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Montana Isom
CARRIER MILLS,IL
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Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level Paraprofessional position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Wabash Area Development incHarrisburg, IL
Cook
10.2015 - 09.2015
Job overview
- Effective leader with strong decision making, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Computer literate using various reservation programs such as Aventis, Guest Bridge Reserve
- Open Table software
- Select menu items for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for children 3-5 CACFP; teachers aide, Read books to entire classes or to small groups
- Serve meals or snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines
- Prepared food items in compliance with recipes and portioning control guidelines
- Managed time by organizing and prioritizing kitchen duties to prepare and serve food quickly
- Created identical dishes numerous times daily with consistent care, attention to detail, and quality
- Developed relationships with local suppliers to obtain freshest ingredients available
- Kept kitchen clean and organized by performing daily maintenance tasks
- Measured and mixed ingredients according to precise recipes for best results
- Measured, weighed and mixed appropriate ingredients according to recipe directions
SIC, Harrsburg, IL
Teacher Aide, Janitor Kitchen
05.2004 - 07.2004
Job overview
- Perform housekeeping and cleaning duties related to children's care
- Shop for groceries, clothing, and other items needed for children's care
- Keep records of play, meal schedules, and bill payment
- Supervise and assist with homework
- Regulate children's rest periods
- Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling
- Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips
- Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books
- Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children
- 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
- Assign appropriate chores and praise targeted behaviors to encourage development of self-control, self-confidence, and responsibility
- Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans
- Transport children to schools, social outings, and medical appointments
- Organize and conduct age-appropriate recreational activities, such as games, arts and crafts, sports, walks, and play dates
- Help children with homework and school work
- Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits
- Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas
- Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls
- Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children
- Education
- Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention
- Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered
- Regulate children's rest periods and nap schedules
- Dress children and change diapers
- Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for handicapped
- Sanitize toys and play equipment
- Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts
- Observe children's behavior for irregularities, take temperature, transport children to doctor, or administer medications, as directed, to maintain children's health
- Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues
- Model appropriate social behaviors and encourage concern for others to cultivate development of interpersonal relationships and communication skills
- Teach and perform age-appropriate activities, such as lap play, reading, and arts and crafts, to encourage intellectual development of children
- Observe and monitor children's play activities
- Help prepare and serve nutritionally balanced meals and snacks for children
- Instruct children in safe behavior, such as seeking adult assistance when crossing street and avoiding contact or play with unsafe objects
- Perform first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when required
- Maintain safe play environment
- Instruct and assist children in development of health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet behavior
- Remove hazards and develop appropriate boundaries and rules to create safe environment for children
- Assisted teachers with supervision and care of group of 15 to 20 children daily
- Assisted teachers with classroom management and document coordination to maintain positive learning environment
- Supported classroom activities, tutoring, and reviewing work
- Supported student learning objectives through personalized and small group assistance
- Distributed learning materials such as worksheets, textbooks and group assignments
- Supported classroom maintenance and upkeep, organizing books and materials
- Supervised students on field trips for safety and proper behavior in public settings
- Monitored student behavior in classes, laboratories and on field trips for unsafe or rule-breaking concerns
- Shared important information with students concerning upcoming assignments and tests
- Copied, organized and distributed classroom assignments or other paperwork
Carrier mills school, Carrier mills, IL
01.2015
Job overview
- I started as a janitor then was offered a job in the kitchen in the Carrier Mills
- Grade/junior high school as I worked their a position came open for the teacher aide position
- I accepted that job a day then was a personal aide for a child and remained there then got transferred to the Carrier Mills High
- School as a personal aide there
- Vocational Certificate or Credential, Child Care Provider/Assistant.
Harrisburg High SchoolHarrisburg, IL
05.2022
Job overview
- Wired differently of child growth and development learning and teaching practices and
- June 2022 Calming Chaos
- Day in life today's Early Childhood teacher
- June 2023 Food handlers essential course
- Safety state food safety course for food handlers
- November 2021 Food protection manager certification
- Certificate- stating can rent kitchen or lunch room until 11:20 26
- June 2023 Trauma-informed webinar
- Different to help clients or children heal from trauma that may have been through
- June 2023 Mandated Reporter
- How to know signs of child abuse and neglect
- June 2023 Gateways to opportunity for professional development record
- Gateways to opportunity professional development record
- December 2022 Vocational skills
- Vocational skills received from Illinois Eastern Community College in Olney
- Illinois Child Development training Child Care topics and behavior child facilities training early childhood and services infant and toddler training managing Child Care programs OSHA aligned Health topics patient safety
- OSHA aligned Health topics hand and hygiene Healthcare safely for healthcare workers child facilities training development Early Childhood managing Child Care
Teachers aide
07.2018
Job overview
- Degree
- Licenses and Certifications
- June 2023 Advocating for the cacfp
- Advocating for the cacfp office this was a one and a half hour training of how to report our cacfp menus and foods that we
- June 2023 Racism quality of life and of the country5 our training on the different races and how we should react to our students and our families
06.2023
Job overview
- Early Childhood Health Training
- This was a 6-hour training on what the children needed to eat what they needed to drink out of what age things should be introduced to them
- June 2023 Classroom assessments Ursa hearing and vision referralshours of the basis of how the company was run
- May 2023 Early childhood development
- Learning the bases and the Baseline of where a child should be in their agehour training
- March 2023 CN labels project formulation statements
- How to read and make sure the CN label was for our age of children the product formulation statement is if case they didn't have a cacfp CN label they would have to the company would provide a product formulation
- March 2023 Credible meals in the cacfp
- This training was to make sure we read the labels to make sure we had the right food for the government funded facility
- March 2023 Using the WIC list for credible Foods in theCACFP
- Reading labels
- September 2022 Common allergens and reading food labels
- To help better understand the food allergens that our children are introduced to and how to read food labels to see what food is in it, how much sugar ,is it a whole grain
- September 0202 Serving to participants with swallowing difficulties
- This was a one hour training on foods to serve to Children 3 to 5 years old
- February 2023 CACFP and Menu Developmenthiur training on Learning the correct servings and the correct foods to serve in a government organization and also how to write menus for the classes.
