During her study Orthopedagogy Karla became interested in secondary learning problems which children between the ages of 4 and 18 face. She supervised children and parents at both primary and secondary school. It was a challenge to stimulate a child’s learning process in different ways and to use specific learning resources or to develop them together with the school.
Since 2002 she has been working as an NT2 teacher, trainer and examiner. As an advisor and board member, in addition to teaching NT2 and training self-organizations, both in the Netherlands and in Suriname, she has also contributed to projects in the field of Education, Integration and Participation in the context of Emancipation and poverty reduction.
Karla likes to make sculptures of stone in her spare time and enjoys art and culture in general. She also plays the piano. In her NT2 lessons she likes to use creative, interactive, working methods such as a games or singing songs and much more…