Child Care Lead Teacher

Duties And Responsibilities

• Cooking, wood-working, and other activities to maintain equipment and materials.
• Coordinate assessment of infants every three months and pre-school every four months.
• Handle all staff, children, and center information with confidentiality and discretion.
• Monitor health and safety of children in center.
• Plan with staff active listening, prepare, implement, supervise and evaluate daily program activities in area served.
• Take a leadership role in facilitating planning and implementation of developmentally appropriate curriculum with staff.
• Supervise and maintain daily record keeping and chart changes in schedules, medication administration, feeding times and amounts, diaper changes, infant health and sleeping habits, milestones reached and other information necessary to keep staff and/or parents informed.
• Organize and coordinate consistent grouping, assigns groups, group teachers and areas, daily groups, assign primary caregivers and maintain mandated ratio for area served.
• Establish and support positive Center-family relationships.
• Coordinate curriculum for area served ensuring that the cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development needs of children are met.
• Organize classroom, program and equipment to create a safe, warm, nurturing environment that reflects developmentally appropriate practices and promotes a multi-cultural, non-sexist, non-violent philosophy and curriculum.
• Direct volunteers, students and observers in the Center, and other activities as needed, or directed by Director/Co-Director.
• Conduct daily maintenance including but not limited to laundry, floor care, record keeping, and bed maintenance, washing toys and rotating toys.
• Exhibit confidence and responsibility as a member of the team – maintain open communication, contribute to daily routine tasks, while maintaining awareness of overall needs in the area served and while supporting assistant staff.
• Contributes to newsletters and manuals.
• Work with children in warm, enthusiastic, interested positive manner. Encourage and model respect, diversity, and open communication.
• Assist children with meals, snacks, and other nutritional needs.
• Exhibit a personal commitment to continued studies and/or training in Early Childhood Education.
• Take initiative, work independently and maintain self and team motivation.
• Utilize outside support staff, ex. AEA professionals, Faculty Advisor, etc. when needed.
• Models professional behavior expectations.

Qualifications

• Must possess valid driver’s license.
• Current certification in First Aid/ CPR . Completion of mandatory reporting training.
• Completion of OSHA -Universal Precautions Training.
• Ability to create a developmentally appropriate environment that provides the best, high quality care and education for area served.
• Mature attitude that allows for effective communication, problem solving, and team building.
• Completion of Mandatory Reporter training, current certification in First Aid/ CPR , completion of OSHA Universal Precautions training (available through NICC Division of Continuing Education).
• Completion of physical exam—with communicable disease screenings and tests as defined in Iowa Code Section 109.9d.
• Successful clearance with DHS and Criminal Records/Child Abuse Registry record check.
• Ability to consistently maintain physical vitality and stamina.