Preschool Lead Teacher

Ignite your desire to be the best!

Imagine an energy so positive, so powerful, it ignites your desire to be the best, inspires you to bring out the best in others, and fuels your aspiration to do the best work of your career.

At Legacy Traditional Schools we do things a special way, in a way that ignites our desire to be the best, illuminates our educators’ best talents, lights up the minds of our students, and fuels our school spirit. We shine the brightest when we raise our hands and rise to the challenge of changing lives through education, cultivating bright curious minds, achieving award-winning results, upholding our values, and engaging positively with our students, parents and communities.

Position Overview

The Preschool Lead Teacher provides a caring, safe, and well managed environment for children to participate in learning activities and imaginative play. The teacher provides instruction in basic skills such as color, shape, number and letter recognition as well as social skills. The Lead Teacher establishes clear objectives for all lessons, prepares, organizes, and leads instruction in all activities. The Lead Teacher will lead evaluation of children's academic performance and social development. The Lead teacher will communicate with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress. The Lead Teacher ensures enforcement of all district policies and rules regarding preschool program. The Lead teacher ensures meals and snacks are served in accordance with nutritional guidelines. Lead teacher will perform administrative duties such as attend staff meetings and professional development, prepare student progress reports, supervise and evaluate teacher assistants, and conduct inventory of equipment, materials, and supplies.

Essential Functions

• Plans, develops and implements age appropriate curriculum.
• Devise and impart lesson plans on a daily basis.
• Assists students, individually or in small groups, with lesson assignments (e.g. read stories, providing writing assistance, reinforce language skills, numbers, alphabet, computer learning programs, etc.) for the purpose of practicing and/or reinforcing learning concepts and assisting students in reaching academic goals and grade level standards.
• Adapts classroom activities, assignments and/or materials (e.g. art projects, computer, language skills, etc.) for the purpose of supporting and reinforcing classroom goals and objectives.
• Assist students during lunchtime, toileting and washing activities.
• Enforce cleanup activities after lunchtime by modeling appropriate behavior.
• Maintains classroom equipment, work area, and manual and electronic files and records (e.g. clean/bleach tables, sign-in/sign-out logs, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring availability of items; providing written reference; providing a safe learning environment; and/or meeting mandated requirements.
• Prepare instructional materials (e.g. laminating, making posters, making copies, bulletin boards, filing, newsletters, etc.).
• Provide an environment of comfort and security for young students by indulging in nurturing behavior.
• Reports observations and incidents relating to specific students (e.g. accidents, fights, appropriate and/or inappropriate social behavior, violations of rules, safety conditions, change in behavior, etc.) for the purpose of communicating information to appropriate instructional and/or administrative personnel.
• Maintain ongoing, open communication with parents/caregivers.
• Provide a classroom environment that encourages parent participation.
• Ensure that each family receives an opportunity to build strong relationships and experience clear communication with teacher staff.
• Liaison with children’s families to ensure smooth transition from home to school setting and transitions from classroom to classroom when needed.
• Assist families with children’s transitions from toddler to preschool and from preschool to kindergarten.
• Monitors individual and/or groups of students in a variety of settings (e.g. classroom, playground, etc.) for the purpose of providing a safe and positive learning environment.
• Ensures that Teacher Assistants are kept updated in all matters concerning the classroom and program, i.e. lead teacher meetings, lesson plans, policies and procedures, training received, etc.
• Provide functional training and guidance to staff, interns, substitutes and volunteers assigned to the classroom.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Education, Licensure, or Certification

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Food Handler’s Card/Certification.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a valid IVP Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card at all times.
• The incumbent in this position will be required to pass a criminal history background check.
• CPR and First Aid Certified.
• Present a recent (within 1 year) Negative TB test.
• 6 months experience or more working in an Early Childcare setting.  
  
  

Specialized Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Positively interact with all students.
• Create a safe learning environment that is conducive to learning.
• Capable of designing lesson plans to meet student needs and school & state requirements.
• Able to employ varied teaching strategies and best practices that effectively teaches the curriculum.
• Ability to identify individual student needs.
• Good communication skills with, students, coworkers, administration and parents.
• Ability to collaborate with other teachers and school staff.
• Ability to maintain flexible work schedule.
• Ability to maintain a professional appearance.
• Demonstrate a commitment to the teaching profession by utilizing resources for professional development therefore, improving the education that is provided.
• Must possess strong communication and organizational skills.
• Must have ability to interact positively with students, parents, teachers and administrators.
  
  

BACKGROUND CHECKS

• The incumbent in this position will be required to pass a criminal history background check.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a valid IVP Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card at all times.
  
  

Physical And Travel Requirements / Work Environment

• Travel between campuses is required from time to time.
• This position requires the need to lift objects (up to 25 pounds) on occasion.
• This position may require sitting for long periods at times, talking on the phone, standing, kneeling, stooping and long periods of concentration.
• Local and in-state travel required.
  
  

Enjoy The Benefits Of Being The Best

Education is not a spectator sport, so we encourage you work hard, learn, have fun and always do your best. If you raise your hand to accept the challenge of changing lives through education and give your very best to contribute to our students’ success, you’ll experience:

• our colorful school spirit
• a fulfilling career
• a culture of connection
• our spirit of tradition
• the benefits of being the best.
  
  

Hint: If asked in your interview how we ignite your desire to be the best, the answer is “All of the above”

Enjoy industry-leading pay, rewards, referral bonuses and paid time-off. Care for your health and your family with comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, discounted onsite childcare and student enrollment priority, even for part-time roles. Invest in your future with retirement plans - Arizona has 401(k) plans with 6% employer matching, Nevada participates in the Nevada State Retirement PERS and Texas participate in the Texas retirement TRS. Enhance your growth with promotion opportunities, training, mentoring and tuition reimbursement. Thrive in a welcoming, supportive and inclusive environment where we celebrate the diversity of our team and our communities and uphold our values to treat others with fairness, equality and respect as an equal opportunity employer.

Come be an educator with LTS

Every team member, from our support staff to our leadership team has knowledge to share, skills to teach, inspiration to offer, and a passion for helping others learn and perform their best, which is why we are proud to call all our employees educators.

Our smart, talented, diverse educators across Arizona, Nevada and Texas are working together to change lives through education and make our charter schools the best placeto learn, grow and work. Come be an educator at Legacy Traditional Schools and experience a positive collective energy so powerful, it ignites your desire to be the best! Ignite your career. Apply Today!