Assistant Teacher-Community Kids Janesville

Job Summary

Start Date: ASAP
Employment Term and Type: Regular, Full Time
Hours per Week: Varies
Work Hours (i.e. shift): Days

Job Description

Supports Site Supervision by assisting Lead Teachers in creating and maintaining a positive, engaging classroom environment that fosters both educational and social development. Helps ensure each child reaches their full potential while adhering to all Community Action, Inc. policies and state licensing requirements. Contributes to the implementation of program objectives by promoting a supportive and inclusive atmosphere that reflects the agency’s mission, values, and commitment to cultural competence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Core Values
• Initiative: Self-starter requires minimal supervision, requests additional assignments or responsibilities; suggests and implements improved work methods.
• Relationships: Projects a positive attitude and relates effectively with others to build strong working relationships built on a foundation of honesty, compassion, and respect. Promotes and maintains appropriate professional boundaries.
• Problem Solving: Identifies problems, secures relevant information, and implements solutions.
• Planning and Organizing: Establishes and manages work priorities; efficiently allocates time and utilizes available resources appropriately; effectively handles multiple assignments.
• Attention to Safety: Assists in the creation of a safety culture by working in a safe manner; reports unsafe situations and accidents; follows safety procedures; requests and uses safety equipment and safety techniques; and participates in safety training.
• Attendance/Punctuality: Team member is on time and prepared for meeting with participants and stakeholders internal and external to the organization.
• Program Operations
• Curriculum:
• Carry out activities according to the lesson plans provided by Lead Teachers and as developmentally appropriate when sole provider.
• Aid in establishing and maintaining goals and assessments for all children enrolled according to the Education Policy.
• Aid in establishing and maintaining a daily schedule that follows the Education Policy.
• Provide direct care and assistance to children with their basic needs including eating, dressing, and hand washing.
• Interact with children frequently while showing interest and modeling respect and affection regardless of race, gender, background, ability, culture, etc. of children or family members.
• Implement the positive guidance policy within the classroom.
• Encourage independence in children while teaching and modeling positive approaches to behaving constructively.
• Aid children in dealing with emotions, positive and negative, while expecting them to behave in developmentally appropriate ways.
• Participate in all required meetings and trainings.
• Classroom Environment:
• Aid in planning and setting up an organized environment to meet the Education Policy and Environmental Rating Scale requirements.
• Maintain a pleasant and welcoming learning environment for children, families, and co-workers.
• Aid in providing a healthy and safe environment that is conducive to positive learning, playing, and growing.
• Establish and maintain positive working relationships with children, families, co-workers, and supervisors.
• Aid in establishing and maintaining effective communication with families, children, co-workers, and supervisors according to policies and the Environmental Rating Scales.
• Guide and mentor new team members, substitutes, volunteers, and students.
• Maintain a healthy and safe environment according to all safety and emergency standards, policies, and procedures.
• Understand and follow all Community Action, Community Kids, YoungStar, and State Licensing rules, policies, and procedures.
• Complete all required forms according to policies such as, but not limited to, USDA, attendance, and accident reports.
• Maintain an organized, clean, and sanitized environment.
• Promote healthy snack times as pleasant, social learning experiences.
• Aid in overall building cleanliness, organization, and stocking of materials.
• Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Assist with transportation of children as needed.
• Access to reliable, licensed, insured driver and transportation.
• Assist or supervise in other classrooms/sites as required.
• Keep up to date with developments in the subject area, teaching resources and methods and make relevant changes to instructional plans and activities.
• Aid in Kitchen and/or Office as needed.
• Supervisory Responsibilities
• Responsible for the supervision of the children under his/her care in the classroom.
• Responsible for the supervision of volunteers or student teachers within their designated classroom.
• Ensure all policies and procedures are being followed and stepping in when appropriate.
• Provide suggestions and feedback to new team members, volunteers, and student teachers within their designated classroom.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience:
• Must be 18 years of age with a High School Diploma/GED.
• At minimum, meets teacher qualifications as approved by the Wisconsin Registry.
• Minimum one year experience in childcare strongly preferred.
• Must annually complete the required 15 hours of approved continuing education.
• Must have good communication skills, including the ability to effectively present information in one-to-one and small group situations to children, families, and staff.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish is highly desirable.
• Mathematical Skills:
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide with whole numbers, fractions, and percentages.
• Reasoning Ability:
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
• Teaching staff authorized to drive the childcare van and/or bus must meet the driving standards in the Travel/Vehicle Usage Policy and maintain their passenger CDL.
• Within 3 months after beginning work with children, shall obtain and maintain a current certification for infant and child cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use from the agency approved by DCF.
• Certificate of DCF approved training in shaken baby syndrome and SIDS.
• Mandated Reporter training completed within the last two years or DCF approved equivalent.
• Must be reliable and dependable.
• Ability to communicate appropriately and work with families, children, co-workers, managers, and directors.
• Demonstrate competency and knowledge of developmentally appropriate practices and environmental rating scales such as ECERS, ITERS and/or SACERS.
• Demonstrate commitment to cultural diversity.
• Physical Demands:
• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, sit, stoop, kneel crouch or crawl.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance and taste or smell.
• Frequently lift a minimum of 20 pounds, ranging up to 50 pounds, depending on age of children.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to be mobile on a variety of surfaces such as tile, carpet, wood chips, pea gravel, cement, etc.

Salary and Benefits

Varies