She has been teaching in MCPS for nineteen years. Mrs. Hamilton began her teaching career at North Bethesda Junior High School. Taking ten years off to raise a family, Mrs. Hamilton returned to teaching senior high school at Gaithersburg High School where she taught Creative Foods, Gourmet Foods and Child Development. In 1989 Quince Orchard High School offered the opportunity to teach more Child Development classes with a larger Child Development Program. Mrs. Hamilton transferred to Springbrook in 1996 to teach in a growing Child Development Program.
Additional training takes place during seminar day once a week after preschool has started.