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Tarryn Welsh

Sunbury,Australia

Summary

Early Childhood Educator with extensive experience in South Africa, South Korea and Australia, dedicated to enhancing student and school success. Proven ability to create nurturing learning environments that foster emotional, social, and educational development. Skilled in implementing developmentally appropriate activities that promote holistic growth and well-being. Committed to supporting physical, emotional, and social health to drive academic achievement.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Early Childhood Educator

Dewdrops Childcare Centre
Moreland, Australia
05.2022 - Current
  • Providing excellent care and guidance as an Early Childhood Educator moving between age groups of babies, toddlers, and kindergarteners (ages 0-5)
  • Providing a secure, loving, and nurturing environment for the children on a daily basis; promoting the mental, social, and educational development and overall well-being.
  • Utilising daily activities that promote and enhance the children's fine motor skills, gross motor skills, social skills, vocabulary skills and overall growth and development.
  • Promoted a love of literacy and numeracy through various activities designed specifically for the various age groups.
  • Through conscious and loving daily actions, I am able to build unique relationships with each child that is rooted in trust, respect, dignity, with a keen interest in developing the whole child emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
  • Supervising daily meals, putting children to sleep, keeping them active and changing nappies.

Birth and Postpartum Doula

Self-Employed
Sunbury, Australia
05.2022 - Current
  • Founded a business in May 2022 as a birth and postpartum doula, focusing on postpartum support for mothers and newborns up to five years old.
  • Delivered comprehensive physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual support to mothers and babies post-birth.
  • Prepared nourishing meals and shared recipes to promote healing for mothers after childbirth.
  • Managed general household tasks, including light housework, grocery shopping, meal preparation, and care for older siblings.

Travel Agent

Flight Centre
Melbourne, Australia
01.2019 - 12.2019
  • Observed and taught under the conditions that applied to all teachers employed at the above schools (including the SACE Professional Code of Ethics), abiding by any and all rules of these schools.
  • Daily lesson planning, classroom management, class supervision, observation, and teaching of learners (under the supervision of a mentor teacher; sole responsibility was often required).
  • Maintaining standards of good behavior by applying assertive discipline.
  • Commended for ability to redirect students exhibiting behaviour problems.
  • Extra-curricular activities: Hockey practice, coaching and match supervision, and after-school homework supervision.

Secondary Candidate Consultant

Empowering Learning
London, United Kingdom
03.2018 - 09.2019
  • Company Overview: Matched the right candidates to the right jobs, winning commendations from Management
  • Operated within a demanding sales-driven and target-driven environment ensuring KPI's were consistently met.
  • Ran my own business within the Flight Centre Travel Group; built up a large database of repeat customers from the ground.
  • Maintain regular communication with customer prior to departure to provide updated travel information, as well as, building relationships with customers to ensure an excellent retention rate.
  • Responsible for collecting and recording deposits and final payments as well as recording this in our accounting program to ensure all finances were accurate and up to date for close off each month.
  • Verify customer passports visas and state issued ID's and ensure proper identification for passage to foreign countries.
  • Prepared detailed itineraries including flights, accommodation, tours, cruises etc.
  • Investigated customer complaints and liaised with preferred suppliers and customers to resolve any disputes.
  • Target set by Team Leader was reached consistently for every month of employment.
  • Came in the Top 10 Novices in the area according to TTV sold each month.
  • Matched the right candidates to the right jobs, winning commendations from Management

Teacher

KCTY
Seoul, South Korea
03.2016 - 03.2017
  • Taught under the conditions that applied to all teachers employed by the above school, including a strict code of ethics, and abiding by all rules of this school.
  • Meticulous lesson planning, highly effective classroom management, class supervision, and teaching of learners.
  • Executing lessons that had been thoroughly thought out, planned in detail, and were in line with the school's curriculum.
  • Preparing appropriate resources and teaching materials.
  • Maintaining standards of excellent behaviour by applying assertive discipline, according to the guidelines set in place by the school.
  • Monitoring, tracking, and assessing learner's progress and providing constructive feedback to the learner and parents.
  • Participated in faculty activities and parent-teacher conferences to establish and maintain positive relationships with students, parents, fellow teachers, and school administrators / staff.
  • Increased enrolment each month while maintaining an extremely high retention of students' month-to-month in an extremely competitive marketplace.
  • Worked 52.5 hours per week teaching 50 lessons each week.
  • Had a full class of graduating kindergarteners and 100% pass rate of all students in my classes, as well as, very high-test scores for each monthly standardised test.

