Jenks Public Schools Job Description
Position:Childhood Instructor
Reports to: Site Coordinator Jenks Trojan Adventure Club
Supervises: None
Qualifications:
- High School diploma or GED required.
- Must possess one of the following requirements:
- Hold Child Development Associate (CDA)
- Hold Certificate of Mastery
- Completed thirty 30 college hours which includes fifteen 15 hours of child development coursework.
- Hold a Bachelors degree which includes six 6 hours of child development coursework.
- Experience in daycare/schoolage care.
- Must meet all state licensing requirements.
- Satisfy all district requirements with regard to physical health and citizenship.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Position Goal: Assist in providing innovative teaching and care in a learning environment that offers and encourages choice and developmentally appropriate selfdirection.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Assist with everyday operations of the program including setting up before students come and cleaning up after students leave.
- Work with students in a manner consistent with each childs growth and development. Be aware of each childs needs.
- Assist in preparing lesson plans for children in accordance with developmentally appropriate practices.
- Implement lesson plans in a developmentally appropriate environment. Structure work and play center to meet the needs of the children and licensing requirements.
- Attend all required meeting and meet all staff development requirements.
- Assist in evaluation of the program.
- Adhere to student behavior and discipline as per the Jenks Elementary Intermediate and Middle School Handbook. Guide and administer discipline in a positive respectful manner which promotes selfcontrol selfdirection and self esteem for each individual child.
- Attend workshops and conferences in accordance with licensing standards and requirements per licensed year.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
Employment Terms: Nine 9 month classified hourly contract
FLSA Qualification: NonExempt
Evaluation: Jenks Public Schools Classified Evaluation
Physical Demands:
This is an overview intended for compliance with the ADA it is not an exhaustive list of the duties to be performed. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of a specific position.
Regular Requirements: Stand for extended periods; sit for extended periods; twist at the neck and trunk; bend at the waist; stoop kneel crouch; lift/move up to 20 pounds; handle objects and tools with hands; repetitive use of fingers and hands.
Occasional Requirements: Reach with hands and arms overhead above shoulder and horizontally; lift/move up to 40 pounds.
Visual Requirements: Close color peripheral depth perception ability to adjust focus.
Hearing/Speaking Requirements: Adequate to exchange information.