Job Description Summary

Job Description

Responsibilities and Duties include:

• Plans and implements weekly lesson plans with colleagues centered on age appropriate developmental and educational goals.
  • Uses teaching strategies that build on and extend what children already know.
• Helps children acquire the necessary skills for transitioning to preschool such as potty training selfhelp skills and language skills.
  • Facilitates childchild interactions with the goal of teaching and modeling problem solving skills.
  • Demonstrates appropriate and safe teacherchild interaction.
• Teaches and practices the violence prevention curriculum including empathy building impulse control and emotion management.
• Helps children gain selfcontrol selfconfidence and positive selfesteem by using relationship building techniques.
• Builds developmental skills with children across social emotional physical cognitive and language domains.
  • Records observational and developmental data for each child in each domain of development.
• Communicates well with parents daily and in formally arranged conferences.
  • Informs Director of any concerns regarding children or parents.
• Participates in weekly staff professional development meetings as scheduled.
• Keeps the bulletin boards appealing and appropriate.
• Maintains classroom materials in an organized clean and accessible manner.
• Provides service excellence through courteous informed accessible and professional engagement.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Reports to: Director Little School

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

A high school diploma with previous experience working with young children. Must obtain a CDA or FCCPC within the first year of employment or be working toward an A.S. in Early Childhood.

Preferred: A.S. in Early Childhood with at least six (6) months of experience working with young children.

Additional Requirements: A criminal background check will be conducted.

General Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work successfully in a multicultural environment.
• Adaptability to Change able to be flexible and supportive able to positively and proactively assimilate change in rapid growth environment.
• Communication able to effectively communicate in a professional diplomatic empathetic and tactful manner using preferred method and level as applicable to the job.
• Ethics able to demonstrate integrity professionalism civility and a high degree of ethics in all jobrelated actions.
• Organization & Time Management able to plan schedule and organize tasks related to the job to achieve goals within or ahead of established time frames.
• Problem Solving proven skills in identifying issues determining their cause developing creative solutions and following through with implementing resolutions.
• Detail Oriented Proven accuracy and attention to detail.

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS) please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are reemployed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled suspended or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement.

Santa Fe College (SF) is committed to maintaining a work and educational environment that embraces diversity and where no member of the college community is excluded from participation in denied the benefits of or subject to discrimination in any college program or activity based on: their race ethnicity national origin color religion age disability sex pregnancy status gender identity sexual orientation marital status genetic information political opinions or affiliations or veteran status. This commitment applies to employees volunteers students and to the extent possible to third parties applicants for admission applicants for employment and the general public. regarding nondiscrimination policies or concerns about discrimination or harassment including concerns about sexual harassment or sexual violence under Title IX should be directed to:

Santa Fe College reserves the right to extend deadlines and/or not to offer advertised positions. Preference will be given to eligible veterans and spouses of veterans.