Student Teacher

Windsor Primary School and St. George's Grammar School
03.2015 - 08.2015
  • Taught under the conditions that applied to all teachers employed by the above school, including a strict code of ethics, and abiding by all rules of this school.
  • Meticulous lesson planning, highly effective classroom management, class supervision, and teaching of learners.
  • Executing lessons that had been thoroughly thought out, planned in detail, and were in line with the school's curriculum.
  • Preparing appropriate resources and teaching materials.
  • Maintaining standards of excellent behaviour by applying assertive discipline, according to the guidelines set in place by the school.
  • Monitoring, tracking, and assessing learner's progress and providing constructive feedback to the learner and parents.
  • Participated in faculty activities and parent-teacher conferences to establish and maintain positive relationships with students, parents, fellow teachers, and school administrators / staff.
  • Increased enrolment each month while maintaining an extremely high retention of students' month-to-month in an extremely competitive marketplace.
  • Worked 52.5 hours per week teaching 50 lessons each week.
  • Had a full class of graduating kindergarteners and 100% pass rate of all students in my classes, as well as, very high-test scores for each monthly standardised test.

Education

HLTAID012 And HLTAID009

First Aid
06-2022

Cert III Early Childhood Education -

Selmar Education
06.2022

Cert III Travel and Tourism -

Flight Centre Travel Group
11.2019

Post Graduate Certificate in Education - LoLT (Language of learning and teaching)- English, Childhood Studies Foundation Phase, Special Studies in Foundation Phase, Literacy (HL and EFAL) Foundation Phase, Mathematics, School Experience Foundation Phase, Xhosa: Communication for Educators

University of Cape Town
12.2015

Bachelor of Arts - English Language and Literature, Media and Writing, Sociology

University of Cape Town
12.2014

National Seniors Certificate - English Home Language, Afrikaans First Additional Language, Mathematics Literacy, Geography, Life Sciences, Business Studies, Life Orientation

St. Peter's College
12.2008

CPR Refresher - HLTAID001 / HLTAID009

First Aid
05-2024

Skills

  • Student development
  • Classroom management
  • Lesson Plan Development
  • Communication skills: written and verbal
  • Thorough planner and highly organised
  • Highly praised instructional delivery of lessons
  • Innovative and forward-thinking
  • Reliable
  • Hard-working
  • Responsible
  • Flexible
  • Adaptable in new and challenging situations
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Disability support
  • Care
  • Nurturing environment
  • Mental development
  • Social development
  • Educational development
  • Well-being
  • Fine-motor skills
  • Literacy promotion
  • Numeracy promotion
  • Relationship building
  • Mutual respect
  • Good rapport
  • Trust
  • Growth
  • Development

Timeline

Early Childhood Educator

Dewdrops Childcare Centre
05.2022 - Current

Birth and Postpartum Doula

Self-Employed
05.2022 - Current

Travel Agent

Flight Centre
01.2019 - 12.2019

Secondary Candidate Consultant

Empowering Learning
03.2018 - 09.2019

Teacher

KCTY
03.2016 - 03.2017

Student Teacher

Windsor Primary School and St. George's Grammar School
03.2015 - 08.2015

HLTAID012 And HLTAID009

First Aid

Cert III Early Childhood Education -

Selmar Education

Cert III Travel and Tourism -

Flight Centre Travel Group

Post Graduate Certificate in Education - LoLT (Language of learning and teaching)- English, Childhood Studies Foundation Phase, Special Studies in Foundation Phase, Literacy (HL and EFAL) Foundation Phase, Mathematics, School Experience Foundation Phase, Xhosa: Communication for Educators

University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Arts - English Language and Literature, Media and Writing, Sociology

University of Cape Town

National Seniors Certificate - English Home Language, Afrikaans First Additional Language, Mathematics Literacy, Geography, Life Sciences, Business Studies, Life Orientation

St. Peter's College

CPR Refresher - HLTAID001 / HLTAID009

First Aid

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