Early Childhood Education Teacher

If you enjoy working with children and helping to provide a fun, safe and educational environment where you can make a difference, then this may be the position that you’ve been searching for. Our childcare center is in search of qualified educators to help monitor and lead activities throughout the day. Help kids engage in tasks and games designed to promote problem solving skills and cooperation, and assist them in working with others to resolve conflicts through age appropriate instruction. This job will help you develop excellent skills and techniques that can benefit you in both your personal life and in future careers in child development.

We are a holistically driven facility focused on learning through nature based play, and open ended conversations.

Requirements:

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Continuing education is required

Ability to operate basic technology

Criminal, FBI and Child Maltreatment background checks are performed and required

Child Development Associate or AA/BA degree in a child related field preferred, but not required.

Why apply?
-Competitive wages for experienced applicants
-Paid opportunities for annual professional development
-Incentives package after 12 months of employment including paid holidays, anniversary bonus, annual birthday present, referral bonus opportunities, CDA Scholarship program etc.
-Adult to child ratios per classroom are 1:5 or 1:8 at max daily capacity. Often times, ratios are less.
-Locally owned and operated
-Hours of availability must be 7am to 530pm Monday through Friday
-Part Time hours are available

Job Description – Classroom

Responsible for a group of children. Performs activities that ensure the health, safety, and progress for each child in the group. Reports to the Director.

Specifics Duties of the Job

• Provides for children’s care and protection: changes diaper, feeds each child, and ensures the cleanliness of each child in the group including but not limited to changing their clothes, attends to potty accidents, wiping faces and other body parts, and keeping them free of mucus or other excretions.

• Help children learn to adapt to, and cope with, real-life situations and to develop appropriate habits in such activities such as eating, dressing, napping and personal hygiene.

• Meets the emotional needs of each child: talks with, smiles at, and shows affection to each child.

• Satisfies the developmental needs of each child: reads to, plays with, and entertains and provides learning opportunities for each child and the group as a whole.

• Plans and executes special activities daily/curriculum. Plan, schedule and implement the daily program of appropriate developmental experiences for a classroom group of children.

• Maintain progress records on the emotional, physical, social and intellectual development of assigned children.

• Greets each parent/guardian and child daily, regardless of time of day (afternoon or evening).

• Gives children undivided attention, watching carefully for safety hazards.

• Make daily observations of the health of children, reporting conditions that require attention; administer first aid treatment.

• Cleans classroom at the end of each day (according to checklist).

• Completes a Daily Report for each child. (Daily Report outlines child’s care and needs)

• Respect the dignity and basic rights of each child.

• Respects the independence of each child and respects the child’s need to do things on their own.

• Communicates with parent/guardian concerning child’s progress.

• Participate in staff meetings, training sessions, conferences, workshops, and career development and professional activities.

• Ensure that equipment and materials are accessible, appropriate, and in good condition.

• Perform classroom-related maintenance duties.

• Perform related duties as assigned.

NO discipline is used with children under two years old —positive redirection, caring, and understanding only. Enforces Company discipline policy as outlined in Parent Handbook.

• Handle going outside in weather

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge and experience working with infants and toddlers

• Knowledge of safety issues concerning infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

• Knowledge of Company discipline policy.

• Knowledge of Company staff handbook policies.

• Skills in patience and compassion.

• Skills in time management.

• Skills in remaining calm under pressure.

• Verbal skills with children and parents.

• Ability to be flexible with child routines and schedules.

• Ability to capture ‘nurturing moments.’

• Ability to get along with co-workers, administrative staff and be a team member.

• Ability to unconditionally love and understand that no child should be left to cry or otherwise treated unfairly.

• Overall, ability to manage and control classroom environment and its everyday function.

• Ability to act professionally with children, parents/guardians, staff members and visitors.

• Must be friendly and personable

• Good communication skills is a must

• Team player (Team Principles)

• Able to work independently

• Receptive to positive and critical feedback

• Self-motivator

Physical Demands & Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; use hands and fingers, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch, or crawl and talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; sit and taste or smell.

• Requires heavy physical work; heavy lifting, pushing, or pulling required of objects up to 50 pounds. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Physical work is a primary part of job. This requirement is in order to adequately provide care for a child who may require lifting.

• Must be able to maneuver at least 500 feet at a time, without a sitting rest break, in order to travel to a person who would need quick assistance.

• Must be able to maneuver to/from standing and to/from floor and get up without assistance, adjusting to one’s tone and height, by bending or leaning, to adequately provide care and communicate with children and maneuver classroom spaces.

• Specific vision abilities required by depth perception and ability to adjust focus in order to perform documentation and supervision components of the job.

• Most days, employee will be working a portion of the day outside in temperatures ranging from 20F with wind chill to 90F. Temperature ranges may vary. Adequate clothing should be brought to work to provide comfort for the employee. (winter jacket, hat, gloves, boots, rain shields, sunglasses, sunscreen, etc.)

To be successful working as an Early Childcare Professional, you must be empathetic to all the children's needs in your room including emotional needs. Childcare Professionals should be caring and detail oriented. Childcare Professionals should be prepared to meet the physical demands of the classroom and have an understanding of childhood development. Most importantly, an Early Childhood Education should be passionate about children and making a positive impact in every child's life that walks through their doors.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $12.00 - $15.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

License/Certification:

• CPR Certification (Preferred)
• Child Development Associate Certification (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $12 - $15