Danielle Podlas

• Maintained fun, learning-focused atmosphere by smoothly handling conflicts and developing culture centered around collaboration and personal responsibility.
• Monitored campers behavior during activities, effectively handling discipline situations and encouraging positive behavior.
• Brainstormed and implemented creative event concepts and themes.
• Supervised, guided and assisted students during crafts, art projects, games and other activities to provide developmental stimulation.
• Performed event coordination for larger parties and gatherings.
• Created interesting and educational lesson plans and implemented activities while engaging with children.
• Planned weekly camp program schedules for sports, field trips and arts and crafts activities.
• Administration Role including:

-directing teachers

-opening and closing procedure

-tours

-parent communication

-answering phone calls

-training staff

• Scheduling Field Trips for school age children.
• Aftercare Director
• Creating a preschool and school age summer program.
• Bus Driver
• Organized field trips to off-site locations and handled scheduling, transportation and payments.

• Developing and implementation of age-appropriate lesson plans and curriculum that takes into account the individual needs of every child.
• Creating a classroom environment that makes a child feel empowered, safe and respected.
• Frequent and positive communications with parents to discuss individual child progress and goals.
• Communicating with fellow teachers on best practice for monitoring children's progress and behavior, sharing of ideas and materials, group planning for themed lesson plans and curriculum.
• Opening up the school.
• Management of front desk.
• Managing ratio's in the morning and evening hours.
• Creating new documents for staff/administration. Adding graphics and designing templates that are used on a daily basis for documentation in the school.
• Marketing and Touring