Teacher

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support in facilitating and monitoring of the continual evaluation of each child’s progress.
• Support in facilitating direction, resources, and support to the program staff in planning, implementing, and evaluating program curriculum.
• Support in providing leadership and guidance to children, families, and staff.
• Support with the implementation of SJB Curriculum.
• Nurture and facilitate the learning experience by meeting each child at their point of need through a variety of teaching methods, which include but are not limited to individualized care and small group experiences.
• Interact daily with each child and support his or her learning process.
• Manage and implement a positive approach of combining consistency, empathy, and culturally diverse practices.
• Supports with the orientation process of families.
• Support in the implementation of developmentally appropriate curriculum activities for children.
• Provide direct support, engagement, and extension of a child’s play and learning experiences by offering assistance and providing resources.
• Support in designing interest areas to provide choices, opportunities for safe risks, and challenge children to interact, learn, create, and thrive while corresponding with the developmental and individual needs of each child, thus fostering the desire to learn.
• Support Classroom and Behavior Management.
• Offer clear expressions of expectations with natural and logical consequences.
• Conduct Parent Conferences and Home Visits (4 Parent Conferences- 2 Home Visits annually).
• Prepare DRDP assessments for each child (3 annually).
• Handle all paperwork and follow associated with Mental Health assessments and Referrals.
• Be familiar with the needs of each family and follow the Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP).
• Maintain a Family Communication Log for each child.
• Conduct Daily Health checks upon the children’s arrival and departure.
• Ensure children are signed in and out upon arrival and departure.

Administrative

• Plan, supervise, and implement the program in accordance with the policies and philosophy of SJB Child Development Centers.
• Participate in monthly staff meetings.
• Participate in bi-weekly program meetings.
• Support with daily attendance of children.
• Support in maintaining accurate updates of records at site including but not limited to: enrollment, attendance, CACFP, communication logs, curriculum, child observations, and parent participation.
• Support with all proper documentation by deadlines, to include, but not limited to DRDPR’s, ITERS, ECERS, SACERS, Environmental Rating Scales, Lesson Plans, etc.

Health and Safety

• Support in the monitoring of the provision of a safe, secure, clean, and challenging environment for children, families and staff.
• Mandated to report suspected child abuse.
• Support in the implementation of monthly fire drills, earthquake drills, and annual disaster drills.
• Support in reporting safety hazards and injuries the Teacher immediately.
• Follow health and safety standards for children, families, and staff.