Toddler Assistant Teacher

About This Role

The Academy is a warm and supportive work environment. We welcome teachers new to the field and can provide mentorship opportunities!

Duties and Responsibilities

• Offer a program that meets the emotional, physical, intellectual, and social needs of both the individual and the group.
• Interact with the children frequently, affectionately, and respectfully. Speak in a calm, friendly, soft, and courteous manner with proximity to the child.
• Create a warm and safe environment that is orderly, clean, and appealing and permits the child to grow and explore.
• Engage and communicate constructively with individual children during activities and routines.
• Plan with the Associate Teacher, and other staff, weekly lesson plans which follow the Creative Curriculum objectives for development and learning.
• Practice positive discipline techniques in guiding children’s behavior according to First Church Academy for Young Children’s Positive Guidance Plan, outlined in our Staff Manual.
• Observe, record and report significant individual and group behavior and use data to inform lesson planning.
• Maintain all required classroom child records.
• Follow the school wide assessment plan, which in alignment with Creative Curriculum includes maintaining child portfolios and holding family conferences.
• Acknowledge families and all classroom visitors.
• Respond to family comments and concerns with sensitivity, interest, respect and maintain confidentiality.
• Plan and facilitate family conferences at least two times per year.
• Share resources with families though discussions, articles, and newsletters.
• Share photographs through FCAYC parent engagement app.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director.

Requirements

• Preference given to an applicant with: An Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education, related field, or 12 ECE credits. At least 2 years of experience working with preschool or early elementary children in an organized program (comparable education and/or experience may be considered).
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: Move, push, and pull, if needed, while moving and holding children; Safely lift up to 40 lbs.; Physically interact with young children through running, chasing, bending, stooping, climbing, sitting, and standing; Stand for extended periods of time; Assume postures in low level positions that best allow physical and visual contact with children; Engage in repetitive bending at the waist, as well as kneeling, stooping, crouching to assist children; Have excellent speaking and hearing ability to exchange information, hear in noisy environment, and locate the sources of sounds for health and safety including crying by children; Easily and safely accompany children in the building and outdoors for distances of several hundred yards per day at a reasonable pace; Must be able to assume postures in low-level positions that best allow physical and visual contact with children; Must be able to bend to perform various tasks numerous times throughout the day; Must be able to easily accompany children in the building and outdoors for distances of several hundred yards per day at a reasonable pace.
• Nice To Haves: LOVE children, High energy, Strong communication skills, Team player

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Leave
• Sick Leave
• Retirement Plan
• Tuition Assistance
• Professional Development

Pay

Commensurate with experience

Schedule

N/A