Nursery Practitioner (Bank Staff) - The Old Station, Innsworth - Innsworth
(2025-09)
- Assist nursery practitioners when they change nappies, clothes, prepare meals and activities.
- Ensure children's safety while they play in the garden and rooms (e.g., swinging, cutting paper, and playing with messy activities), and report accidents to nursery practitioners.
- Monitor children during mealtimes, and wipe their faces, and clean tables and sweep floors after meals.
- Read storybooks, sing nursery rhymes, and communicate and cuddle children while children need help and emotional support.
Permanent Nursery Practitioner (Baby room) - Magic Roundabout Nursery - Bristol
(2024-11 - 2025-09)
- Set up activities and do circle time (stories and nursery rhymes) to support development in the five areas of a baby's growth in rooms and garden and engage with babies using Makaton and spoken language.
- Meet babies' basic needs by preparing meals according to their food preferences and allergies, changing nappies and soiled or wet clothes, assigning age-appropriate cots and beds, comforting them to help them sleep safely, and tidying up and cleaning toys after playtime.
- Complete documentation using Famly or paper forms, including baby routines, headcount, accident and incident reports, activity observations and assessments, and transition forms, opening and closing room check forms, and garden safety check forms.
- Engage in friendly small talk with parents during drop-off, asking about their baby's situation at home, and provide feedback about their baby's day during pick-up, especially for my key children.
- Cooperate with colleagues in the room by helping to set up a safe and clean environment when opening, tidying up the entire room when closing, sharing important updates about babies, such as accident, teething or changes in food preferences, in a timely manner, offering support when colleagues ask for help, and following task assignments from the room leader.
Lab Assistant - University of Birmingham, English Language and Linguistics
(2024-01 - 2024-03)
- Prepare information forms and consent forms for students and guide them in completing the forms.
- Set up the SR EyeLink 1000, perform calibration and validation to ensure the accuracy of eye fixations, and assist students in conducting eye-tracking reading studies.
- Test speakers and instruct students to finish videos on Climate Change and their follow-up questions.
- Prepare a button box and assist students in listening to and reading English sentences, or both.
Research Assistant - The Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham
(2023-11 - 2023-12)
- Design and modify cognitive tasks in Psychopy and OpenSesame, utilising Python to implement complex functions (e.g., in the OSpan task, processing blocks to repeat if cumulative score is below 65%).
- In the collocation task, set timing and automate scoring in Qualtrics.
- Design sign-up links and recruitment posters, and recruit participants through sending emails to administrators, engaging potential participants on campus, and contacting local language schools.
- Provide and conduct instructions for data collection using imitation tasks (e.g., imitating the process of writing Chinese characters, pronouncing Chinese sentences, and solving puzzle boxes), linguistic tasks (e.g., LLAMA, GJT, and EIT), and cognitive tasks (e.g., OSpan, SRT, and Flanker).
Student Helper on a Conference - The Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham
(2023-08 - 2023-09)
- Print name badges and conference booklets, and pre-order stationery, and bottles of water for attendees and speakers.
- Assist attendees with registration and distribute name badges to them on reception.
- Address attendees' questions at the reception desk, such as providing directions to meeting rooms, luggage storage, and information about coffee and lunch catering.
- Resolve IT issues for speakers, including desktop login problems, connecting PowerPoint presentations to screens, and linking personal laptops to university desktops.
- Coordinate the gathering of attendees at a designated location, assist with boarding coaches, and ensure they have dinner at a city center hotel.
Education Consultant - UKPathway - Birmingham
(2021-06 - 2022-02)
- Guide international students in critical and systematic writing, help them avoid academic dishonesty, and instruct them in using writing tools such as Endnote, Thesaurus, Grammarly, and Academic Phrasebank.
- Navigate and help the students apply the Appeal and University's Extenuating Circumstances (EC or MC).
- Answer instantly the students' questions about academic dishonesty and extenuating.
- Utilise Google Forms to gather data on academic issues facing international students studying social sciences in the UK, USA, and Australia.
- Assist international students in planning their dissertation projects.
Nursery/Classroom Assistant - Boxiang Kindergarten - Guangdong, China
(2018-10 - 2019-06)
- Liaise with native English teachers and provide necessary assistance in classroom.
- Design pedagogical activities such as role-play, drawing, and team competition, with Kahoot, Youku (Video player), Qupeiyin (Dubbing software) to help students practice English.
- Discuss children's progress with parents and carers to build open and honest relationships.
- Assist classroom managers with the decorations of classroom and guarantee children' safety during activities such as having lunch, going to toilet, and football classes.
