Nicola Bzdok
Tipperary Town ,County Tipperary
Summary
Dedicated early years teaching professional shaping children's growth through positive, personalised care. Committed to maximising student potential in learning and development. Compassionate and trustworthy for reliable child and family support. Reliable individual with outstanding interpersonal and relationship-building abilities seeks preschool teaching opportunity. Confident and child-focused to build positive, welcoming nursery environments. Learns quickly and takes direction well for responsive team support.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Kindergarten teacher
Froebel
Cologne, Germany
01.2023 - 07.2024
- Maintained health and safety of children during all activities.
- Used arts and crafts activities to encourage self-expression.
- Encouraged learning through play to aid social, emotional and educational growth within kindergarten settings.
- Boosted vocabulary development through singing, storytelling and role-play activities.
- Monitored playground activity to maintain pupil safety and security.
- Set up and helped children with activity equipment and resources.
Babysitter
Katarzyna Hebel
Tipperary Town , Ireland
05.2022 - 08.2022
- Developed positive, trusting relationships with groups of young children.
- Read stories and lead activities to help children build foundational learning skills.
- Role-modelled desired behaviours, habits and actions.
- Helped children with personal hygiene needs and taught young children to independently complete care tasks.
- Created and maintained welcoming, safe and tidy space to promote children's development.
Classroom assistant
Saint Josephs Primary school
Tipperary Town , Ireland
03.2019 - 03.2019
- Provided friendly, enthusiastic support to pupils in individual and group support settings.
- Maintained child safety, security and good behaviour during classroom and outdoor activities.
- Supervised pupils during lunchtimes and educational visits.
- Observed pupils closely in classroom environment to foster engagement.
- Assisted teacher with using support equipment and computers during lessons.
- Gave students papers related to assignments and collected finished work.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics with TESOL and Music & Dance
University of limerick
Limerick city 09/2021 -
St. Anne’s Secondary School
Tipperary Town 08/2015 - 07/2021
Skills
- Child development
- Cooperative learning
- Food Hygiene
- Activity planning
- Communication
- Lesson planning
- Classroom management
- Student engagement
- Fast learner
- ESOL- English for Speakers of Other Languages
- Effective time management
- Creative lesson planning
- Interactive teaching/learning
- Positive and encouraging
- Child protection and safeguarding
Affiliations
- Singing
- Travelling
- Horse riding
- Music
- Painting
- Meet new people
Accomplishments
Creativity award
handling course certificate
law course certificate
Credit Union Art Competition First place x 2
Languages
English
Fluent
Polish
Native
German
Upper intermediate
Japanese
Beginner
Irish
Elementary
Timeline
Kindergarten teacher
Froebel
01.2023 - 07.2024
Babysitter
Katarzyna Hebel
05.2022 - 08.2022
Classroom assistant
Saint Josephs Primary school
03.2019 - 03.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics with TESOL and Music & Dance
University of limerick
09/2021 -
St. Anne’s Secondary School
08/2015 - 07/2021
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