Position Responsibilities

Summary:

The Early Childhood Assistant provides support to the Early Childhood Lead Teacher. This job operates in a professional The Early Childhood Assistant provides support to the Early Childhood Lead Teacher. This job operates in a professional environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and scanners. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Essential Functions:

• Daily Preparation:
  • Prepare classroom for the daily activities and rhythm
• School Time Functions:
  • Prepare and oversee daily activities with children involvement
  • Attend to disruptive children and encourage appropriate social interaction
  • Supervise and ensure all children are safe and treated fairly by their peers
  • Assist children with bodily care needs
  • Help children participate in Lead Teacher led activities
  • Assist Lead Teacher where needed
  • Assume lead role when lead teacher is out of room or absent
• After School Functions:
  • Washing dishes and straightening toys and cubbies
  • Prepare class room for the next day’s activities
  • Inventory food items
  • Assist lead teacher with aspects of teaching that extend beyond the classroom: sorting artwork, completing crafts, shopping for supplies and various administrative work
• Mentorship:
  • Work with mentor in ongoing weekly sessions regarding class, children, child development, and planning
• Meetings:
  • Attend Section and Class meetings as requested by Lead Teacher

• Expected Hours of Work:
  • Refer to current school calendar for the Academic Year.
  • The school work calendar includes two weeks before and two weeks after the close of the academic year, or such time as the school deems necessary. Employee will work normal hours during work weeks, unless otherwise directed by the Lead Teacher.
  • Employee will work from 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., or as directed by the Lead Teacher. Fulfilling the conditions of employment will sometimes extend beyond regular school hours to include but not be limited to classroom preparation, meetings, school events and festivals.  As such, completion of these responsibilities is the standard for meeting or exceeding job requirements