Teacher I Head Start

Position Title: Teacher Head Start

Employee Type: FullTime Regular

Supervisor Title: Center Director or Manager Education & Inclusion

Division: U.S. Programs & Advocacy

Summary

The Head Start Teacher develops and implements individual and group educational plans for preschool children designed to promote socialemotional physical and cognitive growth in a manner appropriate to their stage of development. You will be responsible for the general daytoday operations of a Head Start classroom and must verify legal compliance with federal state and local regulations. You will create and nurture strong partnerships with families and ensures that the program quality remains at the highest standards.

The Head Start Teacher reports directly to the Center Director or Manager of Education & Inclusion. This position may also supervise Teacher Assistants and seek support in the classroom from Program Aides and Volunteers.

As a front line representative of Save the Children the Head Start Teacher is required to ensure the safety and security of children and families that he/she comes in contact with adhering to the agencys values of Accountability Ambition Collaborations Creativity and Integrity.

As a Save the Children employee who will come into contact with children on a routine basis you are expected to prevent child abuse in every situation by striving through mental awareness good practice and training to minimize risk to children. You must take positive steps to protect children who may be a subject of concern and report respond to any instance of child abuse and promote training and awareness around all childsafeguarding obligations.

What Youll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Develop and implement individualized and group lesson plans as well as educational activities that promote all developmental areas to improve the readiness of children for school.

• Ensure there is a safe healthy and developmentally appropriate learning environment.
• Build effective relationships within the organization the children and their families.
• Maintain accurate records both on paper and in designated online systems.
• Maintain confidentiality regarding children and families.
• Plan conduct and document observations assessments and screenings. Maintain a comprehensive and ongoing portfolio assessment for each child including weekly observations examples of the childs work and developmental assessments.
• Keep manager informed of important issues
• Work with the Assistant Teacher Program Aides and Volunteers to develop their skills and abilities in planning and carrying out classroom activities.

• Engage with children during all activities throughout the day. Provide constant supervision of children during all learning activities indoors and outdoors and ensure safe environment.

• Use the playground as an extension of the classroom; ensure the playground is safe.

• Provide a balanced program of childinitiated and teacherdirected activities and opportunities for individual small group and large group learning activities.
• Eat with and assistchildren in eating during mealtime to teachsocial and selfhelp skillsand sound nutritional practices.
• Ensurethat the physical needs of children are met assisting children in health and personal habits such as resting brushing teeth diapering and toilet habits.
• Createways to engage parents in the education of their children including encouraging classroom involvement and home activities.
• Create an inventory ofall classroom equipment and supplies annually.
• Plan and conduct conferences (minimum 2 and home visits (minimum 2 or more often as needed to ensure parent/caregiver is well informed on their childs progress of development and learning routines activities and behavior.
• Work in cooperation with Manager of Education & Inclusion to develop and document progress on professional development plan; actively engage in professional development activities to increase qualifications.
• Work closely with management to ensure program compliments Head Start Program Performance Standards

• This position must have the ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner and protect the childrens safety by implementing active supervision techniques to ensure no child is left alone or unsupervised at any time.
• Ensure the mobilization and documentation of matchinginkind activities goods and services.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of an Associate degree in child development early childhood education or a related degree with early childhood equivalent coursework equivalent to a major relating to early childhood education with experience teaching preschoolage children.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to successfully communicate and collaborate with individuals and teams at all levelswhether internal or externalin the provision of highquality services to children and families
• Demonstrated successful interpersonal communication and organizational skills; great problem solving and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to follow established and communicated directions and take initiative
• Demonstrated knowledge of the purpose of the Head Start/Early Head Start program.
• Proven ability to relate sensitively with children.
• Proven ability to keep all required information strictly confidential.
• Must participate in professional development training including basic first aid and pediatric CPR certification as required by state licensing and HSPPS.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering an environment of diversity inclusion and belonging

Physical Requirements related to essential functions: Ability to perform medium to heavy physical work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally up to 20 pounds frequently and up to 510 pounds constantly performing such activities as sitting crawling stooping kneeling crouching reaching standing walking pushing pulling lifting and grasping. This also includes some duties that require repetitive action and motion skills keyboarding and computer use.

Clear preemployment background check requirements including local state and national criminal records check sex offender registries employment and education verifications (including child abuse registry check if required by state regulations) and pass all state and local health requirements required post job offer and prior to employment.

This position may require the incumbent to operate a motor vehicle to fulfill certain essential functions of the job. The incumbent should maintain a valid drivers license and remain in compliance with any Save the Children policies pertaining to the safe operation of motor vehicles.

Current and former Head Start/Early Head Start parents will receive preference for employment vacancies for which they are qualified.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual preferred (English/Spanish or English and other languages used by children and families).

Why you should join the Save the Children Team

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health dental vision and life insurances shortterm and longterm disability coverage an Employee Assistance Program 403(b) generous vacation personal sick leave family leave parental/adoption leave commuter benefits dress for your day and much more.

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Our work for children and their families requires that we commitat every opportunityto work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism inequality and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an antiracist organization Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any formin our employment practices amongst our staff in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity withallpeople to fight for equal rights justice inclusion and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression ancestry sexual orientation national origin age handicap disability marital status or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition it is Save the Childrens policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions whether deliberate or inadvertent that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees ensuring all are given training support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty both agency and individual is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.