About me
Ms. Lau begins her twelfth year of teaching at Deerfield Elementary in the APAAS Program. Before being part of the Falcons family, she taught second grade at Beacon Park Elementary. This follows her years at Tarbut V’ Torah, a private Jewish Community Day School in Irvine where she served as Grade Level Team lead, Student Council Advisor and taught second, fourth, and fifth grade. Prior to that, she moved from Northern California (Bay Area) where she was a dual immersion Mandarin and English teacher for 2nd grade. A bilingual speaker in both Mandarin and Cantonese, Ms. Lau graduated from University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and minor in Education. She received her Master of Arts in Education from UCI as well and also holds a supplemental credential in music instruction and is also a GATE teacher. She was born and raised in Southern California and started her career in missionary work in the countries of Mexico, China, and Serbia where she taught students English and music.