Teacher Patricia Pacheco-Beton
Chopin Seniors (Kinder) Level Coordinator and Consultant

Teacher Patricia, or Teacher Pach as her students fondly call her, is a licensed psychologist, a licensed professional teacher and is a certified Orton Gillingham trainer. She serves as a Curriculum Consultant and Coordinator at Mindbuilders Preschool and has been in the academe focusing on the early childhood education for more than ten years. Teacher Pach is also practicing her psychology profession at Lighter Loads Counseling and Wellness Center as an attending consultant/clinician focusing on childhood to adults.
Her experiences in the early level, as well as being a mom to a preschool daughter, continue to inspire her to explore different ways on how children can learn better through socialization, play, and experience. Through these, it has given her an opportunity to see how a parent and an educator can cater to the different needs of each child and parent in today’s world.
It continues to open her love for learning in examining how social interaction and emotions can be integrated through play, arts, and music.
Across different applied strategies, theories, and learned skills, Teacher Pach aims to allow children to navigate their curiosity and help explore their different emotions through play and socialization. As she moves forward to pursue this interest, she is now beginning to offer programs that target the socio-emotional learning of children and how parents can better assist their children in labeling, discussing, and processing their feelings and emotions through arts, music, and play.