2 Year Old Teacher

About This Role

Red Caboose Child Care in Madison, WI is hiring a 2 Year Old Teacher to support daily operations at an early childhood education center. This position offers $11 – $20/Hr and requires relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains a developmentally appropriate classroom environment that reflects the child’s learning and growth, while meeting the standards of the Red Caboose, Licensing, and Accreditation.
• Plans, evaluates, and improves the physical environment in the classroom to create opportunities to meet the changing needs of the developing child on an ongoing basis.
• Demonstrates cultural competency, inclusiveness, and respect for the child and family’s background by incorporating their cultural, linguistic, and familial values and beliefs in the childcare program and lesson plans.
• Assists families in the transition and development of their child to prepare them for the next classroom.
• Completes and reports any symptoms of child abuse to supervisor and/or child abuse hotline – Mandated Reporter.
• Covers supervision of children on a daily and weekly basis.
• Covers supervision of Assistant Teacher on a daily and weekly basis.
• Reports all staffing and classroom concerns to Program Director and/or Executive Director in a timely manner.
• Fulfills other duties as established within Red Caboose, Licensing and Accreditation Standards, in accordance with our Team Philosophy.
• Staff must believe and act in accordance with Red Caboose’s Mission Statement.

Written Documentation

• Maintains accurate, complete, and timely client and agency records – For example, completing daily meal, attendance, health, and incident reports in a timely manner and filling in appropriate files.
• Maintains up-to-date emergency forms, curriculum plans, individual child development profiles, and other records as needed.

Collaboration

• Participates in regularly scheduled team meetings.
• Engages in open conversation regularly with parents and other staff regarding the child’s status and progress.
• Fosters and maintains positive, ongoing, and open communication with parents/Caregivers.
• Provides a classroom experience that encourages parent participation.
• Ensures regular newsletters are sent to parents as part of the communication process in the classroom.

Curriculum

• Assesses individual and group needs, attending to special needs, specific interests, strengths, and concerns.
• Develops a learn-by-play curriculum that allows children to use their imagination and grow their skills from play and interaction.
• Develops Lesson Plans weekly that are developmentally appropriate, intellectually challenging, and help each individual child grow.
• Prepares classroom materials to coincide with weekly and daily goals and lesson plans.

Nice to Have

• Associate’s Degree in early childhood education or related field of study with a minimum of 30 Credits in ECE.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional child care experience.

Common Questions

• What is the education required for this position?
• This position requires a high school diploma or equivalent.
• What does this position pay?
• This 2 Year Old Teacher role pays $11 to $20/Hr.
• Is this full-time or part-time?
• This job is Full Time.