, where my teaching name, "Mr. Luo", was given to me.  The next 13 years I divided my time teaching in China, Mexico and later, Taiwan again.  I ran a large childcare center in Tainan, Taiwan for three years before returning home to California.  I have been teaching here in Sacramento ever since; creating an afterschool program for disadvantaged chidren and then working at a Native American child development center.  In the fall of 2014, I opened my own school, Mr. Luo's Preschool Adaemy, a home based day care facility licensed by the State of California. 

 

My Approach to Discipline

Boundaries allow students to enjoy the most freedom and fun in a school setting.  It is my primary responsibility as an adult in a child’s emotional/ intelectual life to be clear and consistent, allowing them a safe space to try, to make mistakes and to learn, free from externally imposed fear and shame.  Children are NOT vessels which I fill with knowledge or skills.  It is my role to discern and help remove the obstacles (physical, emotional, conceptual, linguistic and social) that hinder the child’s personal development and acquisition of skills and knowledge.  

 

 

My Qualifications

            Licensed by the State of California to own and operate a Home Daycare.

            Infant/Child CPR and Pediatric First Aid certification

            Preventative Health & Safety ceritification

            18 years experience working with young children

            10 years experience working with kinder and pre-kinder.

            3 years directing a large daycare/ preschool

            Completion of all required ECE coursework

            4000+ diapers changed

            100+ bandaids applied

            Countless performances of the hokey pokey