Shirisha Challa

• Positively impact the lives of young children by providing them with a nurturing and stimulating environment for their growth and development.
• Plan and implement age-appropriate activities, observe and document children's progress, and foster their social and emotional skills.
• Even though working with children requires a lot of patience, creativity, and excellent communication skills. I genuinely enjoy interacting with them, seeing their curiosity and excitement as they learn and explore the world around them.

• Maintained and fostered positive and constructive interactions with staff, families and children.
• Implemented developmentally and culturally appropriate curriculum for children, creating positive and safe classroom environments.
• Applied play-based strategies to provide diverse approaches to learning.
• Gave one-on-one attention to children while maintaining overall focus on entire group.
• Observed children to identify individuals in need of additional support and developed strategies to improve assistance.
• Teaching children using paintings, drawings, handicrafts, and songs.
• Providing activities that enhance each child’s self-concept and socialization skills.
• Organising play activities for children.
• Supervising the learning activities of children.
• Identifying those toddlers who need extra help and then giving them a helping hand.
• Assisting in the preparation of on-going curriculum plans.
• Communicated with parents and team about children learning and development
• Taking priority in the children's interests and planning activities appropriately in conjunction with parents to support their holistic development

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• Maintained daily records of children's individual activities, behaviors, meals and naps
• Read and told stories to promote and support overall language development
• Applied positive behavior management techniques to enhance social interactions and emotional development
• Enforced rules and managed behavior through developmentally appropriate discipline
• Engaged with children individually to encourage physical activity and academic curiosity
• Maintained safety and cleanliness by sterilizing toys and surfaces
• Supervised circle time, free play, outside play and learning and developmental activities
• Managed general housekeeping duties including feeding, diapering, resting, cleanup, etc
• Communicated regularly with parents about daily activities and behaviors

• Braybrook, Melbourne, Vic
• Supervised activities, health and sanitation of children
• Served children nutritious meals that followed Australian Food Guidelines
• Provided children with positive reinforcement and assisted in child development through planning of creative play and learning activities