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Fritzi Burnside

Waukegan,IL

Summary

I have extensive experience in childcare both group and private, retail, and food service. My experience in these fields has allowed me to develop excellent soft skills that can be easily translated into any position.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Substitute Teacher

Kokua Education
10.2024 - Current
  • Followed classroom plans left by class teacher to continue student education and reinforce core concepts.
  • Upheld classroom routines to support student environments and maintain consistent schedules.
  • Developed strong rapport with students through consistent encouragement and support, fostering a positive learning atmosphere conducive to academic growth.
  • Repeatedly requested as substitute teacher by teachers based on excellent past referrals and trusted performance.
  • Maintained day-to-day classroom management and discipline to promote learning initiatives.
  • Enhanced classroom management by implementing positive reinforcement strategies and maintaining clear expectations for behavior.
  • Supervised lunchroom and recess activities.
  • Provided support to special education students in inclusive classrooms, developing accommodations and modifications to meet their unique needs.
  • Maintained accurate records of student attendance, grades, and progress reports, ensuring timely submission to administration for reporting purposes.
  • Developed and executed lesson plans to cover required curriculum effectively.
  • Engaged parents and guardians in their children's learning process through regular communication and feedback.
  • Utilized variety of assessment tools to evaluate student progress and inform instruction adjustments.
  • Assisted in development of individualized education plans for students requiring additional support, contributing to their academic success.
  • Fostered positive classroom environment, managing student behavior and promoting respect.
  • Adapted quickly to different classroom settings and teaching assignments, demonstrating flexibility and resourcefulness.
  • Encouraged critical thinking and problem-solving skills through project-based learning activities.

Cashier Specialist

Sams Club
06.2023 - 08.2024
  • Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
  • Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
  • Help customers find the location of products.
  • Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
  • Greet customers entering establishments.
  • Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
  • Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans.
  • Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
  • Answer incoming phone calls.
  • Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items.
  • Stock shelves, sort and reshelve returned items, and mark prices on items and shelves.
  • Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.
  • Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
  • First line loss prevention.
  • Monitor and assist self-checkout.

Infant Room Teacher

Here We Grow Academy LLC
08.2022 - 06.2023
  • Maintain a safe play environment.
  • Observe and monitor children's play activities.
  • Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
  • Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
  • Sanitize toys and play equipment.
  • Dress children and change diapers.
  • Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
  • Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
  • Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
  • Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
  • Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
  • Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
  • Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
  • Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
  • Regulate children's rest periods.
  • Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
  • Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
  • Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
  • Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
  • Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.

Call Center Student Manager

Carthage College Phoneathon
08.2019 - 05.2022
  • Deliver prepared sales talks, reading from scripts that describe products or services, to persuade potential customers to purchase a product or service or to make a donation.
  • Contact businesses or private individuals by telephone to solicit sales for goods or services, or to request donations for charitable causes.
  • Obtain customer information such as name, address, and payment method, and enter orders into computers.
  • Record names, addresses, purchases, and reactions of prospects contacted.
  • Adjust sales scripts to better target the needs and interests of specific individuals.
  • Telephone or write letters to respond to correspondence from customers or to follow up initial sales contacts.

Summer School Teacher

Center For Urban Teaching
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students.
  • Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
  • Instruct students individually and in groups, using teaching methods such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
  • Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
  • Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
  • Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
  • Enforce administration policies and rules governing students.
  • Read books to entire classes or small groups.
  • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
  • Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
  • Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, and storytelling.
  • Assign and grade class work and homework.
  • Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as school library assistance, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
  • Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
  • Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
  • Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
  • Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
  • Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems or with special academic interests.

