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DENISE N. EAST

Professional Info

Highlights

 

  • Love working with children and am highly passionate about quality care

  • Work with children ages 0-13 implementing learning activities and school readiness

  • Maintained a position of trust by managing and protecting confidential information.

  • Highly organized, good use of time management skills to meet deadlines and changing priorities with high degree of accuracy

  • Proactive and able to continuously manage change in an extremely fast paced, energetic work environment

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate and connect with others at all levels

  • Collaborated with non-profit organizations helping vulnerable children around the globe.

Work Experience

Center Support

Childventures Early Learning Academy - Richmond Hill, On

January 2022-Present

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  • Carryout leadership roles, teamwork skills, daily observations and maintain child records

  • Supervised and provide healthy and safe environment children from Infancy to age 6

  • Engaged in professional development opportunities within the company and actively participated in company curriculum training sessions towards certifications in High Scope, Core Knowledge and Montessori teaching methods

  • Planned and created lessons and activities to prepare for school readiness enhancing children’s development in all domains of early learning

  • Entertained children with stories and followed up with questions and activities to engage children in retelling the events of stories

  • Supervised and engaged with children in specialty drama, art and music rooms

  • Assisted children with special needs

  • Implemented activities indoors and outdoors

  • Communicated with ministry staff and other regulatory bodies regarding licensing requirements and inspection visits

  • Ensured that communication and documentations are recorded through program evaluation tools for high quality assurance

  • Actively supported representation of a variety of cultures and value systems with activities, and pedagogical documentation

  • Ensured that safety, health and wellbeing, belonging, expression and engagement were a daily practice and priority

Artistic Gymnastics Coach

  • Coach boys and girls ages 4-12 in competitive artistic gymnastics.

  • Practice and follow all safety procedures at all times.

  • Encourage and support each child in their skill development in a nurturing environment

  • Promote fun, fitness and fundamentals while engaging children

  • Prepare lesson plans

  • Set up area with needed equipment before a class begins

  • Greet and introduce myself to class

  • Take attendance

  • Report to head coach

Education

University of Guelph Humber - Toronto, ON
September 2021-April 2023

Honors Bachelor of Applied Science in Early Childhood Studies

Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning North Campus - Toronto, ON
Jan 2020-August 2021

Diploma in Early Childhood Education with Honors

Volunteer Work

Bright Futures NGO & Human Dreams Children’s Village and ABC Daycare
February 2021-July 31, 2021 Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

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  • Volunteer for three NGO organizations in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

  • Planned, designed, implemented playful learning activities for children ages 3-6

  • Assisted in space planning for one organization that has 20 children enrolled at the center

  • Initiated a fundraising event in Gofundme to help raise funds for one of the centers in need

  • Donated funds went to one NGO organization to help purchase a new refrigerator

  • Responded to the children’s immediate nutritional needs by raising money to buy a variety of nutritional foods.

  • Created sensory boards for the children use while engaging and exploring free play

  • Advised and helped to plan everyday curriculum for one the NGO centres

  • Offered advice on how to observe the children’s needs

  • Greeted all children and staff with a vibrant, happy and passionate personality

  • Listened to the educators and what the needs or concerns were and acted to provide the best responses

  • Planned and created a sketch for a new school which was then given to a team of architects who were able to create a blueprint for the project

  • Assisted in finding new land to buy plots to build the new school on

 

Humber College - Toronto, ON

 

Field Practicum 1 - Online 

Preschool Age

Winter, 2021

 

Field Practicum 2 - Humber Child Development Center

Infant Age

Summer 2021

 

Field Practicum 3 - Humber Child Development Center

Summer 2021

Accomplishments

Skills

  • Effective interpersonal communication, listening, verbal and written skills

  • Storytelling and script development for children’s christmas paly

  • Computer skills

  • Intermediate artistic ability in drawing, painting and sketching 

  • Model in fashion shows 

  • Dance and background acting for movies and music videos

  • Photography

Certifications

HSPNET

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  • AODA - Working together

  • FHSW - Student Privacy and Confidentiality

  • Worker Health and Safety Awareness

  • Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems

  • Workplace Violence and Harassment

  • Certified Gymnastics Coach

  • Certified Level ll Reiki Practitioner

  • Police Check

  • CPR level C and first Aid

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