Child Care Teacher

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Creates a classroom environment that fulfills the social, emotional, physical, spiritual, and intellectual needs of individual children, and the group as a whole.
• Instills a love for learning in infants and toddlers; assists them in exploring and learning at their own pace.
• Takes responsibility for self-and team-functioning, contributes to a positive, upbeat work environment.
• Creates a clean, orderly, and safe physical environment that permits children to explore and learn.
• Interacts appropriately with children on a group and individual level and encourages them to participate in activities.
• Responds to the needs of children effectively, and with sensitivity.
• Ensures that children are appropriately and adequately supervised in all assigned areas.
• Establishes good relationships with children’s parents, ensures that parents maintain positive involvement with the CDC.
• Interacts positively with residents, staff, and others.
• Complies with all child observation record keeping requirements. Observes, reports, and documents significant behaviors or developmental concerns to the CDC director in a timely manner.
• Utilizes appropriate, consistent, and positive discipline.
• Executes developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Maintains an appropriate classroom inventory.
• Safeguards children by ensuring they are released to only authorized adults.
• Affirms the CDC’s commitment to the intergenerational program.
• Affirms the CDC’s compliance with State licensing regulations.
• Affirms the CDC’s compliance with intergenerational program goals.
• Affirms the CDC’s compliance with State licensing regulations.
• Affirms the CDC’s compliance with intergenerational program goals.
• Affirms the CDC’s compliance with State licensing regulations.
• Affirms the CDC’s compliance with intergenerational program goals.

Qualifications

• Must be of at least 18 years old, in accordance with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).
• High School Diploma or GED is required.
• Demonstrates good communications skills, including but not limited to effective reading, writing, speaking, and analytical skills, with fluent understanding of English.
• Must have experience teaching early childhood students in a licensed preschool classroom.
• Must have completed a minimum of 12 college hours of early childhood coursework; an Associates’ Degree in Early Childhood Education, CDA, or Bachelors of Arts in Early Childhood Education is preferred.
• Must display a full understanding and effective application of developmentally appropriate classroom management skills for an Early Childhood setting.
• Current CPR and First Aid certification is required within 30 days of hire date.
• Must have an understanding and effective application of State licensing regulations for a childcare setting.
• Must have certification of attendance in classes for Child Abuse and Neglect, Signs and Symptoms of Illness within 30 days of hire date.
• Must have ABC sleep certificate within 30 days of hire date.
• Demonstrates leadership skills and the ability to exercise sound, independent judgement where procedures cannot be standardized.
• Previous experience in a childcare setting with three or more children under two is preferred.
• Possesses an empathetic approach to the elderly.
• Able to work in a team setting with residents, relatives, staff, and others.