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Infant Teacher

Learn & Discover Playschool
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/3/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits :

  • Professional Development Assistance
  • Employee discounts
  • Paid time off
  • Tuition assistance

We are looking for a nurturing infant teacher to ensure that the basic and educational needs of our students are met. As an infant teacher, you will be required to prepare and deliver classroom activities, communicate with staff and parents, and ensure that the learning environment remains safe at all times. You should also be an excellent role model for our students.

To be successful as a infant teacher, you should be creative, energetic, and able to encourage self-expression. Top candidates will possess a thorough understanding of the contextual factors that shape early childhood development.

Infant Teacher Responsibilities :

  • Planning and delivering lessons designed to facilitate students' social, emotional, and cognitive development.
  • Encouraging self-expression through understanding, flexibility, and behavioral reinforcement.
  • Tending to students' basic needs by feeding and dressing them.
  • Modelling appropriate behaviors, even when not on duty.
  • Ensuring that the classroom remains safe and conducive to learning at all times.
  • Liaising with families to gain insight into students' home lives.
  • Tracking and informing parents of students' progress.
  • Attending parent and staff meetings.
  • Infant Teacher Requirements :

  • 21 years of age or older
  • Clear criminal record.
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • 5 years experience working in licensed daycare facility or :
  • Certification options :
  • 1) Associate's (AA or AS) degree in early childhood education; or

    2) Child Development Associate (CDA) certification and a study plan leading to an associate's degree in early childhood education within seven years; or

    3) High school diploma or equivalent (GED); nine college credits in early childhood education or child development; two years experience caring for children, and a study plan leading to an associate's degree in early childhood education within seven years; or

    4) High school diploma or equivalent (GED); and a study plan that is acceptable to the Department leading to nine credits in early childhood education or childhood development within two years; and a study plan leading to an associate's degree in early childhood education within seven years, if currently employed in a permitted child care program.

  • Prior experience working with young children, preferably within a similar setting.
  • Physically fit and able to lift up to 70 pounds.
  • Warm, approachable disposition.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.
  • A passion for early childhood development.
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