Ms. Cristina Barragan (Beetle Classroom)

Cristina Barragan  graduated from the Montessori Institute of San Diego in 2005 and worked at a local Montessori school for 7 years.

 

In 2012, she moved to Huntington Beach for another job offer to open a new Spanish Immersion in the Toddler Program. It was a wonderful experience to witness how quickly young children learn other languages.

 

It was upon speaking to a friend who took the Montessori training in 2001 that sparked Cristina's interest in this educational system. After doing some research she fell in love with the Montessori philosophy and approach. She loved the fact that it is designed to help children individually with their task of inner construction physically and intellectually and offers the essential elements for optimal development. “Education as an aid to life” is the quote that captured her attention.

 

She writes: "I am interested in anything that is interesting. I tend to gravitate towards computer, science, and music. I will just as likely find an article on a political, religious, or historical topic just as interesting as an article about astronauts in space or even an interesting book.  I have played the guitar and piano since I was 8 and have become fairly accomplished at it. Music is important to me, and I find it to be a satisfying relaxation.  I can never tell when I will be interested in something. But that is what makes life an interesting hodgepodge of many facts, experiences, activities, and lessons.

I love working with children and my ultimate objective at Lifetime Montessori School is to help the students to learn independently and retain the curiosity, creativity, and intelligence with which they were born and to prepare and maintain the physical, intellectual, and social/emotional environment within which the children will work and develop."