Preschool Teacher's Aide

About the role

This is a full-time, hourly position working Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. The position is located in Enterprise, FL.

Responsibilities

• Establishes a warm and friendly, yet objective relationship with the children.
• Helps children to eat, dress, and do other activities, which foster appropriate habits.
• Provides care and protection of children and meets their individual needs.
• Participates in staff meetings and helps to plan goals.
• Participates in State and CCRN required training.
• Ensures that equipment and materials are accessible and in good condition.
• Attends and participates in meetings and workshops related to group child care.
• Distributes, arranges, and maintains teaching materials and equipment.
• Reports any significant problems of progress or any unusual behavior of children to the Director.
• Keeps an incident log to observe and record significant individual and group behavior. Also records any incident, injury or area of concern and documents significant parent interactions.
• Records developmental milestones.
• Communicates with parents through daily progress reports, conversations, conferences, notes and PAC meetings in support of the lead teacher.
• Keeps daily attendance and meal counts. Documents reasons for absences.
• Performs general housekeeping duties in the center; maintaining the room in a neat, clean, aesthetically pleasing manner, conducive to constructive play appropriate for the age group served.
• Is always friendly and helpful to children, staff and parents.
• Maintains responsibility and direct supervision of all children in the group during on-duty hours.
• Affords assistance in planning a flexible weekly program for the children on appropriate lesson plan sheets based on the curriculum outline and the developmental stages of the children.
• Changes diapers according to written procedures, cleans up messes such as vomit, diarrhea, or toilet floods as needed.
• Remains in the Child Care Center during assigned hours, unless specifically assigned duty elsewhere.

Qualifications

• A High School Diploma or higher.
• A Child Development Associate (CDA) certification, preferred.

Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Knowledge of child development and safety standards.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance plans, including health, dental, vision, life insurances, and more.
• Work life balance, including flexible scheduling, generous paid time off plans and ten paid holidays per year.
• Retirement benefits with up to a 5% contribution match.
• Educational tuition reimbursement and certification incentives.
• Incredible training opportunities.
• Discounted tuition rates to our onsite Montessori school.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in this posting.

Schedule

The schedule is not specified in this posting.