10.2022
Job overview
- Sexual Harassmenthour traing on how to act properly at work around your coworkers
- August 2022 Special diet Boot Camphour traing on special diets and the different allergies that we may have to prepare for.
Mandated Reporter
08.2022
Job overview
- Hour course training on how to spot the signs of neglect and abuse of children and how to report it.
American Red cross
Aide
07.2022
Job overview
- CAcFP/Procedures/& Civil Rightshour traing on all 3 subjects, CPR ans Frist, 5 hours of training
03.2023
Job overview
- Healthy & strong with sesame Street .59CEU's from attending training
- March 2023 Good news sharing yourbCACFP story
- 50 CEU's from the training
05.2023
Job overview
- CACFP TRAINING
- I have 20 hours of CEU's from
- Attending the 2023 National Child Nutrition
- Conference in San Diego California on 05/18/2023
Skills
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition
- Personal hygiene, or social skills, to preschool students with special
- Needs
- Teach students personal development skills, such as goal setting
- Independence, or self-advocacy
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, or teacher
- Training workshops to maintain or improve professional competence
- Prepare assignments for teacher assistants or volunteers
- Prepare objectives, outlines, or other materials for courses of study
- Following curriculum guidelines or requirements
- Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children
- To explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play
- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social
- Development, and physical health
- Monitor teachers or teacher assistants to ensure adherence to special
- Education program requirements
- Modify the general preschool curriculum for special-needs students
- Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment or
- Materials to prevent injuries and damage
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining
- Order among students
- Establish and communicate clear objectives for all lessons, units, and
- Projects to students, parents, or guardians
- Montana Isom
- Work Experience
- Encourage students to explore learning opportunities or persevere with
- Challenging tasks to prepare them for later grades
- Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction
- To improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills
- Language, cognition, or memory
- Confer with parents, guardians, teachers, counselors, or administrators
- To resolve students' behavioral or academic problems
- Communicate nonverbally with children to provide them with comfort
- Encouragement, or positive reinforcement
- Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, or
- Changing their diapers
- Arrange indoor or outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill
- Activities, or safety
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
- Training and Teaching Others
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
- Coaching and Developing Others
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
- Documenting/Recording Information
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
- Getting Information
- Experience with: Microsoft Outlook, Word processing software
- Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
- American Sign Language Browser, Water tables, Sand tables
- Educational puzzles, Video cassette recorders VCR, Wireless touch
- Screen monitors, Interactive whiteboards, Educational board games
- Pegboards, Alternative computer keyboards, Toy block sets
- Communication boards
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others
- Analyzing Data or Information
- Performing Administrative Activities
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or
- Information
- Monitoring and Controlling Resources
- Selling or Influencing Others
- Staffing Organizational Units
- Interacting With Computers
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and
- Equipment
- Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
- Processing Information
- Scheduling Work and Activities
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
- Developing and Building Teams
- Developing Objectives and Strategies
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
- Thinking Creatively
- Experience with: Personal computers, Photocopying equipment
- Scheduling software, Toy block sets, Vacuum cleaners, Washing
- Machines, Water tables, Web browser software, Wet mops, Passenger
- Cars, Mobile telephones, Microwave ovens, Microsoft Word, Kitchen
- Stoves, Fire extingushers, Emergency first aid kits, Educational toys
- Educational software, Dryers, Digital medical thermometers, Desktop
- Computers, Climbing structures, Child car safety seats, Baby bottles
- Alarms
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition
- Safe Food Handling Procedures
- Food Spoilage Prevention
- High-Volume Production Capabilities
- Cleaning and Organization
- Food Preparation and Safety
- Kitchen Equipment Operation
- Order Delivery Practices
- Menu Planning
- Proper Food Temperatures
- Critical Thinking
- Mixing Dishes
- Kitchen Sanitization
- Kitchen Sanitation Management
- Servsafe Certified
- Food Allergies
- Cooking and Baking
- Chopping Vegetables
- Health Codes Understanding
- Operations Management
- Effective Planner
- Food Storage
- Dietary Restriction Support
- Developing Menus
- Proper Food Storage
- Ingredient Inspection
- Purchasing and Receiving
- New Recipe Creation
- Product Rotations
- Injury Avoidance
- OSHA Regulations Knowledge
- Store Room and Walk-In Inspections
- Food Handlers Certification
- Calculations and Measurements
- Ingredient Restocking
- Safety and Sanitation Standards
- Hot and Cold Foods
- Operation and Control
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Timeline
06.2023
05.2023
03.2023
10.2022
Mandated Reporter
08.2022
Aide
American Red cross
07.2022
Harrisburg High School
05.2022
Teachers aide
07.2018
Cook
Wabash Area Development inc
10.2015 - 09.2015
Carrier mills school, Carrier mills
01.2015
Teacher Aide, Janitor Kitchen
SIC, Harrsburg
05.2004 - 07.2004
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