Experience

What makes me different from others:

• I have taught more than 10,000 children, worked with over a hundred teachers (in their classrooms), and counseled thousands of parents.
• I worked in over 20 different education systems:                       National and Local Accredited Schools, Early Learning Centers, Preschools, Daycare's, Churches, Country Clubs and more.
• I worked with the same child for most of their childhood life.  For example, HeartsHome Early Learning Center.  This nationally accredited school’s curriculum covered age’s infants - kindergarten.  When a child started my program at age 2, 99% of the time, I had that same child enrolled in my program until they left HeartsHome for the first grade or moved.
• This insight allowed me to see each child’s development physically, mentally, emotionally and socially.
• When it came to siblings, there was a good possibility I knew them when they were in their mothers’ tummy.  Especially at schools like HeartsHome, Messiah Lutheran, and The Towne Creek School where children can start daycare as infants.  The emotional bond I had with these children and their families ran deep.
• I worked with over one hundred teachers for most of their teaching careers.  I observed, listened, and learned from them.  I always asked a lot of questions, and they kindly answered me. 
• I taught at national and local accredited schools:

National Association for the Education of Young Children - N.A.E.Y.C.

Houston Area Association for the Education of Young Children - H.A.A.E.Y.C.

20 years experience observing teachers in “their classroom”

I can help teachers learn:

• What to expect when it comes to a child’s behavior.
• How to control an out-of-control child or situation.
• How to have a sound communication technique based on the child’s age-appropriate development scale.
• How to prepare for what happens outside the classroom – recess, playground, and children interacting with each other.

Throughout my career:

• I discussed my theories, methods, strategies, and use of communication techniques with groups of teachers to see what they thought as trained educators.
• We discussed how parents could help them, in their classroom, so their child would have the best opportunity to succeed.
• We discussed some of the difficulties teachers face teaching their curriculum while dealing with behavior and the emotional aspects of a child’s life – coping, socializing, playing, etc..

No one has this information from my perspective.  I am the only one who worked with all of these educators.  The reason being, they never worked with each other.  I got to see them in action, in their classroom, and saw things they did with children that worked.  I borrowed ideas, molded them with my philosophy, and discovered a system that works!!!

Texas Tumblers                     since 1992

Mission Statement

Texas Tumblers is a mobile, non-competitive, age-appropriate, gross motor development program dedicated to providing high quality, low cost gymnastic classes to Pre-schools, Churches, Country Clubs, and Day Care Centers.

Schools where I have taught:

• HeartsHome Early Learning Center
• University of Texas Child Development Center
• Aquinas Early Childhood Center
• Sugar Creek Montessori School
• Memorial Montessori School
• Messiah Lutheran Early Childhood Center
• The Honor Roll School
• The Towne Creek School
• The D`Unique School of Learning
• Ft. Bend Montessori School
• Salem Lutheran
• Mission Bend United Methodist School
• Sweetwater Country Club
• New Territory Country Club
• St. Laurence Catholic School
• KinderCare
• St. Francis Episcopal Day School
• Chapelwood School for Young Children
• Memorial Drive United Methodist Children's Weekday School

Gymnastics setting

This is a detailed program defining a child’s movement through gross motor development using a gymnastics setting (Bars, Beams, Rings, trampolines, Blocks, Wedges, etc..).  Children will be moving in ways that are fun, create them to think, increase their self-esteem, and confidence.  I have detailed lesson plans and progression charts that I have used for 20+ years, and have gotten amazing results.

Gross motor development

I believe this program is essential to a child’s learning process about their body and how it works, in a fun non-competitive way.  In gross motor development all children learn at a different pace, and this class will allow them to do just that.  Having a child learn though watching others accomplish tasks or skills in a playful way is a good way for a child not to feel pressure, and learn at   their own pace.  Once a child sees others accomplish these skills safely it encourages them to try as well.  In my many years of teaching, I have noticed that every single child wants to learn how to play without getting hurt or hurting someone else, and my program will provide this. Trust me when I say, “you will see a difference in how your child plays and interacts with other children!”

An I can attitude

Teaching a child gross motor development and having them succeed increases their self-esteem, and gives them the confidence to do things they my initially have been scared of.  Once a child starts to feel comfortable about how their body works, they start to have an “I CAN ATTITUDE”.  This class is strictly based on a child’s will to want to learn, and I will never make a child do something they are not willing or ready to do.  Hearing a child say, "I did it" is priceless.

Here is my cell phone number 713 409-5604, in case you have any questions.

Coach Bruce