Early Childhood Apprentice

Position Summary

The Early Childhood Apprentice will assist in providing continuity of services to Head Start and Early Head Start Centers.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the Lead Teacher and Teacher in providing educational and developmentally appropriate learning activities that will enable the child to succeed, including special needs children.
• Assist the Lead Teacher and Teacher in attending educational conferences and home visits.
• Assist the Lead Teacher and Teacher with record keeping of individual children to include daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• Assist in preparation of meals and maintain a clean and sanitary environment at Head Start Centers.
• Be responsible to assist in a classroom of up to 20 children, providing appropriate activities and modeling family style dining during all meals.
• Assist in maintaining children's safety in a classroom at all times, following all safety and supervision procedures.
• Provide educational assistance to Head Start children in a center-based environment, including creation of individual lesson plans.
• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Attend all agency trainings as required.
• May provide other basic support functions (i.e. record keeping, answer phone, etc.) as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• High School/GED/HISet required.
• Must be enrolled in Early Childhood Education courses in college.

Compensation & Benefits

• On-site position - This is not a remote position.
• Rate of Pay $15.91 per hour, bi-weekly pay.
• Non-Benefits-eligible.