KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. - Regina Weber, a teacher at Rainbow Childcare of Monroe Inc., has been selected to receive the 2018 Terri Lynne Lokoff Children's Tylenol, Children's Zyrtec National Child Care Teacher Award from the Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation.
Weber was selected from a pool of applicants nationwide. A total of 50 National Child Care Teacher Award recipients were selected. Each recipient designed an enhancement project that illustrates the educational, social and emotional benefits for the children in their care.
A committee of national early childhood educators and experts reviewed and scored the applications. Each recipient will receive a $1,000 award: $500 to implement their proposed project and $500 to acknowledge their dedication. Weber will receive her award at 7 p.m. April 14 at a special ceremony at Marriot Downtown, Philadelphia.
The award will be used to implement Weber's project "Preschool Social Skills." She will be adding board games, puppets, a puppet stage and books to the classroom. Playing games and doing puppet shows will encourage the children to have creative play and grow friendships as they work together in the activities.
Rainbow has been using a kindness curriculum this year that refers to many children's books that tell about feelings on the inside and the outside. Through play and group times, children explore social interaction together.
Weber began the early childhood program at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville and was hired in June 1994 at Rainbow Childcare as a preschool teacher, where she has taught for almost 24 years as a preschool teacher, school-age program director and a toddler teacher. She currently teaches preschoolers, ages three to four.
She lives with her husband and two children in Monroe. She enjoys scrapbooking, reading and cooking and playing disc golf, biking, hiking, listening to music and playing board games with her family.
Weber was selected from a pool of applicants nationwide. A total of 50 National Child Care Teacher Award recipients were selected. Each recipient designed an enhancement project that illustrates the educational, social and emotional benefits for the children in their care.
A committee of national early childhood educators and experts reviewed and scored the applications. Each recipient will receive a $1,000 award: $500 to implement their proposed project and $500 to acknowledge their dedication. Weber will receive her award at 7 p.m. April 14 at a special ceremony at Marriot Downtown, Philadelphia.
The award will be used to implement Weber's project "Preschool Social Skills." She will be adding board games, puppets, a puppet stage and books to the classroom. Playing games and doing puppet shows will encourage the children to have creative play and grow friendships as they work together in the activities.
Rainbow has been using a kindness curriculum this year that refers to many children's books that tell about feelings on the inside and the outside. Through play and group times, children explore social interaction together.
Weber began the early childhood program at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville and was hired in June 1994 at Rainbow Childcare as a preschool teacher, where she has taught for almost 24 years as a preschool teacher, school-age program director and a toddler teacher. She currently teaches preschoolers, ages three to four.
She lives with her husband and two children in Monroe. She enjoys scrapbooking, reading and cooking and playing disc golf, biking, hiking, listening to music and playing board games with her family.
