Isabela Lemos de Melo
Early Childhood Educator
About
Highly skilled in developing and implementing individual and focused development programs for children aged 18 months to 6 years. Knowledge of motor, language, cognitive and psychosocial development. Planning play-based and emergent curriculum.
Intuition and knowledge to understand individual needs of young children. Strong communication skills to understand children's needs and create a supportive environment. Effective interpersonal skills to listen to children's verbal and non-verbal cues and interpret them appropriately.
Experience
Work instructor therapist - Surrey Place
(2025-02 - 2025-08)
- Collected and graph
- Developed materials for teaching emotional strategies with children aged 3 to 4 years old children with diagnosed ASD
- Implemented ABA strategies
- Play and implementing games with the children
- Teach communication and self-regulation strategies
Early Childhood Education Field Placement - Kids and Company
(2024-09 - 2024-12)
- Applied and implemented activities in accordance with individual child's physical, emotional and social needs
- Applied behavioral guidance
- Write the activities carried out during the day in the children's diary
- Discuss children's development with parents
Early Childhood Education Field Placement - Flemingdon Toronto Community Services
(2024-05 - 2024-08)
- Plan and implement activities in accordance with individual child's physical, emotional and social needs
- Ensure all children are supervised and utilized positive behaviors guidance
- Helped feeding the children and with personal care
- Daily observations of the children. Helped with organization and tasks and filled all the documentations of the children's daily routine
Early Childhood Educator Field Placement - Le Club after school program
(2024-01 - 2024-04)
- Planned and implemented indoor and outdoor activities
- Developed activities that introduce early mathematical and literary concepts
- Applied behavioral guidance
- Helped children to build problem solving and self-regulation skills
- Scanned the indoor and outdoor environment to make sure all the children are in safety
- Helped to fill in daily paperwork
Early Childhood Educator Field Placement - Edu kids Daycare
(2023-10 - 2023-12)
- Help the teachers in the elaboration of the children`s curriculum and activities
- Do activities and games
- Help with the bathroom routine and sleep time
- Feed the children
- Write the activities carried out during the day in the children's diary
Early children educator assistant - Sao Paulo Association of Parents and Families Daycare
(2023-04 - 2023-08)
- Help the teachers in the elaboration of the children`s curriculum and activities
- Help with the personal care of the children's
- Planning play-based, inclusive, emergent curriculum
- Fill in paperwork and children's diary
- Discuss children's development with parents
Field placement Instructor therapist - Sinclair Secondary School
(2022-03 - 2022-05)
- Collected and graph
- Developed materials for teaching emotional strategies to young people aged 14 to 18
- Observed teenagers in a classroom setting from ages 14-18 with ASD
- Implemented ABA based behavior strategies
- Attended meetings with parents
- Assisted teachers when needed
Field Placement Instructor therapist - Lake Ridge Community Support Services
(2022-05 - 2022-06)
- Observe one on one and group consultative setting
- Implement ABA based behavior strategies
- Observed children from ages of 3 to 10 with and without complex cases along with ASD diagnosis amongst other Intellectual disabilities as well
- Collect and analyze graphs
Volunteer Instructor therapist - Entry level School Program in Elsie McGall Public School
(2022-06 - 2022-08)
- Teach ABA techniques to 3- to 4-year-old children diagnosed with autism or intellectual disabilities who were preparing to enter Kindergarten
- Prepare sensory and pedagogical activities to stimulate the development of children
- Teach communication strategies
- play and make games with the children
- Made notes in the diary
Assistant of the Department of Patient Support - Brazilian Association of Lymphoma and Leukemia - São Paulo, BR
(2019-01 - 2020-01)
- Care and psychotherapy to cancer patients
- Visits to the hospitals ITACI, Hospital Infantile Darcy Vargas and Santa Paula for guidance and support to patients
- Guidance on leukemia and lymphoma for patients and family members
Education
Diploma - Early Childhood Education - Seneca Polytechnic (2023-09 - 2024-12)
Diploma - Autism and Behavioural Sciences - Durham College (2021-01 - 2022-07)
Bachelor's degree - Psychology - Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU) (2013-01 - 2018-12)
