Sharlyn M. Smith
Position:
Lead Toddler Teacher; Associate Director; Mentor Teacher; JMS
Teaching Montessori Since:
1993 (Assisting in Montessori classrooms from 1990 – 1992)
Educational Background
B.A International Affairs
B.A. Japanese Language and Literature
University of Colorado, 1984
AMI Montessori Primary Diploma, 1993
Montessori Institute Northwest, Portland Oregon
AMI Montessori Assistance to Infancy Diploma, 2002
The Montessori Institute, Denver Colorado
M.Ed., 2003
Loyola College, Baltimore Maryland
Certificates
B.A. Japanese Language and Literature, University of Colorado
B.A. International Affairs, University of Colorado
M.Ed., Loyola College
AMI Diploma Assistance to Infancy (Birth to Three); Denver Colorado
AMI Diploma Primary (Three to Six), Portland Oregon
SEA-AEYC Early Childhood Educator and Advocate of the Year, 2007
Favorite Children’s Books
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge; by Mem Fox
The Long Red Scarf; by Nette Hilton
Harry Potter; by J.K. Rowling
Personals
No one would be more surprised than Sharlyn that she would end up in the teaching profession. She had no idea that when she took a job as an assistant at the Juneau Montessori School in the summer of 1990 she would discover her passion in terms of work. The Montessori Method of education had a remarkable way of getting under her skin, changing her understanding and perspective of what it meant to “educate” young children.
