Kindergarten Teacher

Mónica Zetina was born in Mexico City. She a bachelor’s degree in primary education studied in Benemérita Escuela Nacional de Maestros in Mexico City from 1990 to 1994. Mónica worked in different public schools in Mexico City beginning in 1994.

From 1994 to 1996 Mónica studied a master’s degree in education at Universidad de las Américas. In 1998 she joined a program sponsored by the Mexican Ministry of Education helping students and teachers in public schools to use donated computers for teaching and learning.

From 1999 to 2001 Mónica was on a scholarship from the Japanese government to research the use of computers in Japanese schools. She did this work at Nagoya University. In 2001 Mónica returned to Mexico City to work at the Mexican Ministry of Education and was charged with training teachers in educational initiatives from the Ministry. In 2002 Mónica started working at the American School Foundation in Mexico City as a bilingual assistant teacher in the English classroom and from 2003 to 2007 she taught first grade Spanish at the same school.