Tahani El Shaer
Email: ********@**************.***
Address:
City: Dearborn Heights
State: MI
Zip: 48125
Country: USA
Phone: 313-***-****
Skill Level: Any
Salary Range:
Primary Skills/Experience:
Childcare professional skilled at remaining calm under pressure while keeping the daycare setting light and playful. Works hard to identify and address behavioral and educational issues. Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems and children's needs.
Educational Background:
High School Dipolma from Lebanese University of Education, Mount Lebanon PA 1/2001 to 7/2009 (Language, Fine Arts, and Social Science)
Job History / Details:
Summary
Childcare professional skilled at remaining calm under pressure while keeping the daycare setting light and playful. Works hard to identify and address behavioral and educational issues. Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems and children's needs.
Highlights
Monitoring/Assessing performance of myself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Exceptional organizational skills
Active listener
Positive and cheerful
Mother of 1 child
Infant, toddler and preschool curricula
Excellent communication skills
Culinary aptitude
Schedule creation and maintenance
Head Start program knowledge
Approachable
Bilingual in Arabic
Arts and crafts aptitude
Conflict resolution techniques
Calm and patient
Behavior management techniques
Reliable
Training in food handling preparation
Basic clerical knowledge
Classroom management
Actively looking for ways to help people.
honest and ethical.
sensitive to others' needs and feelings
maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
Interactive teaching/learning
Experience working special needs students
Effectively work with parents
Accomplishments
Obtained my Bachelor's degree in Education in Human Behavior from daycare and Pre-school to elementary and secondary Education.
Experienced in teaching for 2 years in Beirut, Lebanon.
Cared for and home schooled a child from infancy to second grade.
Worked with special needs children, including those with learning disabilities, mental challenges and physical impairments.
Experience
January 2008 to March 2010
St. George Daycare/Elementary and High School Beirut, Lebanon
Daycare Teacher
Read stories to the children and taught them painting, drawing and crafts.
Employed a variety of materials for children to explore and manipulate in learning activities and imaginative play.
Disciplined children and recommended other measures to correct behavior.
Created an infant area, toddler area and preschool area of play within the daycare.
Carefully monitored children's play activities.
Offered detailed daily reports that outlined each child's activities.
Incorporated music and art activities to encourage creativity and expression.
Maintained daily records of activities, behaviors, meals and naps.
Carefully identified warning signs of emotional and developmental problems in children.
Escorted children on outings and trips to local parks and zoos.
Created and implemented a developmentally appropriate curriculum.
Sparked creativity and imagination by helping children discover new things each day.
Education
2009 Lebanese University of Education Beirut,
BBA Language, Fine Arts, and Social Science
Coursework in Early Childhood Education.
Coursework in Child Development.
Coursework in Fine Arts.
Coursework in Social Science.