She has taught severely emotionally disturbed, RSP, physically handicapped, bilingual kindergarten, and all levels of regular classrooms. She was the Education Director of Charter Psychiatric Hospital for four years, teaching both the children and the adolescents and an active participant in the therapeutic team. She presently teaches puppetry, guitar, video production, and web design in a residence for SED boys. In South East Asia, for centuries upon centuries puppet shows were the most honored and primary tool for transmitting history, religion, culture, ethics, politics and social behavior. Puppetry was recognized as a grand teaching tool.
Puppets are inherently interesting, often humorous, and first-rate story tellers.
But puppetry in the classroom can be more than story telling and fun. Today, teachers are facing the challenge of instructing children with diverse needs and abilities. Students once placed in special classes for physical, mental, psychological and behavioral disabilities, are now being placed in the regular classroom, and this is in addition to students who speak different languages and come from different cultures. There are many ways to do these. But teaching with puppets is one of the easiest and most fun.