My name is Tania Păduraru Răduţă and I am one of the Avenorian Learning Leaders who feels fulfilled with the main roles in my life: learning, being a mother, and teaching. I invite you to find out more about my learning journey below.

I have been working at Avenor since 2007, first as a teacher and since 2011, as an age-range coordinator. Starting with the 2016-2017 school year, I took on the responsibility of Educational Coordinator for the entire nursery, with the focus on developing a creative learning community across the whole nursery school; Nursery, Reception and Year 1.

After more than 10 years at Avenor I am enthusiastic to continue my mission, together with the Educational Leadership team and the experienced teachers of the Nursery as their Academic Learning Lead.

Additionally, I will continue to do what I like best; to be a teacher. I feel tremendously fortunate as I continue to have the great opportunity to teach various activities in all age-groups, together with the main class teachers.

Education is my passion and I ensure that I am a continuous learner myself.  At the end of the previous school year I have passed the Level 1 School Inspector training course and I am currently enrolled for Level 2.

I graduated in Psychology and Educational Sciences from the University of Bucharest, specialising in Primary School and Nursery School Pedagogy in 2011 and achieved my degree (Definitivat) in 2013.

After joining Avenor, I regularly attended different continuous professional development courses, studying practical aspects of the English Early Years curriculum, focusing on the development and personal characteristics of 2 to 6-year-old children, such as an EYFS Teaching Diploma as well as ‘Mind Lab’, and ‘Leading Learning from the Middle’certificates.

I have attended different local and international Early Years Conferences and have taken part in various workshops and masterclasses, such as ‘The positive relationships that support self-regulation in nursery’, ‘Going on a Language Hunt’, ‘Specific Area of Learning, Literacy – laying the foundations’, ‘Meaningful Maths – learning through physical play’, ‘Jolly Grammar’, ‘The characteristics of effective learning: thinking critically’, ‘Reggio-inspired practice: creative journeys with young children’, and ‘Bringing the Montessori Approach in own Setting’.

I have come to realise how important it is to focus on the welfare of a child, starting first of all with the personal and emotional aspects, and continuing with the academic aspects.

Working with children has made me realise that it is very important to gain their trust by listening to them, learning together and always, always keeping promises. At the same time, I strongly believe that in order to support children’s progress, it is mandatory to enable good, transparent cooperation with parents and for this reason I always perceive parents as partners in education. Only together (parents, teachers and children) can we co-create our best future.

I know for a fact that the children’s world is my world too, a world full of stories and music combined with motivation, curiosity and hard work; a world one can discover, too, through Avenor Nursery.

Therefore, throughout the school year, together with the whole Avenor team of teachers we will continue to collaborate when planning, always starting from the children’s needs and interests in order to build their levels of self-confidence and independence, engage them in the learning process, and allow them to learn from mistakes.

I am looking forward to spreading my passion for teaching and learning during this school year!