Phone: 206-780-1363
Email:
Degrees and Certifications:
AS, Pre-pharmacy, Olympic College, 1990 BA, Spanish Language and Linguistics, University of Washington, 1993 MiT, Secondary Education, Spanish, University of Washington, 1999
Sra. Patricia Láhtinen
- fully-charged Chromebook (provided by BISD)
- composition or spiral-bound notebook
- 3-ring binder, pencils, colored pens, highlighter, and 3-hole punched loose-leaf lined paper
- planner (one will be provided by BHS)
With her parents' encouragement, Sra. Láhtinen graduated from Bremerton High School a semester early and went to Gualeguaychú, Argentina, to live with her cousins and attend their all-girls Catholic school as an exchange student. It completely changed the course of her life.
When she returned to the US, she earned her degree in Spanish at the University of Washington and then went to Sonobe, Kyoto, Japan, to teach English for two years. She and her husband took five months to return to Washington, traveling through Bali, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Mongolia, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Scotland, Portugal, Spain, and Argentina.
After earning her Master in Teaching degree from UW, she raised two wonderful children and then returned to teaching. She spent five years teaching Spanish in grades 1-8 at Madrona Waldorf School on Bainbridge Island, and now this is her fourth year at Bainbridge High School.
When she's not teaching or playing Settlers of Catan or Mario Party with her family, Sra. Láhtinen sings with Byway and Schola Nova on Bainbridge and The Esoterics in Seattle. She also enjoys traveling. She and her family just spent a month this summer in Europe seeing the highlights in Edinburgh, London, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Valencia, Granada, Ronda, Sevilla, Córdoba, and Madrid and had a great time! In the future she hopes to revisit Scandinavia, Japan, the Grand Canyon, hike one of the pilgrimage routes of the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, have a Waldorf teaching adventure in Argentina, and finally get to visit and explore México and the countries south of it, and she really hopes to study Arabic and visit the Middle East!
