Child Development Teacher 1500 Hiring Incentive Southeast Early Head Start

The Child Development Teacher will be primarily responsible for teaching and providing high quality childcare while parents engage in meaningful activities at the Early Head Start (EHS) center. This staff member will plan and present accurate and engaging lessons to enrolled children.

The position is responsible for ensuring a safe clean and comfortable childcare space that is conducive to quality parent/child interactions and exceptional educational experiences.

TheEarly Childhood Development and Education Centers Southeast Early Head Start program offers specialized child care services for children under the age of three whose families are experiencing a variety of highrisk factors such as community trauma interpersonal violence housing instability recovery from addiction as well as the many challenges faced by families where English is a second language.

The Southeast Early Head Start offers an attachmentbased traumainformed child care program based on teaching methods and mental health intervention approaches that support strong parentchild attachments and enhance stability in the family.

The Southeast Early Head Start Program is a delegate agency of the Maryland Family Network and is licensed by the Maryland State Department of Educations Office of Child Care.

1. Presents and provides educational activities that are culturallysensitive attachmentbased and traumainformed to children in an unrestricted environment using best practices.
2. Collaborates with the Child Development Coordinator and Child Development Teacher Mentor to plan lessons create classroom strategies set educational goals for individuals and groups and make daily care plans using the Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies Gold as a framework.
3. Participates and assists in implementing parentchild attachment interventions (e.g. A Good GoodBye Family Tradition Groups).
4. Develops and facilitates child development goals in accordance with family partnership agreements and Teaching Strategies Gold observation.
5. Develops plans and prepares instructional aids/materials for the classroom.
6. Ensures that all center classroom paperwork (e.g. daily checklists daily log child observation assessment tools and progress notes) is completed in a timely fashion.
7. Conducts weekly observations on assigned children using the Teaching Strategies Gold online tool.
8. Completes child development screenings (ASQ & ASQSE DECAIT).
9. Completes quarterly checkpoints and parent conferences for each child in the Teaching Strategies Gold online tool.
10. Maintains a clean and safe classroom environment.
11. Conducts courteous communications with parents regarding their childs progress needs and concerns.
12. Follows all Office of Child Care licensing requirements and EHS Performance Standards.
13. Complete a minimum of two home visits annually.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

1. Must be able to lift push pull or carry a minimum weight of 25 pounds and carry small children as necessary.
2. Must be able to bend squat and work with childsized spaces.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ninetyhour Early Childhood Education Certificate required.
• Fortyfivehour Infant Toddler Certificate required.
• Child Development Associate credential (CDA) is required within three months of employment.
• Must possess and maintain cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid certification.

EDUCATION:

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Associates degree or higher in Early Childhood Education or Child Development is preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of one year supervised classroom experience working directly with children ages birth to three years old required.
• Daycare experience preferred.