What are the responsibilities and job description for the Early Childhood Educator position at HOME OF HOPE?
Job Description
About the Role:
We are seeking a dedicated and passionate individual to join our team as a Day Care Teacher. As a key member of our educational staff, you will play a vital role in creating a nurturing environment that fosters the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth of young children.
Responsibilities:
- Curriculum Development: Coordinate and implement educational curriculum by developing classroom activities based on developmentally appropriate practices and early learning standards.
- Leadership and Collaboration: Lead by example; encourage teaching team success through modeling and coaching.
- Communication with Parents: Maintain frequent communications with parents through informal discussions, progress reports, and parent-teacher conferences.
- Classroom Management: Ensure all center policies and state regulations are met, and maintain a healthy classroom environment – including maintaining appropriate hygiene and cleanliness standards and safety and security of children.
- Supervision and Support: Supervise teacher assistants and classroom volunteers to ensure they are following planned activities, hygiene, and safety standards.
- Record Keeping and Professional Development: Maintain accurate records, forms, and files, and maintain personal professional development plans to ensure continuous quality improvement.
Core Values:
- Clients-Centered Care: We are committed to making all decisions and performing all actions with the well-being of our clients as our primary focus, and to always putting our clients' interests ahead of our own.
- Accountability: We take personal responsibility, as an organization and as individuals, for our actions, hold each other accountable, and expect to be held accountable at any point throughout the year for our decisions and actions.
- Respect: While keeping the focus on the needs of our clients, we also commit to demonstrating mutual respect in communication and actions so that a positive environment for everyone is maintained.
- Excellence: We are committed to using established best practices, to evaluating effectiveness of our efforts, and to demonstrating a willingness to change current practices at any point based on evidence that change is needed.
