Experience

UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Child Development Associate

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  Responsibilities: • Build close, secure relationships with infants and toddlers in a two-year looping program through meaningful interactions and experiences within the framework of daily routine care. • Maintain an organized, safe, and healthy infant room environment, and create an atmosphere of positivity through calm, present demeanor. • Form strong partnerships with parents, communicating regularly about their child’s growth and ongoing activities in the classroom. Accomplishments: • Write engaging infant/toddler lesson plans based on children’s individual interests, milestones, and areas for growth. • Continuously manage time wisely and work with parents and teaching team to create schedules that best suit children’s individual needs within a classroom with a wide age range. • Regularly evaluate children’s physical, mental, and social-emotional development, and hold conferences with parents. • Implement and maintain stimulating, developmentally appropriate classroom materials including sensory wall, reading canopy, and incorporation of many natural elements in the infant room, including habitats for insects and aquatic animals. Skills Used: • Using current knowledge of infant and toddler development and best practices to support children as they grow and prepare for a new toddler environment. • Completing organized and regular documentation of children’s milestones and areas for growth using Highscope COR curriculum, and writing lesson plans based on these current anecdotes. • Utilizing creative and artistic skills to create a visually beautiful and vibrant classroom. Show less



Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Kingergarten Paraprofessional

  • Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

  Responsibilities: • Assist lead teacher with daily classroom routines and responsibilities, as well as walking children to and from school buses, filling lunch and recess duties, and providing support during daily specials classes such as art, library, P.E., etc. • Aide children with special needs and ESL students who require extra learning support during literacy and math lessons. • Maintain an organized, efficient, and engaging kindergarten classroom. • Aide lead teacher in daily communication with parents regarding their child’s behavior, classroom news, and upcoming school events. Accomplishments: • Greatly improved classroom leadership skills and continued learning behavior management skills for an older age group than prior work experiences. • Gained self-assurance and comfortability in taking charge of the classroom when the lead teacher was out or needed assistance with small group learning activities. • Contributed to a brighter, more colorful classroom through the creation of new decorations, learning materials for literacy and math centers, and art activities depicting the children’s current favorite characters from group read-along books. Show less



McCraven Child Development Center

• Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota

• Child and Youth Program Assistant - Toddler Classroom

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

  Responsibilities: • Assist lead teacher in guidance and care of ten 12-24 month-olds, collaborating to create weekly lesson plans and implement enriching activities at NAEYC-accredited center. • Provide responsive, developmentally appropriate, relationship-based care to infants and toddlers. • Communicate regularly with parents, forging professional partnerships. Accomplishments: • Gained confidence and skill in leading classroom activities, communicating with parents, and using positive guidance. • Fostered children’s healthy, happy development through observation-based lesson planning and making use of teachable moments, catering to multiple developmental domains. • Incorporated more sensory and creative arts activities into classroom routine. • Successfully completed all U.S.A.F. child development center training modules. Show less



Bright Beginnings Child Care

• Summerset, South Dakota

• Infant Caregiver

  • Jul 2013 - Dec 2013

  Responsibilities: • Daily routine care and provision of enriching experiences for ten infants age six weeks to one year, along with co-teacher. • Communicate regularly with families regarding children’s progress and daily routine. Accomplishments: • Organized nursery and maintained safe, healthy, happy environment for infants. • Managed time efficiently to ensure that each infant had basic needs provided and still had time for one-on-one bonding with caregiver each day, in spite of high ratio. Show less



A-1 Plus Home Health Care

• Colleyville, TX

• Pediatric Home Health Aide

  • May 2012 - May 2013

  Responsibilities: • Tutoring for a young boy with developmental delays. • Occupational therapy, consisting primarily of fun in-home projects and creative games to build fine motor skills. • Plan and invent fun activities to build fine motor skills and practice communication. Accomplishments: • Improvement in fine motor skills. • Improvement in problem solving process, focus, and perseverance with homework. Responsibilities: • Tutoring for a young boy with developmental delays. • Occupational therapy, consisting primarily of fun in-home projects and creative games to build fine motor skills. • Plan and invent fun activities to build fine motor skills and practice communication. Accomplishments: • Improvement in fine motor skills. • Improvement in problem solving process, focus, and perseverance with homework.