Maggie Lam, Teacher

Maggie truly invests in children. She seizes many opportunities to generate friendly conversation between herself and a child or between two children. She is tuned into children and understands their cues. She asks questions, describes what she sees a child doing and she listens carefully to children's communicative efforts. During Maggie's one-to-one conversation, she works to prolong the interchange. She values tossing the conversational ball back forth as a sound way to build a child's fluency and foster the development of expressive and receptive language skills. Maggie understands that a close relationship exists between language competence and intellectual development.