Madison Bleu A.

Meet Madison Bleu

• Comfortable with pets
• Has a car

My name is Madison Bleu Arbuthnot. I am currently studying Human Development and Family Studies with a concentration in Child and Adolescent Development at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and I look forward to graduating this coming May. My past experiences have involved working with diverse populations of people, including children and families of different ethnicities, bilingual families, and homeless families with children. These experiences have allowed me to honor and encourage differences in abilities, cultures, and age. My roles as a student teacher at the Child Development Lab at the University of Illinois, Triple R Child Care in Mokena, Illinois, intern at Crisis Nursery in Urbana, Illinois, and volunteer at Carehaven Shelter for Abused Women with Children in Cape Town, South Africa have provided me with communication, flexibility, and teamwork skills. I also have experience in planning and implementing activities, such as activities aimed towards a specific area of Read more development, like fine motor or cognitive development. Throughout my experience, I have always looked for ways to improve activities for the children. For example, if one child seems overwhelmed by the number of aspects an activity has to offer, I will remove some of the choices to lessen that child’s stress. On the other hand, if a child seems bored with an activity because she has already mastered it, I find a way to make it more challenging, perhaps by adding a new component the child has never seen before.

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