Melissa Plunkett
- At July 28, 2018
- By CGMontessori
- In Teaching Staff
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Melissa majored in Physical Education with a minor in business and non-profits at IUPUI and received her Elementary 6-12 teacher training certification from the Center for Guided Montessori studies, an I.M.C. affiliate.
An avid 17 year volunteer for the American Cancer Society, she also spent 15 years at the YMCA working in various departments from Aquatics (lifeguard, swim lesson/safety teacher) to Office (as a desk worker to Assistant Manager) until her final years with the Y as the Assistant Program Director working with the Before and After School Program and as Summer Camp Director. While she always knew she wanted to work with children she never felt called to be a traditional teacher. This is where Montessori entered her life when she was searching for a school for her 2 year old! She knew this is what her child needed and soon realized this is where she also felt at home, not teaching but guiding and being a generalist in many different subjects while still getting to enjoy her specialties of math and health/fitness. As a mother of 4 and an exchange student mother of 5 more (as of 2013) she finds joy and is blessed with the time she is allowed to spend with such wonderful humans!
“This is it, Montessori is what I love, working with children is what I love, I love watching them discover and learn and learning alongside them I love the opportunity to share something I have discovered and I reveal in the genius that is the child. I am thankful each and every day to come to a job I love with people I love (short & tall) and that my children are blessed with this same experience; of going to jobs they love with people they love, who also love them. We are lucky people!”
-Melissa Plunkett