Renée Berg has a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education. Her Master's Degree is in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena. Renée also holds a Multi-subject Teacher's Credential and a SAG card.
Renée Berg has been working with children all of her life.
She began working with children with Down Syndrome while in the highly gifted program during fourth and fifth grades. While a student at UC Berkeley, Renée worked as a paraprofessional at the California School for the Blind. She worked with children in the "Helen Keller Bungalow" serving children with multiple special needs including mental retardation, deafness, and blindness.
While in England, dancing for United Artists Records, Renée taught yoga and dance at an adventure playground in the Islington area of London as a volunteer and at Der Meelkweg in Amsterdam. After returning to San Francisco, Renée received a teaching credential in dance, and began teaching dance as an enrichment at Mission High School. She also ran her own dance school working cooperatively with Antioch College West, Ft. Mason Foundation, Warner Brothers Records, and adult education of SF public schools.
Renée currently teaches at Valley College and several other Southern California Community Colleges, as well as at Cal State University Northridge where she is a fellow. Renée teaches a broad spectrum of classes in the field of Child Development and Teacher Preparation in which she contextualizes theory through hands-on curricular application. Renée is an ongoing volunteer in several local public schools. She and her writing partner, Karen Wirth, recently completed the first of a seven book series, Planning Learning, which has been well received by publishers and CSUN.
Renée believes that testing does not produce learning but anxiety, which produces inappropriate neurochemicals for optimal learning, which is why there are no tests in Renée Berg's classes. "When in the learning process does a learner cease to be a child?"