Teacher Assistant - Early Learning

About The Centers

The Centers provide health, family, and workforce services at 11 locations throughout Greater Cleveland, creating life-changing solutions for people to lead healthier and more successful lives. We strive to be a service-oriented workplace that pioneers and co-creates solutions while fostering belonging in a community where our team members thrive.

Responsibilities

• Absorbs responsibility for the assigned children in the Teacher's classroom; meets the social, emotional, physical and cognitive developmental needs of children in routine areas of their care and throughout their planned daily schedule of activities.
• Completes individual assessments and screenings for children in their care; formulates plans to support children with special needs.
• Helps individual children recognize and use acceptable behavior; demonstrates empathy for misbehavior and responds professionally; sets reasonable limits for children; uses incidents of misbehavior to teach children positive behavior, social awareness, social interaction skills, verbal skills, etc.
• Absolutely supervises children while in care custody and control.
• Helps maintain exciting well-equipped learning environments to foster exploration.
• Participates in a cooperative team of teachers to cultivate optimal growth and development through High Scope Curriculum activities in both the indoor and outdoor environment.
• Promotes personalized planning with high levels of teacher-child interactions under the direction of a supervisor.
• As a teaching team, helps design, develop, and implement developmentally appropriate activity plans for children based on assessment and screening data.
• Be a team member in engaging parents through caring, meaningful, and professional relationships to enhance child(ren)'s development.
• Maintains cleanliness and sanitation of the assigned classroom area, other areas in the center, toys and equipment regularly throughout the day.
• Responsible for laundry within the assigned classroom – washing, drying, and folding, as needed.
• Maintains playground area by cleaning and sanitizing high touch areas after each classroom outside play.
• Assists Center with child enrollment by communicating with community members and passing out flyers.

Qualifications

• CDA or Associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related field.
• CPR/First Aid, Communicable Disease, Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention within 90 days of hire (training provided by The Centers).
• Some entry-level experience in a classroom setting required; early childhood focus preferred.
• Occasional evening hours may be required.
• No record of child abuse or moral turpitude as determined by background check based on fingerprints.

Skills

• Ability to work effectively with children and families.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of High Scope curriculum and teaching strategies.
• Ability to adapt to changing situations and priorities.

Benefits

• Choice of medical and dental plans.
• Health Savings Account.
• Flexible Spending Account for Health and Dependent Care.
• Vision Support.
• Life Insurance.
• Retail Savings (401k) with a company contribution.
• Mental Health Support.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Calm Subscription.
• Short and Longterm Disability.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Hours are flexible and may vary based on the needs of the program.