Crew

Sodexo
09.2018 - 07.2021
  • Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment, utensils, dishes, or silverware.
  • Store food in designated containers and storage areas to prevent spoilage.
  • Portion and wrap food, or place it directly on plates for service to patrons.
  • Take and record temperature of food and food storage areas, such as refrigerators and freezers.
  • Prepare a variety of foods, such as meats, vegetables, or desserts, according to customers' orders or supervisors' instructions, following approved procedures.
  • Place food trays over food warmers for immediate service, or store them in refrigerated storage cabinets.
  • Package take-out foods or serve food to customers.
  • Stock cupboards and refrigerators, and tend salad bars and buffet meals.
  • Wash, peel, and cut various foods, such as fruits and vegetables, to prepare for cooking or serving.
  • Carry food supplies, equipment, and utensils to and from storage and work areas.
  • Cut, slice or grind meat, poultry, and seafood to prepare for cooking.
  • Remove trash and clean kitchen garbage containers.
  • Receive and store food supplies, equipment, and utensils in refrigerators, cupboards, and other storage areas.
  • Weigh or measure ingredients.
  • Add cutlery, napkins, food, and other items to trays on assembly lines in hospitals, cafeterias, airline kitchens, and similar establishments.
  • Use manual or electric appliances to clean, peel, slice, and trim foods.
  • Scrape leftovers from dishes into garbage containers.
  • Load dishes, glasses, and tableware into dishwashing machines.
  • Make special dressings and sauces as condiments for sandwiches.
  • Mix ingredients for green salads, molded fruit salads, vegetable salads, and pasta salads.
  • Operate cash register, handle money, and give correct change.
  • Keep records of the quantities of food used.
  • Vacuum dining area and sweep and mop kitchen floor.
  • Assemble meal trays with foods in accordance with patients' diets.
  • Stir and strain soups and sauces.
  • Prepare and serve a variety of beverages, such as coffee, tea, and soft drinks.

Crew

Little Caesars
08.2017 - 07.2018
  • Prepare and serve a variety of beverages, such as coffee, tea, and soft drinks.
  • Stir and strain soups and sauces.
  • Vacuum dining area and sweep and mop kitchen floor.
  • Operate cash register, handle money, and give correct change.
  • Mix ingredients for green salads, molded fruit salads, vegetable salads, and pasta salads.
  • Make special dressings and sauces as condiments for sandwiches.
  • Load dishes, glasses, and tableware into dishwashing machines.
  • Scrape leftovers from dishes into garbage containers.
  • Use manual or electric appliances to clean, peel, slice, and trim foods.
  • Add cutlery, napkins, food, and other items to trays on assembly lines in hospitals, cafeterias, airline kitchens, and similar establishments.
  • Assist cooks and kitchen staff with various tasks as needed, and provide cooks with needed items.
  • Inform supervisors when equipment is not working properly and when food and supplies are getting low, and order needed items.
  • Weigh or measure ingredients.
  • Receive and store food supplies, equipment, and utensils in refrigerators, cupboards, and other storage areas.
  • Remove trash and clean kitchen garbage containers.
  • Cut, slice or grind meat, poultry, and seafood to prepare for cooking.
  • Distribute food to waiters and waitresses to serve to customers.
  • Carry food supplies, equipment, and utensils to and from storage and work areas.
  • Wash, peel, and cut various foods, such as fruits and vegetables, to prepare for cooking or serving.
  • Stock cupboards and refrigerators, and tend salad bars and buffet meals.
  • Package take-out foods or serve food to customers.
  • Place food trays over food warmers for immediate service, or store them in refrigerated storage cabinets.
  • Prepare a variety of foods, such as meats, vegetables, or desserts, according to customers' orders or supervisors' instructions, following approved procedures.
  • Take and record temperature of food and food storage areas, such as refrigerators and freezers.
  • Portion and wrap food, or place it directly on plates for service to patrons.
  • Store food in designated containers and storage areas to prevent spoilage.
  • Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment, utensils, dishes, or silverware.

Education

High School Diploma -

Waukegan High School
05.2018

Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education

Carthage College
Kenosha, WI
06-2027

Skills

  • Good customer service skills
  • Ability to receive and implement direction
  • Good problem solving/critical thinking skills
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Adaptable
  • Can implement group and individual instruction
  • Activity planning
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Activity management
  • Instructional technology
  • Trained mandated reporter

Certification

  • Infant and Child First Aid and CPR
  • Childcare license
  • Short term substitute teaching certified

Timeline

Substitute Teacher

Kokua Education
10.2024 - Current

Cashier Specialist

Sams Club
06.2023 - 08.2024

Infant Room Teacher

Here We Grow Academy LLC
08.2022 - 06.2023

Summer School Teacher

Center For Urban Teaching
06.2021 - 08.2021

Call Center Student Manager

Carthage College Phoneathon
08.2019 - 05.2022

Crew

Sodexo
09.2018 - 07.2021

Crew

Little Caesars
08.2017 - 07.2018

High School Diploma -

Waukegan High School

Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education

Carthage College

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