Jong Ryu is the assistant teacher in Patty’s Children’s House classroom. She graduated from Korea National University of Education and has 2 bachelor’s degrees in elementary education and music education. She has been a head teacher for over 14 years at an elementary school and middle school in Korea and a pre-K assistant teacher Clifton Park. She has 2 beautiful sons who both  graduated from Montessori Kindergarten. Jong began focusing on early childhood education after raising them. She has lived in Korea, Germany and the United States and has an understanding of many different cultures and hopes to share these things with others at Malta Montessori.