Head Start Teacher

General Description: To plan, coordinate, and implement a full-day preschool classroom that will provide children and families with comprehensive quality services that meet federal and state standards.

Essential Job Responsibilities and Performance Indicators:

·         Participates in all in-service training days, parent-teacher conferences, home visits, and required center-level meetings

·         Develop, coordinate, plan, prepare, and implement daily classroom group and individualized activities for children to ensure that the goals of children are met (i.e., weekly lesson plans).

·         Responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, orderly, and stimulating environment that promotes learning and meets children’s individual needs and interests, which ensures children achieve educational outcomes.

·         Ensure classroom compiles with licensing standards and regulations

·         Conduct observations, and make necessary referrals to the appropriate service area through the Center Manager.

·         Ensure that children are involved in personal hygiene, health, and  safety experiences daily (i.e., tooth brushing, toileting, hand washing)

·         Eat and converse with children during mealtime and encourage them in the development of good eating habits and social skills.

·         Be responsible for providing appropriate care for children with disabilities and attend IEP Meetings

·         Be responsible for tracking attendance, meal count, volunteer hours, in-kind contributions, child sign-in and sign-out sheets, health checks, child portfolios, assessments, and other information as necessary.

·         Conduct daily observations of children to track their educational and social gains and outcomes and record findings in the child’s portfolio

·         Monitor and maintain records and data to comply with required state and federal licensing and performance Standards and Program standards

·         Act as a bus monitor to ensure appropriate supervision of services and safe transportation occurs for children and adults, i.e., includes boarding and existing, emergency evacuation, securing of safety restraints, and proper child and adult behavior.

·         Ensure that supervision of children is appropriate at all times and follows the agency’s Corporal Punishment Guidelines maintained at all times.

·         Work with Family Service Specialists in coordinating and implementing activities and services for children and families (field trips, health, and medical visits, and others as they arise)

·         Ensure that communication with parents/guardians is positive and that it encourages parents to participate in the classroom, curriculum planning, and training.

·         Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications / Skills and Experience:

• BA Degree/Associate's in ECD or other related fields with required hours in ECD
• Minimum of three years experience in working with children, families, and the community preferred.
• Excellent reading, writing, and typing/computer/data entry skills.

·         Ability to pass background checks and health screening.

Salary : $20 - $21