Floating Teacher

About This Role

Child Care Co-Teacher to help development, teach, pray and care for children. Be of Christian Faith.

What You'll Do

• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Sanitize and Clean toys and play equipment.
• Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
• Observe and monitor children's play activities.
• Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
• Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
• Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
• Maintain a safe play environment.
• Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
• Absorb children's needs and assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
• Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Regulate children's rest periods.
• Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
• Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games.
• Supervise, teach, help, pray, sing and interact children.
• Help children with emotions.
• Create learning lessons.
• Prepare the material for the lesson plans.
• Diapers changing and Potty training.
• Maintain daily routine.
• Proper food administration.
• Talk, read, and sing to and the children about Jesus.
• Give hugs, smiles, and cuddles.
• Demonstrate kindness, patience, and fun.
• Must be reliable and flexible.
• Perform duties and additional task requested by supervisor.
• Communicate with parents about child's day.
• Praise Jesus with children.
• Maintain cleanliness or room and center.
• Clean Clean and Help Clean Room and Center.

Requirements

• Must pass all screening requirements per DSS, and background check.
• All staff must have completed the equivalent of a high school diploma, obtain 15 hours of continuing education every year.
• At least 6 months of experience working in a child care setting.
• Complete DSS required training in 90 days.

Nice to Haves

• Infant / child CPR and First Aid certification is a plus.