Full Time Preschool Teacher

Responsibilities

• Create a program that meets the emotional, physical, intellectual, and social needs of both the individual and the group.
• Implement a program that respects the background, cultures, and needs of all children, and staff in order to promote diversity.
• Engage with the children and encourage their involvement in all activities.
• Cultivate a warm and safe environment that is orderly, clean, and appealing and permits the child to grow and explore.
• Plan and implement weekly lesson plans that reflect the Center’s developmental philosophy and mission, incorporating DRDP measures as milestones.
• Cope with Directors, co-teachers, and all other staff in a positive manner.
• Create and maintain good communications with parents daily and as needed, can also be by phone or letter.
• Observe, record, and report significant individual and group behavior.
• Keep staff, parent, and child’s information confidential, including evaluations, assessments, documents letters, portfolios etc.
• Exhibit and utilize appropriate and positive discipline consistently.
• Implement program goals and developments and update frequently.
• Continue your education by taking a minimum of 3 college units per year.
• Participate in a minimum of 21 hours of professional growth training hours per year.
• Create curriculum and environment that will help prepare children for later academic success (Kindergarten and beyond).
• Track of supplies in the room and inform office staff when supplies run low.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Achieved an Associate’s degree or higher in Early Childhood Education, Child Development.
• Must have completed Core Early Childhood Courses: Child Development, Child, Family, and Community, Child Programming, ECE Curriculum.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms.
• Required to stand and walk.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Requirements

• Job Requirements: Associate’s degree or higher in Early Childhood Education, Child Development.
• Must have Core Early Childhood Courses: Child Development, Child, Family, and Community, Child Programming, ECE Curriculum.