Early Childhood Floater Teacher

Essential Job Functions

• Supports a team approach to planning and implementing program activities.
• Collaborates with Family Support Workers, Teacher’s, Program Aide, site partners, and site supervisor for the betterment of the classroom and families.
• Guides and facilitates activities of the children and ensures appropriate child guidance and discipline and proper ratios are maintained at all times.
• Attends all mandated trainings. Sets and achieves professional development goals. Shares resources with other staff members as appropriate.
• Maintains accurate teacher and child files.
• Schedules and conducts education home visits with teaching staff to discuss individual development and progress, assists parents in developing educational goals for their child.
• Maintains accurate CACFP documents in conjunction with the teaching staff.
• Builds and ensures positive and ongoing relationships with parents, volunteers, and other staff members.
• Works with site supervisor and family support worker to exchange information pertinent to the identification and services of children with disabilities.
• Conducts and/or oversees screening of all children within prescribed time frames using the developmental, social emotional and other prescribed screenings tools.
• Ensures the curriculum is used to fidelity and that submission of weekly lesson plans including individualization for all children, including: monitoring and facilitating accommodations listed in IEPs and IFSPs.
• Provides a supportive, caring and safe environment for children.
• Uses the playground as an extension of the classroom; assures that the playground is safe.
• Provides active supervision to ensure the safety of children while in the classroom, during transitions, at time of transportation, and while on the playground. Ensures that no child shall be left alone or unsupervised.
• Provides home visiting services to ensure that services to families are maintained in the event that there is a need for home visiting support.
• Maintains accurate usage of agency technology equipment and time are utilized for agency business.
• Ensures compliance with the agency’s code of conduct.
• Affirms agency’s fiscal integrity by adhering to purchase approval requirements and procedures.
• Assists in the development of the agency’s annual program self-assessment.
• Ensures all content area data is accurately reflected in the agency’s Program Information Reports within set time frames.
• Participates in program recruitment efforts to maintain full enrollment.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience in planning and implementing learning experiences that advance the intellectual and physical development of children, including improving the readiness of children for preschool by developing their literacy awareness and their approaches to learning.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining a safe, healthy learning environment for infants and toddlers.
• Experience in supporting the social and emotional development of children.
• Experience in encouraging the involvement of the families of the children in an early childhood program and supporting the development of relationships between children and their families.

Qualifications

• Associate in early childhood education or related field with 21 credit hours in Ealy Childhood Education required.
• Bachelor's in early childhood or related field with 21 credits hours in early childhood education preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Satisfactorily pass all relevant screenings and criminal background checks.

Prior Experience

• Gateways to Opportunity credential and/or ECE PEL.

Physical Demands

• Sit and stand for sustained periods of time.
• Frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle, and operate objects or controls.
• Occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel and crouch.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, and viewing a computer terminal.

Benefits

Metropolitan Family Services offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical Coverage
• Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• $2,000 to individual, and $4,000 to family, HSA accounts, pro-rated to your benefits start date.
• FREE General Medicine and Behavioral Health Teladoc services provided to all team members.
• Ascensus 401K plan services with a 4% employer match, vested at 100% on day one of eligibility.

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About Metropolitan Family Services

Metropolitan Family Services is Illinois' first comprehensive human services agency and reaches more than 122,970 individuals and families in Chicago, Evanston/Skokie, the southwest suburbs, and DuPage County with services promoting education, economic stability, emotional wellness, and empowerment.