Child Care Center Teacher

Compensation

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Responsibilities and Duties Include:

• Assists the Senior Child Care Center Teacher in planning and implementing weekly lesson plans centered on age appropriate developmental and educational goals.

• Utilizes 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 self-help skills and language skills.

• Facilitates child-to-child interactions with the goal of teaching and modeling problem solving skills and demonstrates appropriate and safe teacher-to-child interaction.

• Models and teaches empathy building impulse control and emotion management for children.

• Helps children gain self-control self-confidence and positive self-esteem 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.

• Informs the Senior Child Care Center Teacher of any concerns regarding children or parents and in conjunction with the Senior communicates with parents in both informal and formal meetings to discuss concerns when necessary.

• Participates in regularly scheduled staff professional development meetings.

• Keeps the bulletin boards appealing and appropriate for young children.

• 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required: A high school diploma with some 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.

Additional Requirements: A criminal background check will be conducted.

Preferred: A.S. in early childhood with at least six (6) months of experience working with children in an early learning center. Completion of DCF Child Care Facility Training Requirements.

General Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work successfully in a multi-cultural 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.

• Critical Thinking & Judgement - able to make well-reasoned sensible and timely decisions based on careful objective review and informed analysis of available information considerations and other factors.

• Customer Service ability to respond promptly and courteously to all questions from parents students and faculty demonstrating patience and persistence.

• Ethics able to demonstrate integrity professionalism civility and a high degree of ethics in all job-related 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.

• Relationship Management able to personally provide high level of interactive service to others building relationships and addressing identified needs.

• Results Orientation proven ability to set and exceed established targets.

• Detail Oriented - Proven accuracy and attention to detail.

• Multi-task - Ability to expeditiously organize coordinate manage prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously to swiftly assess a situation determine a logical course of action and apply the appropriate response.

Application Process: All applicants must submit a completed online SF employment application an up-to-date resume letter of intent and unofficial college transcripts (if applicable) to be considered for this position. Unofficial transcripts are only accepted for review purposes official transcripts are required prior to any offer of employment being made.

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